Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But culturally, it might be time for a purge,” Cam continued. ” “It’s not the people who are toxic,” Joss said, “it’s the culture.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

From childhood fairy tales to business case studies, stories shape our understanding of the world. When instructional design consulting professionals align stories with organizational goals, they foster a learning culture that promotes innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Read the full case study here 2.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Indeed, the human factor — people and culture — will drive the adoption of AI, or lack thereof. As with any aspect of digital transformation, the effective deployment of generative AI will depend less on technological capability than on human adaptability.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

Culturally diverse teams, research shows , can help deliver better outcomes in today’s organizations. When managers don’t know how to spot and address these situations, cultural diversity may actually inhibit a team’s creative performance. Who are these cultural brokers? Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

Relationship-heavy cultures are marked by inclusion, personal connection, and relationship-based decision making. First, studies have shown that women are more likely to care for the collective , which means they are more likely to step in when they see a gap or ambiguity. They tend to be friendly, warm places to work.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a Bersin report pointed out: “The single biggest driver of business impact is the strength of an organization’s learning culture.” Here are four science-based recommendations to help you create a learning culture on your team or in your organization: Reward continuous learning. ” You and Your Team Series.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 1, 2022

At Stanford, the one class I disliked the most was called “Cultures, Ideas and Values.” At the time, I thought there was little value in studying these topics and especially in studying what happened around these topics hundreds and thousands of years ago. This is what the culture values. This is what the culture values.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Body language varies significantly across cultures. But what remains consistent across all known cultures are microexpressions. People might try to hide or obscure them in different ways informed by culture, but to a practiced reader the true emotions are always visible. Working Across Cultures. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Effective Managers

JANUARY 14, 2021

With that in mind, we wanted to talk more about accountability and how you can create a culture of accountability at your organization. The Importance of Having a Culture of Accountability at Work. A culture of accountability can create positivity, engagement, and productivity among the workforce. But how do you build it?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

The goal of the study was to measure the level of workplace belonging reported, the top belonging contributors and detractors, and to identify recommendations to increase it. Peers and coworkers were reported as the highest contributors to belonging, and organizational culture was reported as the top detractor.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2024

The study recommends encouraging broad employee participation in CSR and fostering a culture that values CSR’s long-term business benefits. Conversely, companies that rely on standardized, inflexible CSR methods often fail to achieve their goals, demonstrated by a failed partnership due to local corruption in another mining company.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I believe it is impossible to have complete transparency with patients without first developing a strong culture of internal transparency — among all team members, at all levels, on all issues — throughout the health care organization itself. A culture of internal transparency does not come about overnight.

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UPD Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the beginning, Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) has been crucial in this mission, not from a moral stance, but because, over and over, studies have shown investment in ADEI leads to better performance outcomes for companies and organizations. Is ADEI just the latest victim of America’s ever-expanding culture war?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A recent study highlighted the importance of a culture that emphasizes everyone’s ability to make choices.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Stories like this one about Nike’s toxic workplace culture remind us that speaking up about injustice and being heard in an organization can create positive change. In one study, participants were either alone or with a passive bystander. The more costly intervening would be, the less likely we are to do so.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2023

Toxic norms and cultures are among the hardest workplace issues to deal with. Study after study shows that these kinds of cultures drive attrition. They can make people question their values and competence and even wonder if quitting is their only option. Other people make or break our experiences at work.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2021

However, blaming doesn't create an effective culture. That's why it's worth discussing the role congruence plays in your culture. What Role Does Congruence Play in Your Culture? I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. The teams are stretched too thin.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Though we find convincing evidence in favor of the situational perspective for why employees do or don’t speak up, our study has its limitations. For instance, it was conducted in East Asia, where people ascribe to cultural value of collectivism and social norms might play a stronger role than in the more individualist West.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

One study done by the consulting firm, RHR International, showed that among high-performing leadership teams, 93% are able to prioritize the most important issues and 96% focus on the right issues. They set meeting agendas haphazardly, frequently only days beforehand (if at all). Their conversations veer off topic, often into minutia.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Over the last several years, the author has studied this in several ways — first as CEO of Best Buy, and since then by studying and working with multiple companies and their leaders on their journeys to put purpose to work and unleash what he calls “human magic.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It’s the most powerful driver of consumer and employee behavior — and yet, businesses don’t study it or have a strategy to harness it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2023

To answer this question, the authors studied 12 companies that were employing various industry-specific strategies and found that those that successfully achieved the dual goals of purpose and profit did so by adopting what they call an “advocacy-based business model.”

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 17, 2023

A coaching culture is one that supports innovation, sparks insights, and energizes employees. Organizations with strong coaching cultures report revenue growth well above their industry peer group (51% compared with 38%) and significantly higher employee engagement (62% compared with 50%). What is a coaching culture?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

But five studies of workers in a variety of frontline jobs found that more is not always more when it comes to psychological safety. It is certainly important for people in some jobs to feel safe to speak up, make mistakes, take risks, or ask for help. They include jobs that involve creativity, learning, and exploration.

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Halo Psych

JANUARY 13, 2025

Break your goal down into smaller sub-goals A recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that found that by breaking down a commitment to volunteer 200 hours per year into smaller subgoals made it more likely people would stick with the goal. One study examined the impact of attending the gym with a friend.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2019

Deborah Ancona and Kate Isaacs, researchers at MIT Sloan School of Management, say many companies struggle to be nimble with a command-and-control leadership culture. They studied Xerox’s R&D outfit PARC and the materials science company W.L.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Project Management Case Studies by Harold Kerzner Studying your colleagues’ practical cases is an integral part of learning and professional development. Thanks to the case studies and practical tips, the edition will be useful for both beginners and experienced project managers.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

My coauthors and I explore this in detail as part of a study of how well 12,000 firms in 34 countries performed 18 core management practices. So, setting up collaborative cultures is another big thing I’ve been trying to focus on.” ” Management practices are an essential ingredient in building culture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Alison and Dan’s reading list for this episode: HBR: The Three Pillars of a Teaming Culture by Amy Edmondson — “When you join an unfamiliar team or start a challenging new project, self-protection is a natural ins tinct. So it takes conscious work to shift the culture.”

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Building A Business on Cross-Cultural Communications. It all came together during a conversation with a previous competitor.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Based on those conversations, I identified three environments that matter most to employees: cultural, technological, physical. For instance, compared with the other companies I studied, those that invested most heavily in employee experience were included 28 times as often among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 11.5

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

Census data confirms cultural diversity is growing faster than predicted, especially among Gen Z. A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

LLMs as Infinite Puzzle Solvers Imagine a puzzle master who has studied millions of jigsaw puzzles. Output will reflect the information as well as biases present in the training data, which can lead to responses that are inaccurate, a threat to public safety, culturally insensitive, or otherwise politically untenable.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

We conducted a meta-analysis of all available field experiments on leaders empowering subordinates – examining the results of 105 studies, which included data from more than 30,000 employees from 30 countries. We compared the effects of empowering leadership on employee task performance in Western and Eastern cultures.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Studies have shown class migrants who are CEOs have increased risk-taking sensibilities to propel them further up the corporate ladder, and class migrant U.S. Here are some examples of common workplace systems and processes that can get tainted by class-based bias: Hiring, Onboarding, and Culture Fit. What is culture fit?

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

To explore this idea further, we conducted a study with a midsize U.S.-based In our study, we split up a team of 10 people into a meditating group and a control group. This experiment corroborates previous studies and went a step further to see how the team as a whole was affected by a weekly mindfulness intervention and training.

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