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- 23 Feb 2022
- Podcast
MFW research: Rethinking low-wage work
What's the business case for upgrading low-wage, high-turnover jobs? Joe Fuller joins his Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host, Bill Kerr, to unpack the project's recent report, Building From the Bottom Up.
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- 20 Sep 2018
- Podcast
Ep 13: Work without borders: How digital platforms are transforming the way firms get things done
As the world gets smaller, the talent pools available to firms are getting much, much bigger. By bringing employers and workers together and solving key challenges of contracting at a distance, digital labor platforms are changing the way work is done. Professor Chris...
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- 31 Jul 2018
- Podcast
Ep 10: Collaborate in the classroom, compete on the grid
As regional utilities across the country faced a silver tsunami of retiring workers, they came together as an industry to develop a pipeline of middle skills workers like linesmen and technicians. From identifying critical roles and competencies to developing...
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- 25 Aug 2021
- Podcast
Coursera: From virtual lecture hall to platform for lifelong learning
Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer, Leah Belsky, on how online education is facilitating workforce development, mitigating Covid job losses, promoting diversity, transforming teaching, and enabling lifelong learning. She also discusses the company’s decisive shift to...
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- 28 Jul 2021
- Podcast
Veeva’s distributed approach to building institutional knowledge and shared culture
Life sciences cloud software company Veeva's origins as a highly decentralized organization and its early adoption of video conferencing paid off when Covid-19 forced the switch to remote work. The business was able to help speed up the vaccine pipeline. Co-founder and...
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- 11 Jul 2018
- Podcast
Ep 8: What can businesses learn from the present crisis of trust in tech?
Professor Sandra Sucher, an HBS faculty member who has studied trust in business for over a decade, discusses “techlash.” With customers, employees, and governments reacting to transgressions by some of the world’s largest companies, the importance of trust is more...
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- 05 May 2021
- Podcast
US plans for AI primacy
As the US vies with global AI rivals for technological and strategic advantage, where will it find the human brainpower and skilled labor to compete? Is the government prepared for the challenge? Artificial intelligence is crossing boundaries, transforming markets, and...
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- 03 Jun 2018
- Podcast
Ep 1: How Vodafone’s CEO is using AI to transform the way the company works
Vittorio Colao, CEO Vodafone, is bringing about sweeping change at one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. In a conversation with Bill Kerr, Colao shares the management challenge of using bots and advanced technology to transform activities like...
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- 04 Nov 2020
- Podcast
IBM P-TECH and SkillsBuild: Narrow the skills gap, broaden opportunity
Can public-private partnerships do the heavy lifting of workforce development while promoting upward mobility? And can they help underserved groups participate in a post-Covid recovery? IBM’s P-TECH high school STEM program works with community colleges and industry...
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- 13 Aug 2020
- Podcast
How Guild democratizes employer-sponsored education benefits
For many workers, company-sponsored education benefits are a perk that’s hard to translate from employee handbook to reality. Guild Education bridges this gap by aligning incentives— matching students with appropriate programs, having employers profitably front costs,...
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- August 2019 (Revised December 2022)
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Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections
Applegate, Lynda M. "Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections." Harvard Business School Case 820-031, August 2019. (Revised December 2022.)
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
the biggest challenges for organizations are to have the necessary competencies and resources to act upon inputs." Sowmia Gopinathan echoed this comment: " (the) downside is only where expectations of the customers are made high...
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- 11 May 2020
- News
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
place, organizations planning to hire full-time employees or interns in the coming year are reviewing their recruiting processes and seeking to innovate. For some, recruiting events once held in large hotel ballrooms or quaint coffee...
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- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
real results. Equity Audits The first step is to understand where your organization needs to improve so that time and money can be put behind the right efforts. Elizabeth Zwart (MBA 2023) recommended companies “explore, and then address,...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
2017 Harvard Startup Fair
Allston, MA Who Should Attend: This recruiting and educational event is geared toward for-profit and non-profit startup and entrepreneurship organizations in all industries. Who Will You Meet: Students from Harvard College, Harvard...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
Keith Hammonds (MBA 1986) is president and COO of the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit dedicated to helping journalists and news organizations focus in-depth reporting on solutions to critical civic issues and social problems. In...
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- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
diversity of geographies and experiences is easier said than done, George concedes, although he does highlight a few standouts, including Coca-Cola (which has had five non-American CEOs), Nestlé, Unilever, Siemens, IBM, and Novartis, among others. "Ultimately, a...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
and professor Josh Lerner draw on their extensive research on venture capital organizations to illuminate the workings of this important industry. In a series of interpretative essays, the book expands on common themes in research they...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Edmondson says that organizations...
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