How Do Leaders Advance Sustainability in Complex Organizations?
The executive tasked with advancing sustainability in a large company or organization has a mandate that encompasses the whole organization and often reaches external stakeholders, such as suppliers....
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Can Low-Hanging Fruit Drive Earnings Growth?
Q: In your book, you offer 77 individual ideas to improve productivity and profits. Can you describe the philosophy that lies behind your many suggestions? Lew Platt, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard,...
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Do Organizations Implement the Best Crowdsourced Ideas?
Organizations use crowdsourcing to solicit external audiences for new ideas, but which of those ideas do they actually implement? As a part of EMST’s Knowledge series, Professor Linus Dahlander...
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Three Questions: Prof. Marissa King on How the Opioid Epidemic Spreads
Is it useful to think of the prescription drug abuse crisis as an epidemic? Thinking of prescription drug abuse as an epidemic is helpful in two regards. First, the word “epidemic” carries with it a...
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Can Better Teamwork Save Lives?
Making teams work well together is a challenge in any workplace. In a healthcare setting, miscommunication, clashing personalities, or uncertainty about responsibilities can lead not just to increased...
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The Agony and Ecstasy of the Gig Economy
By Roberta Kwok When we think about work, we usually picture office employees or factory workers clocking in and out of their jobs. But many people are no longer tethered to an organization. By one...
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Three Questions: Prof. Marissa King on the Cost of Loneliness
What’s the impact of loneliness in the workplace? Is there a loneliness “epidemic” as Vivek Murthy ’03, the 19th U.S. surgeon general, wrote in Harvard Business Review? Or are we just now identifying...
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Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Amazon’s New Minimum Wage
Is a $15 minimum wage enough for Amazon employees to be financially secure? No. For a full-time employee, $15 an hour works out to $31,200 annually, which definitely does not provide financial...
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For U.S. Army, Improving Mental Health Care Meant Breaking Down Barriers...
By Jyoti Madhusoodanan Long deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have contributed to an increase in mental health issues in the U.S. military, with many soldiers struggling to cope with post-traumatic...
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Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Why Performance Reviews Aren’t Working
Are annual performance reviews valuable? More and more organizations, across a wide variety of industries, are concluding that annual performance reviews are not very helpful. Annual reviews are too...
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Faculty Viewpoints: The Evolving Workplace
By Dylan Walsh Eighteen months ago, roughly 6% of Americans reported that they usually worked from home. Today, about half of all Americans do. COVID-19 has changed one of the basic (if somewhat...
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Faculty Viewpoints: A Global View
By Dylan Walsh Three months have elapsed, and three million cases been confirmed, since COVID-19 seized headlines around the world. We have started to grow accustomed to the strange new vocabulary of...
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Online and Off, We Are Drawn Toward Those with Similar Writing Styles
By Roberta Kwok We tend to become friends with those who are like us—for example, people with the same ethnic or religious background or a similar personality. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s...
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What Allies Should Know about Interracial Communication
What are the obstacles when it comes to interracial communication? Interracial interactions can be plagued by anxiety, tension, and discomfort. Stereotypes play a role. Research suggests that White...
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Can Better Teamwork Save Lives?btm25@yale.eduThu, 02/08/2018 - 10:14Research Marissa D. King Professor of Organizational Behavior HealthcareOrganizational BehaviorMaking teams work well together is a...
View ArticleThe Agony and Ecstasy of the Gig Economy
The Agony and Ecstasy of the Gig Economylt289@yale.eduTue, 02/20/2018 - 00:01Research Amy Wrzesniewski Michael H. Jordan Professor of Management Organizational BehaviorBy Roberta KwokWhen we think...
View ArticleThree Questions: Prof. Marissa King on the Cost of Loneliness
Three Questions: Prof. Marissa King on the Cost of Lonelinessbtm25@yale.eduTue, 05/22/2018 - 14:08Three Questions Marissa D. King Professor of Organizational Behavior LeadershipHealthcareOrganizational...
View ArticleThree Questions: Prof. James Baron on Amazon’s New Minimum Wage
Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Amazon’s New Minimum Wagebtm25@yale.eduThu, 11/29/2018 - 14:53Three Questions James N. Baron William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Competitive...
View ArticleFor U.S. Army, Improving Mental Health Care Meant Breaking Down Barriers...
For U.S. Army, Improving Mental Health Care Meant Breaking Down Barriers Between Teamsbtm25@yale.eduTue, 02/05/2019 - 12:15Video Julia DiBenigno Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior...
View ArticleThree Questions: Prof. James Baron on Why Performance Reviews Aren’t Working
Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Why Performance Reviews Aren’t Working btm25@yale.eduThu, 08/29/2019 - 14:28Three Questions James N. Baron William S. Beinecke Professor of Management...
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