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- September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?
By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of...
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Workforce;
Independent Contractors;
Talent Management;
Silicon Valley;
Google;
Employee Attitude;
Employee Compensation;
Employee Engagement;
Future Of Work;
Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Inequality;
Talent Acquisition;
Labor;
Talent and Talent Management;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Employees;
Attitudes;
Innovation and Management;
Human Resources;
Equality and Inequality;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" Harvard Business School Case 820-048, September 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Donald M. Kendall PepsiCo, 1963–1986 Henry P. Kendall Kendall Company, 1912–1959 Donald S. Kennedy OGE Energy Corporation, 1949–1976 Arthur A. Kent Atwater Kent Company, 1902–1936 William F. Kerby Dow Jones & Company, 1966–1975 View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year after the investment. By way...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
saving... 10 May 2022 News HBS Working Knowledge Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay Re: William Kerr Working for yourself might bring freedom and autonomy, but it increasingly comes...
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- October 2009
- Article
Managing Risk in the New World
Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies...
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Forecasting and Prediction;
Financial Crisis;
Capital Structure;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Risk Management
Kaplan, Robert S., Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Jr. "Managing Risk in the New World." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009): 68–75.
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
02 Mar 2019 | Business Insider Axiom Business Book Awards 2019 Results 20 Feb 2019 | Axiom Business Book Awards Global Migration & Offshore Outsourcing William R. Kerr 19 Feb 2019 | Stanford Social...
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge
Popular Browse All Articles About Us Newsletter Sign-Up RSS Page 1 of 5,332 Results 11 Sep 2024 Managing the Future of Work Help Wanted: Workforce boards face greater demands and more strings Bill Kerr With legislative changes looming,...
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
society today. Friday, September 27 Dean’s Welcome Address 8:30–9:30 a.m. EDT Both livestreamed and recorded Speaker: Srikant Datar , Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend View Details
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Schedule - Commencement 2024
Schedule Schedule Anticipated schedule of events for Class Day & Commencement. Questions? Contact MBA Student & Academic Services: commencement@hbs.edu . May 21 Tuesday, May 21 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Commencement Honors Reception Spangler Center, View Details
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Research - U.S. Competitiveness
Research Dec 2019 Survey A Recovery Squandered By: Michael E. Porter , Jan W. Rivkin , Mihir A. Desai , Katherine M. Gehl , William R. Kerr , with Manjari Raman In 2019, HBS faculty members of the U.S....
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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
argues Mikołaj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by original research, data, and case studies from companies such as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. Prior to HBS, Miho worked in management consulting for Mickinsey in the Tokyo and New Jersey offices. As a former management consultant,...
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- July 2018
- Article
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Tina Xu
We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk...
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Entrepreneurs;
Venturing;
Personality Traits;
Characteristics;
Big-5;
Risk Attitudes;
Goals;
Skills;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Characteristics;
Goals and Objectives;
Competency and Skills;
Success;
Demographics;
Research
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Tina Xu. "Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature." Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship 14, no. 3 (July 2018): 279–356.
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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and...
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Global
The World of Higher Education Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China with William C. Kirby Re: William Kirby 12 Jun 2024 Economics Applied Podcast The Political...
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- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William View Details
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Carmen Nobel
Paul W. Marshall
MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the...
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Sean Silverthorne