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. Our aim was to see how both law and culture affect how companies think about purpose and long-term thinking.

Short-term 9

Short-term Company Hofstede Long-term 9

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.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Yet, when her CEO enters the room specifically to seek feedback in her area of expertise, I once again watch her shrink from being a bright, outgoing creative professional to a subordinate who speaks in carefully couched, formal terms. Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." Maybe a little.

Power 14

Power Hofstede Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Research has long shown that cultural values are deeply rooted and that immigrants to the U.S. 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. For instance, U.S.

Banking 10

Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 10