Personnel policies

People won't speak up if they don't trust the process.

No doubt about it, the top managers in this fictitious case study agree, Wellington Associates is a great place to work. Analysts at the high-tech consulting...

You’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 […]

Health care organizations should consider benefits like temporary leaves, reduced hours, or workflow changes.

Economic hardship is making some companies reconsider their contributions.

Two of them don’t really work.

To become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts...

Research on common predictors, effective interventions, and strategies to support employees if a colleague dies by suicide.

More than 3,000 office workers at an oil and gas company in Oklahoma City have been telecommuting since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of them...

An experiment reveals how employees misinterpret company language.

Four ways to make everyone happier.

In 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 […]

The benefits of experiments are substantial.

Simply shifting costs won't work.

The hard questions about performance enhancement.

It can be hard for smaller firms to compete for top talent. But they might not have to.

It starts with rethinking paternity leave policies.

More than two decades have passed since affirmative action became law, thrusting the issue of racial diversity in the workplace into the open—and often into the crossfire. Today both government statistics and anecdotal evidence suggest that people of color make up a larger percentage of senior managers than at any point in the past. […]

Workers are more productive when they have more peace of mind.

From RFID chips to Fitbits.

Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely...

In late 1986, Merck revised its performance review and pay practices. The most important change was a shift from an absolute rating system to a forced-distribution...

Supplements the (A) case.

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....

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.

Reap the benefits of a diverse workforce. If you read nothing else on promoting diversity and realizing its benefits, read these 10 articles. We've combed...

Essence, the first magazine aimed at African-American women, was created by four, young, Black entrepreneurs in the aftermath of massive racial and political...

Two-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two companies with different national and corporate cultures regarding a possible joint venture....

Discusses the 1989 modified performance appraisal program by adding performance gradations and allowing for differences in employee rating distributions...

The members of the second generation of the Nguyen family have begun to enter the business. Each has entered at different times and for diverse reasons....

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...

Describes Lazard's situation in 2001, and supplies context for the subsequent negotiation between its Chairman and his hand-picked successor. In 2001...

PSS World Medical has grown rapidly since its founding in 1983, largely by acquisitions. It has recently had some trouble digesting a large acquisition,...

Supplements the (A) case.

How HR can lead. If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review...

The cases are used to introduce the concept of collective responsibility and leadership in team situations by applying the concept of Crew Resource Management...

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....

Consists of several vignettes and discussion points around issues of conflict in the workplace. Issues presented are differences of race, gender, nationality,...

Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a...

Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, (Japan's largest online retailer), is at the helm of an organization that is rapidly expanding into global markets....

People won't speak up if they don't trust the process.

No doubt about it, the top managers in this fictitious case study agree, Wellington Associates is a great place to work. Analysts at the high-tech consulting...

Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely...

You’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 […]

Health care organizations should consider benefits like temporary leaves, reduced hours, or workflow changes.

Economic hardship is making some companies reconsider their contributions.

Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives,...

Two of them don’t really work.

To become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts...

Research on common predictors, effective interventions, and strategies to support employees if a colleague dies by suicide.