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- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
newfound commitment to employee training resulted in E Ink University, with courses offered in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and project management. “We absolutely expect that others will figure out ways to... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
summaries of the working papers published by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2016: The Great Training Robbery There is a widely held... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
such as Marketing, Accounting, Finance, Foreign Trade, Industrial Management, Advertising and Publicity.” 11 The memorandum noted the cases would also be of value to General Electric for employee training... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I didn’t have any formal business training when I came to Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP) Executive... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
50 hand looms distributed to the region with training courses organized to teach the craft. The second phase will include more sophisticated weaving loom deliveries and the creation of more formalized workshops to allow for carpet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
service representatives to handle the majority of calls on their own, without transferring queries further down the line, it is evidence that the company places equal focus on its representatives (so-called "employee empowerment") as it does on its clients.... View Details
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Deborah A. Farrington
revenues is on its way to nearly $1 billion. The firm has grown from 40 employees to nearly 4000. And Farrington remains the lead director of the firm. Building on her success, Farrington has long been a vocal advocate and supporter of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
extremely open and solicit feedback from the employees closest to the action. I have lunch—one on one lunches—with employees at all levels of the company to really hear. I do that all the time. But that lets... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
matter of helping people see the prevalence and consequences of hunger as well as the possibilities of a solution." An HBS Leadership Fellow at Mercy Corps, Zeaske has also worked at Jumpstart, a language and literacy organization that View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- Web
Video Management Policy | About
support of campus security, HBS Security maintains a 24/7 Security Operations Center with live video monitoring to support the security environment on campus. Supervisory level employees have full access to duration of video playback for... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne