Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2025

While backlash to DEI has challenged how many companies and practitioners approach creating more equitable workplaces, fewer have considered whether DEI work itself has room to improve.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2024

Many companies build cultures that are focused on controlling the output of low performers, rather than growing and unlocking everyone’s skills. This approach is low-ROI and ultimately problematic for high-performance cultures.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2024

Although cultural change generally requires human intervention, it appears that new technology — especially a new technology like generative AI that captures human imaginations — can play a role in catalyzing a data-oriented culture.

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Survey Data Company Education 248

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Many efforts to build an AI ethics program miss an important fact: ethics differ from one cultural context to the next. To address this problem, companies need to develop a contextual global AI ethics model that prioritizes collaboration with local teams and stakeholders and devolves decision-making authority to those local teams.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2023

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

Company 252

Company Talent Survey Interviews 252

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Leaders who listen well create company cultures where people feel heard, valued, and engaged. In addition, employees who experience high-quality listening report greater levels of job satisfaction and psychological safety.

Culture 207

Culture Report Company Management 207

Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Company culture is at its most pronounced state in the cofounding pair. With nothing to serve as a buffer between the two different personalities, it is a culture that either works or doesn’t. Building The Ideal Company Culture With HR Consultants Erin Mies & Kristen Ireland: Podcast #163 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Culture Company Consulting 165

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2023

Retaliation — in all its forms — not only harms current team members, but a culture that tolerates retaliation results in harm to the mission and the organization’s ability to deliver to its customers and stakeholders.

Culture 183

Culture Company Leadership Management 183

Clarity Consultants

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations that foster a learning culture gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Companies can enhance employee engagement, attract top talent, and drive innovation by prioritizing professional growth and creating an environment that encourages continuous learning.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The concept extends beyond technical skills to include cultural fit and alignment with organizational values. An employee who resonates with the company’s culture and values is more engaged and motivated, further enhancing productivity. This requires robust HR practices and a deep understanding of organizational culture.

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Analysis Culture Efficiency Training 195

Clarity Consultants

MARCH 23, 2023

As a result, companies need to find clear pathways to boosting employee retention. One arena that deserves increasing focus is company culture, which substantially impacts the employee experience and an employer’s reputation. Here’s a look at how having a great company culture can improve employee retention.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 5, 2022

Today, companies are facing a slew of new challenges. Along with competitive compensation, a positive, supportive culture featuring a diverse workforce is increasingly viewed as essential. In order to promote growth and support productivity, companies need to update their leadership training to address the challenges of today.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public company boards are typically focused on oversight, supporting the management team while keeping a respectful distance from day-to-day operations. In contrast, boards of companies owned by private equity tend to be much more hands-on.

Company 242

Company Operations Culture Strategy 242

LSA Global

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What Has the Greatest Impact on Organizational Culture? Our organizational alignment research found that cultural factors account for 40% of the difference between high and low growth companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, leadership effectiveness, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.

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Culture Leadership Construction Training 68

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A top-down approach doesn’t work anymore.

Culture 172

Culture Company 172

Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Manufacturing companies continually seek ways to improve their processes, optimize costs, and increase competitiveness. Production management helps make sure that a manufacturing company creates the required products of high quality, in the required quantities, and at the right time. Promote a Safety Culture. Process control.

Operations 204

Operations Management Efficiency Resources 204

Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2024

Sponsor content from Workhuman.

Culture 240

Culture Company Resources Management 240

Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2024

Leaders who are exploring how AI might fit into their business operations must not only navigate a vast and ever-changing landscape of tools, but they must also facilitate a significant cultural shift within their organizations. But research shows that leaders do not fully understand their employees’ use of, and readiness for, AI.

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Research Company Culture Tools 251

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Lack of speed has been troubling companies for decades. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it.

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Company Data Marketing How To 250

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 1, 2022

At Stanford, the one class I disliked the most was called “Cultures, Ideas and Values.” I’ve been thinking a lot about culture lately and how much it pervades so many aspects of human life. Let me define what I mean by culture first (as my definition is more narrow than those of my former professors).

