Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Cross-cultural analysts like Geert Hofstede have said that the biggest difference between the Nordics and other countries are their highly 'feminine' vs 'masculine' values. The Nordic executive team (mostly men) I worked with this week were fascinated by the Hofstede research. Pragmatic indeed.

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Hofstede Cooper Leadership Styles Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." It has the highest power distance of any country in the world: a staggering 104 on the Hofstede comparative power distance index. When businesses fail to address issues of power, they remain vulnerable to failure. What makes it particularly relevant in Asia?

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Power Hofstede Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Geert Hofstede, in Cultures and Organizations , discusses five dimensions of national culture. Hofstede also points out that cultures vary in their acceptances of differences in power. One of them is whether a culture is more individualistic or collectivistic. Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries.

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Hofstede Objective Retail Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

To measure the short-term orientation of a country, we gathered information on the cultural dimensions of the sample countries using information from Geert Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture.

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Short-term Hofstede Company Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Geert Hofstede, the author of the pioneering book Culture’s Consequences , makes that point when he talks about how his Dutch modesty failed to win him the job he wanted with an American firm.)

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Hofstede Charisma Seminar Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

In particular, we looked at how different countries compared on 16 cultural values developed by psychologists Geert Hofstede and Shalom Schwartz, the GLOBE Project , and the World Values Survey. We tried to answer this by identifying the cultural values that prevailed in these ancestral countries.

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Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

For example, the Dutch social psychologist, Geert Hofstede outlined a number of dimensions that highlight ways that cultures differ. This information was valuable when having conversations with people so I didn’t assume people were disagreeing with me when in fact they were agreeing.

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Globalization Team Hofstede Meyer 8