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- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
management control.” These comments help shape an interesting question about whether employees bring a renter’s bias to the job or whether that bias is fostered by leadership, incentives and compensation policies, organization, or other View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
harm as overt racism, Bazerman says. Even as most of us would agree that equality for all is good, tribalism can threaten our ability to do anything about it. “Biological and social factors pressure us to do more to try to alleviate the...
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- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by AnnaLee Saxenian that examines...
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by Julia Hanna
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
times," he observes. Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68), a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important to me. Through my business...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
Utku Ünver explain in a paper, factors such as contracts, control of stadiums, and corporate sponsorship effectively tied the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) into a system of early matching of teams....
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS research associate Melissa Ouellet. The study began by asking what View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
less in their first jobs even when differences in job level were taken into account, and didn’t catch up on either front throughout their careers. These findings still held true when we controlled for factors such as industry, pre-MBA...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
also been collecting quantitative data from companies to determine the effects of diversity and a more inclusive culture on performance. There are many question marks. For example, under what conditions would you expect diversity to have a positive effect on...
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- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth
learn more about leadership, managing human capital, and strategy to complement my analytical background,” Furuseth notes. “While at HBS I took as many courses as I could on leadership and organizational behavior.” Another key View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
economy running at near peak efficiency because of the factors you mention? ... A new economy would have new governing rules, but I don’t see new rules taking hold today. Now, having a factory full of AI machines that learn and robot...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
Factors line of human resources software, including the ability to flag job descriptions for potentially biased language. The course’s guest speakers also included the CEOs of startups Applied Ltd. and...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
American employees, firms, and the broader economy. Related to this, the big factor in work that’s going to be a management and policy challenge other than technology is the changing demographics of the workforce in almost all of the...
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Dafna Bearson
Doctoral candidate Dafna Bearson’s (she/her) interests lie at the intersection of technology, human capital, and business strategy. “How do businesses adjust in the face of new technologies? Why might similar businesses make different...
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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent of the global workforce would consider leaving their jobs this year. Several...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action....
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
something new, which shows that you can’t create a computerized system with all the answers, not yet. There are human factors and emotions involved beyond the probability statistics. But that’s what makes...
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
If you happen to be in need of human cadavers, you'll have more success targeting married nursery school teachers than, say, married cowboys or firefighters. That's essentially the implication of a new study that explores a previously...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars,...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
religion, was a key factor in his decision to enter the ministry. “West spoke eloquently about what communities needed to be, not just what they needed to do,” says Lim, who received an M.Div. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1995...
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