Social Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
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Jieliang Phone Home! (C)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria

At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China

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18 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

everyone into the mainstream banking system, the authors suggest. “A blanket push for people to become banked is maybe not the policy response that is going to be the most effective for helping these consumers,” Williams says. Related reading from the Working Knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Career Networking - Alumni

Circles are designed to foster genuine relationships between alumnae, and give women the opportunity to learn from, support and inspire one another – both personally and professionally. Reunions Reconnect with classmates, participate in faculty sessions and View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

is attracting increasing attention, and when business leaders are increasingly expected to contribute not only to financial value creation, but also to social value creation. In this context, it is important to prepare business school... View Details

16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

audit teams are all-male, and when the audits were paid for by the supplier instead of by the buyer. We describe implications for firms relying on social auditors and for auditing firms. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 35-40 Hours Download full syllabus 1 hrs Prework 360° Emotional and Social Competency Inventory In the first two weeks after the course start date, complete... View Details

15 Aug 2022
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University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

at least from its public institutions, China has shown an unmatched ambition to build more of the best, ‘world-class’ universities than anyone else. To this effort it has mobilized both state and private resources, and it has at hand more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

23 May 2019
News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

homelessness, to promoting health. “We work to unite uncommon partners around the common goal of serving society,” she explains. Under Palandjian’s leadership, Social Finance has advanced historic federal legislation and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

January – February 2012
Article

How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication

By: Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley and Elizabeth M. Gerber

Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Media; Information; Groups and Teams; Projects; Management Style; Power and Influence; Motivation and Incentives; Technology

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25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

develop, and integrate smart minds governs how prosperous you will be.” Studies on whether immigrants to the United States take jobs away from Americans or constitute a drain on social welfare are mixed, says Kerr, with some research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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Your Alumni Community - Alumni

between alumnae, and give women the opportunity to learn from, support and inspire one another – both personally and professionally. Reunions Reconnect with classmates, participate in faculty sessions and socialize with friends. Explore... View Details

26 Jun 2020
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Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

soon after the earthquake hit: “If help is needed, then help. Don’t worry about profits.” Kigawa, who believed it was Yamato’s social mission to restore services as quickly as possible, managed to resume deliveries 10 days after the earth... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Florida. Mr. Dauten has been active with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (past board chair), School District #29 (past president), Ascension Church (past president), and the Metropolitan Planning Council (past board nember). He is... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can protect the planet’s soil—one garden at a time... View Details

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

infrastructure, input availability, and the like. The active engagement of corporations is essential to mobilizing these elements. new stakeholder roles & relationships Government and NGOs are facing limited resources and difficulty in... View Details

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

on a number of products and services including health insurance plans, generic versus brand drug choices, copays and medication use, mobile phone plan choices, and even better methods for farming seaweed. “If you’re thinking about using... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes,... View Details

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

working-class women about diminished possibilities for their husbands and sons to provide for their families. Many supporters’ families work in blue-collar occupations such as construction, transportation, and infrastructure; live in low View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

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