By Ryan W. Buell, a professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. A traumatic discontinuity like the Covid-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to reconnect — with family, friends, co-workers and even ourselves — on new terms. For businesses, this moment provides a chance to reimagine the role employees play…
By Kyle Jensen, a senior lecturer and associate dean at the Yale School of Management, Tom Byers, a professor and chair in entrepreneurship at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, Laura Dunham, an associate dean of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship and chair of the entrepreneurship department at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of…
By Miles Everson, chief executive officer at MBO Partners, and Emergent Research’s Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. In the months since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the dramatic and rapid shift to remote work has been perhaps the most potent trend affecting the way businesses operate. It’s been a particular boon to one growing group of…
By Kenneth P. Pucker, a senior lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and advisory director at Berkshire Partners. Over the past 20 years many academics, consultants, executives and nongovernmental organization leaders have promoted a theory outlining how businesses can prosper while pursuing a greener and…
By David Michels, a partner in Bain & Company’s Tokyo office who leads the global change management and implementation practice, and Kevin Murphy, a partner in Bain’s Washington, D.C., office who leads the co-creation center of excellence. We talk to executives all the time, and no matter how we start out, we always end up…
By Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. A little over a year ago, Syracuse University flew me all the way from Colorado to give a talk on climate change, and not a single graduate student showed up. I asked my host professor why. He told me that the students think capitalism…
Leslie K. John is a Marvin Bower associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Her article is republished here with permission as part of our licensing program. We welcome your comments below. We know that success at work depends on being — and being seen as — both competent and likable. You need…
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