The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture

How to manage the eight critical elements of organizational life by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price and J. Yo-Jud Cheng

From the Magazine (January–February 2018)

Summary.

Strategy and culture are among the primary levers at top leaders’ disposal in their never-ending quest to maintain organizational viability and effectiveness. Strategy offers a formal logic for the company’s goals and orients people around them. Culture expresses goals through values and beliefs and guides activity through shared assumptions and group norms.

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A version of this article appeared in the January–February 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate at the school’s Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. He is the coauthor, with Colleen Ammerman, of Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021).

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Jeremiah Lee leads a people and organizational analytics unit at Oliver Wyman. Formerly at Spencer Stuart, he and Jesse Price are cofounders of two culture-related businesses.

Jesse Price leads a people and organizational analytics at Oliver Wyman. Formerly at Spencer Stuart, he and Jeremiah Lee are cofounders of two culture-related businesses.

J. Yo-Jud Cheng is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

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The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture

Summary.

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