Organizational Behavior

Does a Company’s Collapse Hurt Workers’ Careers?

Tristan L. Botelho

A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Tristan Botelho suggests that rank-and-file workers usually aren’t tainted by a brush with failure—but if their former employer was plagued by scandal, their careers do seem to suffer.

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Learning Through Experience

Leadership isn’t just what you know—it’s how you show up. Learning Through Experience is a Yale School of Management podcast hosted by Dr. Heidi Brooks. Each episode explores how leaders learn through the moments that matter: meetings, relationships, decisions, and dilemmas. Drawing on guests’ wisdom and questions from listeners, the show turns insight into practice and transforms life into a learning laboratory.

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  • Study: Men Seeking Career Advancement Are Favored for Flextime

    Victoria L. Brescoll

    Managers are most likely to grant flextime to men in high-status jobs who request it to pursue career development opportunities, according to a new study by Professor Victoria Brescoll. Women, regardless of their status within a firm or their reason, are less likely than high-status men to be granted a schedule change.

  • Can you lead from the middle of a big corporation?

    Kevin Thompson Britta Rendlen Paul Tepfenhart Anupam Bhargava

    Managers from four global companies talk about how they launched social and environmental innovations within massive organizations.

  • What's the Google approach to human capital?

    Laszlo Bock

    Google's success depends on sustaining both generative chaos and precision output. Laszlo Bock, who heads the internet giant's human resources function—which it calls "People Operations"—talks about how it encourages employees to participate in running the company and builds effective teams.

  • What was Polaroid thinking?

    Polaroid went from ubiquity to obsolescence as digital photography replaced the print. But as early as the 1960s, Polaroid had been doing research into digital imaging. Did mistaken assumptions keep the company from making the transition to the digital world?