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07 Nov 2023
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Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

preparing initially for the application and subsequently for the interview. Looking back on that experience, I wanted to serve in the AFAA as a resource for military members looking to make a pivot into the business world. Furthermore, I... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

various stages of their personal and professional lives. We aspire to connect you with each other, share with you the latest faculty research and innovative ideas from the field, and bring you together to work on solutions for our world’s... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

energy and cleantech landscape. This session will help you begin to discover the breadth of roles and job search options in these growing industries. Phillip Andrews, CPD’s sector lead for energy & cleantech, will moderate a panel of recent HBS alumni who will View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise View Details

04 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

Layne: Where do you start if you're a medium-sized company that doesn't have a lot of resources like the Apples or the Googles of the world? Ascarza: From our perspective, it's pretty clear: companies need to find the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

12 Sep 2023
What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

medium-sized, for-profit retailing organization. You have been asked to approve changes to the company’s orientation program that probably would not have crossed your desk several years ago. Your human resources group has proposed changes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

and marginal-cost options. The emphasis on short-term earnings per share as the primary driver of share price, and hence shareholder value creation, acts to restrict investments in innovative long-term... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

and on the external situation (e.g., a rise in cases), and communicate this to your employees. 3. If a solution works, share it. If a manager finds a remote/flex arrangement that works for one person on the team, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Sep 2013
What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

planning concepts such as SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis, the "five forces," growth share matrices, five-year plans, and an emphasis on core competencies of the firm may lead to competitive... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

March 29, 2021
Editorial

~Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost

By: A.V. Whillans

As organizations large and small face the twin challenges of increasingly strained budgets and burned out workforces, what can managers do to keep employees engaged—without breaking the bank? In this piece, the authors share new research on the power of symbolic awards... View Details

Keywords: Motivation; Psychology; Work; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Social Psychology

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

each other, to HBS and to ensure you are leveraging all the resources available to you to navigate your life and professional career. Forge New Connections to Each Other Forge New Connections to Each Other Build and deepen relationships... View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional performance and for learning activities. What has changed and what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Evaluation: Will the proposed plant improvements solve the company’s problems? Why or why not? Diagnosis: Why has output declined at the plant over the past year? Description: Walk us though the production facility—how is it organized? A CEO confronts a lack of... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

governance,” Rouen says, others with similar levels of cash did not share these characteristics. Firms with strong financial positions that weren’t committed to their workforces were just as likely to lay off staff as companies with... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Business History - Faculty & Research

technologies, enhancing established technologies, or reducing costs? While Lamprecht had to determine how to allocate the ZEISS Group’s resources to the different units including SMT, the new CEO of ZEISS SMT, Andreas Pecher, was to... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and... View Details

16 Aug 2016
First Look

August 16, 2016

these streams and offers human resource management researchers and professionals insights and approaches for helping diverse teams tackle complex problems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - The year in Review

an opportunity to hear firsthand the challenges companies face in their implementation, and share best practices and learnings from their initial efforts. OneTen Summit Highlights Exhibition at Baker Library Focused on Bubbles & Crashes... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

organization and how you have created solutions to such problems. 2014 Article Time, Money, and Morality By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior... View Details

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