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How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Health and wellness Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
Unconscious Bias Training That Works
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts... -
Be a Better Ally
Managerial behavior Magazine ArticleHow white men can help their marginalized colleagues advance -
When You Need to Take Time Off Work for Mental Health Reasons
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnd how to get back into the swing of things afterward. -
Making Exit Interviews Count
Managing people Magazine ArticleThis underused practice can be a powerful tool for retention. -
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany White people deny the existence of racism against people of color because they assume that racism is defined by deliberate actions motivated by malice... -
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTrans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility from others, and pressure to "manage" their identities in social settings, including... -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire
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Compensation and Benefits for Startup Companies
Compensation and benefits Magazine ArticleYou’ve decided to start a company. Your business plan is based on sound strategy and thorough market research. Your background and training have prepared you for the challenge. Now you must assemble the quality management team that venture investors demand. So you begin the search for a topflight engineer to head product development and a […] -
The CEO of Anglo American on Getting Serious About Safety
Operations strategy Magazine ArticlePhotography: Getty Images The Idea: Mining involves risk, and some executives believe fatalities are inevitable. But after nearly 200 on-the-job deaths in the five years prior to her arrival, Carroll decided to take a public stand to create safer working conditions. When I became the CEO of Anglo American, in 2007, I encountered plenty of […] -
To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA hot labor market is limiting employers' ability to shift more costs to their workers. -
The New Rules of Work Clothes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePeople's tolerance for discomfort - and conformity - has changed. -
Why It's So Hard to Change People's Commuting Behavior
Organizational Development ResearchIt'll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research. -
How Employers Are Fixing Health Care
Health and behavioral science Big IdeaWalmart has embraced a new approach to improve the quality of care and lower costs. The results have been dramatic. -
How Technology Brings Blind People into the Workplace
Technology and analytics Magazine ArticleIn these days of low unemployment, many corporate and other organizations find it necessary to track the whereabouts and profiles of underused sectors of the labor pool. One sector seldom tapped by business has an unemployment rate as high as 70%—even though the advent of new data-processing technology has opened a window of opportunity for […] -
Best Practices for Instant Messaging at Work
Business communication Digital ArticleCompanies need ground rules around communication tools like Slack. -
Recognize Your Biases
The first step to creating a diverse workplace is for people to reflect on their own preferences and prejudices. -
Quality Control in a Service Business
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn a service organization, quality control of employee attitudes and performance is comparable to product quality control in manufacturing. The Marriott... -
One Employee Went Freelance. Now Everyone Wants the Same Deal (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBlackbird, a Delhi-based advertising agency, agreed to let a star designer leave to start his own firm and then became his first customer, enlisting his...
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Go Beyond the Basics to Support Nursing Parents at Work
Personnel policies Digital ArticleAsking questions about the space you’ve designed for pumping is a good place to start. -
Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible — and Worth It
Business and society Digital ArticleToo many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work. -
Best Practices for Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleFive strategies to ensure your company is an age-friendly employer. -
Research: Flexible Work Is Having a Mixed Impact on Employee Well-Being and Productivity
Business management Digital ArticleTo be truly engaged, employees must thrive in both their personal and professional lives. -
Why Your Organization Should Use Salary Benchmarking
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleMarket data can drive fairer compensation and boost employee retention. -
How to Avoid the Unexpected Consequences of Your DEI Policy
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleResearch suggests taking a systems-level view of inequality. -
A New Approach to Writing Job Descriptions
Developing employees Digital ArticleIt’s time they reflect the flexibility and fluidity of modern day roles and responsibilities. -
How to be an Anti-Ableist Ally
Management VideoWhen your company envisions a "normal" employee or a "normal" customer, who do they see? And when does that definition of "normal" underscore an ableist... -
How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Health and wellness Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
5 Ways Leaders Can Support Adoptive Parents
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleHow employers do — or don’t — step up can have a major impact on employees and their families. -
Don’t Underestimate the Value of Employee Tenure
Business and society Digital ArticleResearch suggests it has a positive — and sizable — impact on firm performance. -
How Financial Accounting Screws Up HR
Talent management SpotlightIt distorts hiring, training, and benefits practices. -
Case Study: Should Some Employees Be Allowed to Work Remotely Even If Others Can’t?
Managing employees Magazine ArticleAn Oklahoma-based energy company grapples with its return-to-office plan. -
What Companies Get Wrong About Talent Management
Talent management Magazine ArticleThe all-too-common mistakes businesses make with recruiting, hiring, benefits, and job design—and how to avoid them -
What Companies Get Wrong About Talent Management
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBusinesses make all kinds of mistakes when it comes to recruiting, hiring, benefits, and job design. In fact, many common U.S. HR practices are downright... -
5 Things Employers Get Wrong About Caregivers at Work
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleMyth #1: School and childcare are back to normal. -
Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative?
Creativity Digital ArticleFrom Steve Jobs to Lady Gaga, the idea that weed boosts creativity has permeated pop culture. -
The New Rules of Work Clothes
Authenticity Digital ArticlePeople’s tolerance for discomfort — and conformity — has changed. -
Should You Tell a Prospective Employer About Your Caregiving Responsibilities?
Career planning Digital ArticleThree strategies to help you make the judgment call. -
How Unpredictable Schedules Widen the Gender Pay Gap
Gender Digital ArticleResearchers analyzed pay data for Massachusetts bus and train operators — who work at union-negotiated rates — and found women still took home 11% less than men.
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Pierre Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as deputy managing director to turn around the Russia subsidiary.... -
Shanghai Pharmaceuticals
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Shanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a... -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations across India. The hospital plans... -
Larson in Nigeria
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The vice-president of international operations must decide whether to continue to operate or abandon the company's Nigerian joint venture. Although the... -
Belmont Industries, Inc. (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
The Workparent Toolkit: Essential Support for Working Parents
You manage, coach, mentor, or are an ally to working parents--or you want to be. And you want to have impact: to truly help these hardworking men and... -
Guidant: Radiation Therapy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Describes a potential new approach to treating cardiac disease--radiation therapy. Guidant, a leading medical device maker, faces a choice about whether... -
Edward Lewis: Essence Magazine
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Essence, the first magazine aimed at African-American women, was created by four, young, Black entrepreneurs in the aftermath of massive racial and political... -
Management of International Staff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Over the last few decades, Western multinational corporations (MNCs) have shifted their focus beyond the industrialized world, attempting to capitalize... -
Race, Justice, and the Jury System in Postbellum Virginia
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In December 1877, an all-white grand jury in Patrick County, Virginia, indicted two black teenagers, Lee and Burwell Reynolds, for killing a white man.... -
Chaircraft Corp. (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Discusses the purchase and installation of automated cutting equipment in a medium-sized furniture factory. The equipment has so far failed to cut costs... -
Advice for Working Dads (HBR Working Parents Series)
You can have a successful career and be the dad you want to be. Finally, we've moved past the days when providing for your family meant taking a backseat... -
Merck & Co., Inc. (A)
Organizational Development Case Study6.95View Details Merck & Co., Inc., a major pharmaceutical company, is in the process of reviewing and evaluating its personnel policies and practices. Employee interviews... -
Belmont Industries, Inc. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A new general manager has to propose a salary structure for the top 20 managers. His task is complicated as he learns about past performance, ambitions,... -
United Airlines 232
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The cases are used to introduce the concept of collective responsibility and leadership in team situations by applying the concept of Crew Resource Management... -
Jim Sawyer (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Jim Sawyer, 40, a manager at United Industries Plastics Division has exhibited signs of alcoholism. Personnel must now consider how the company should... -
Schon Klinik: Eating Disorder Care
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Schon Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market.... -
Note on Conflict Diamonds: Why Are Civil Wars, Like Diamonds, Forever?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Discusses the role of diamonds in Angola's civil war. -
GlaxoSmithKline in China (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 2013, Chinese investigators detained four GSK employees for allegedly bribing health care staff to sell GSK pharmaceuticals. A month later, GSK's Asia... -
Lazard LLC
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes Lazard's situation in 2001, and supplies context for the subsequent negotiation between its Chairman and his hand-picked successor. In 2001...
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How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Health and wellness Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
Unconscious Bias Training That Works
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts... -
Ask an Expert: How Do I Ask for Time Off in a New Job?
Organizational Development AdviceThere is no such thing as "earning" a break. -
Be a Better Ally
Managerial behavior Magazine ArticleHow white men can help their marginalized colleagues advance -
When You Need to Take Time Off Work for Mental Health Reasons
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnd how to get back into the swing of things afterward. -
Making Exit Interviews Count
Managing people Magazine ArticleThis underused practice can be a powerful tool for retention. -
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany White people deny the existence of racism against people of color because they assume that racism is defined by deliberate actions motivated by malice... -
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTrans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility from others, and pressure to "manage" their identities in social settings, including... -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire
Business management SpotlightAnd what to do about it