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Culture Company System Study 116

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In turbulent times, companies need a reliable anchor to guide decision-making. Second, treat purpose as an organizing principle that guides company structure, strategy, and culture. Three strategies can help. First, tell a big story about what your organization believes in and what it is trying to accomplish.

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Company Leadership Culture Strategy 190

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2024

While DEI has faced significant backlash in the last year, companies across industries are still looking for ways to build healthy, inclusive workplace cultures where everyone can do their best work. New data at shows that even during this year of backlash, companies continued to make progress on many of their DEI initiatives.

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Company Culture Data Industry 179

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2024

But recent research at a food processing company in Colombia outlines some stumbling blocks companies might face when trying to change their structure. Specifically, the researchers and company CEO highlight a series of structural and people dynamics leaders should look out for in their own efforts.

Company 251

Company Agile Research Culture 251

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2020

Three ways leaders can adapt.

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Culture Company 172

Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Here's 20 questions to help you uncover your client's true culture and politics (and I promise you - it's not what's posted on the organizational chart or the values hanging in the break room!). DEFINING THE REAL CORPORATE CULTURE. Are they what the company lives by? What are the stated values? Who are the organizations heroes?

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Culture Exercises System Talent 213

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 31, 2024

To thrive in this environment, companies must foster a culture that embraces change, making it palatable, acceptable, and even exciting for employees. This episode […] The post Episode 28: Building a Culture of Change appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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Culture Marketing Company Organizational Development 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Before you launch your next growth initiative, make sure you’re not sabotaging your employees, and your company in turn. All organizations need a business growth strategy where people feel they’re prioritized. This article offers five questions to ask yourself as you’re setting your own growth strategy.

Company 252

Company Trends Research Strategy 252

Effective Managers

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Attend company events, participate in professional groups, and connect with colleagues from different departments. Observe and Learn Pay close attention to the organizational culture and political landscape. Build Strong Relationships Building strong relationships is foundational for navigating organizational politics.

Emotional Intelligence 222

Emotional Intelligence Ethics Construction Leadership 222

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To fix that, companies should write core values that stand apart, using literary techniques (such as alliteration or rhyme), short and simple phrases, or unusual words that will stick in employees’ memories. Too many statements of corporate values are generic business cliches. Is it any wonder few employees can actually remember them?

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Company How To Culture Management 247

Clarity Consultants

MARCH 11, 2021

Your onboarding process is a fundamental part of your company’s culture. The post Onboarding Is a Part of Your Company’s Culture Now – Here’s How to Nail It appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development. Failing to meet new hire expectations can be incredibly damaging.

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Culture How To Training Training 182

Clarity Consultants

JUNE 28, 2023

Fostering a culture of continuous learning within organizations boosts employee engagement and satisfaction and fuels innovation, growth, and long-term success. Explore the importance of continuous learning in the corporate world and uncover strategies for companies to encourage skill development among their workforce.

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Development Strategy Strategy Strategy& 290

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2023

employees are caregivers, in order to have a productive and sustainable workforce, companies must create the infrastructure to support them. Given these shortcomings and the fact that 73% of U.S.

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Research Company Policies Culture 172

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Over the past 30 years they’ve invented a new way of running companies, what author Andrew McAfee calls the “Geek Way.” Companies that resist this recipe risk being left behind. Silicon Valley firms don’t just create technology.

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Company Agile Culture Management 220

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To find and make the most of this talent, companies need to be good at five disciplines: strategic hiring, zero tolerance for people who violate their ethics, a focus on potential, alignment of HR processes, and values-based succession at the top.

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Talent Ethics Company Culture 246

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2024

It used to be thought that globalization would flatten out cultural differences among countries and regions of the world, making it easier than ever for companies to move into foreign markets.

Marketing 232

Marketing Culture Study Leadership 232

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2023

A survey of more than 2,000 transgender and gender nonconforming employees in eight countries offers insight into how employers can build more inclusive cultures.

Company 178

Company Survey Culture Groups 178

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2023

A culture that embraces change can create new opportunities for employees and organizations.

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Company Culture Recruiting Recruitment 183