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09 Mar 2022
Podcast

Iron Mountain's hybrid workforce transformation

How do you manage a digital transformation while steering a heavily frontline business through a pandemic? Iron Mountain CHRO Edward Greene explains how the 70-year-old records management company is developing talent internally and staffing up to enter new markets. View Details

15 Dec 2021
Podcast

SHRM’s Johnny C. Taylor Jr. on updating the HR playbook

How well is HR heeding its own advice to workers and reinventing itself to remain relevant and productive? Society for Human Resource Management president and CEO, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., on the importance of workplace culture, reskilling, and expanding the talent pool. View Details

01 Dec 2021
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Hubert Joly on humanizing the profit motive

Can businesses afford to see employees in terms other than unit labor cost? How do you factor the Golden Rule into a profit and loss statement? Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly explains how unlearning business orthodoxies helped him prove that a human-centered approach... View Details

03 Feb 2021
Podcast

MIT’s David Autor on engineering more equitable growth

MIT labor economist David Autor, co-chair of the Institute’s Task Force on the Work of the Future, discusses the initiative’s report, “The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines.” Describing the report as both optimistic and... View Details

03 Jun 2018
Podcast

Ep 2: What smart employers are doing to prevent degree inflation

HBS professor Joe Fuller’s latest research Dismissed by Degrees shows that when companies start asking for a four-year college degree for jobs that previously did not require one, they not only reduce opportunities for workers but also restrict their ability to attract... View Details

20 Jan 2021
Podcast

Safely unleashing the power of industrial robots

The idea of uncaging industrial robots may seem like a Hollywood trope, but it refers to technology that allows manufacturers to choreograph more precise and productive interplay between robots and workers. Veo Robotics president, CEO, and co-founder, Patrick... View Details

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Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

By: Joseph B. Fuller

Keywords: Workforce; Future Of Work

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18 Aug 2020
Podcast

Google expands college-alternative tech skills training

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the shortage of workers with up-to-date digital skills. Tech titans like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have responded with training and certification programs of their own. In July, Google added certificates in data analytics,... View Details

08 Jul 2020
Podcast

Beyond family leave: How help with caregiving benefits workers and employers

The pandemic underscores US workers’ need for help with caregiving obligations. HBS graduate Lindsay Jurist-Rosner founded B2B benefits company Wellthy in 2014 after realizing that her experience juggling work and the complex care needs of her mother was shared in one... View Details

19 Jun 2020
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Dexai: Machine learning in the kitchen

Advances in robotics have opened the way for the ultimate in smart kitchen appliances. Draper Labs spinoff, Dexai, makes the AI brains that coordinate the actions of Alfred, a robotic arm versatile enough follow recipes and handle orders in commercial kitchens.... View Details

22 May 2020
Podcast

How Catalant helps align workforce and work

Large firms aiming to innovate or achieve a degree of agility increasingly look for outside help. Catalant has placed itself at the crux of this dynamic by offering a project management software platform and staffing marketplace for harnessing the skills of internal... View Details

04 Dec 2019
Podcast

Prudential’s long position on skills: fostering careers while embracing automation

Financial Services giant Prudential is pursuing a hybrid workforce strategy. It’s all-in on automation for underwriting and other data-intensive, but routine, tasks. And it looks to the labor market for certain in-demand skills. But, according to vice chairman Robert... View Details

22 Jan 2020
Podcast

From opt-in to check-out: How digital platforms are transforming retail

Dan O’Connor, retail expert and executive-in-residence with the HBS Managing the Future of Work project, traces the evolution of retail from the corner store through big-box, e-commerce, and the emergence of omni-faceted digital platforms. What are the implications for... View Details

12 Feb 2020
Podcast

The Purple Campaign and Vault: Taking on workplace sexual harassment post-#MeToo

Workplace sexual harassment can derail careers, depress morale, and decrease productivity. The #MeToo movement focused attention on the issue, but left companies to figure out how to address this common and underreported problem. Harvard Law grad Ally Coll and tech... View Details

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Planning Your Timing For HBS Students Students work with organizations in the summer for eight to twelve weeks, typically starting their positions in June. Planning by organizations can start as early as the... View Details

28 Jan 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?

Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen

26 Oct 1998
Lecture

Building Organizational Integrity: The Role of Leadership." Speaker. "Annual Congress of the International Federation of Stock Exchanges

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Trust; Leadership; Organizations

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1979
Article

Organizational Behavior for Executives

By: Roy Lewicki and John J. Gabarro

Keywords: Management; Organizations; Behavior

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September 26, 2018
Article

Ownership and Power Structure: Together at Last

By: Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at shedding light on how these distinct elements of organizational design interact. Contrary to... View Details

Keywords: Power; Organisational Design; Economics; Ownership; Organizational Design

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June 2017
Technical Note

Issues in Non-Profit Governance

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Non-profit governance at its core is very different from for-profit governance. Certain aspects of non-profit governance are widely pervasive across all non-profits, while all others are idiosyncratic to specific sub-groups of non-profits. After identifying these... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Nonprofit Organizations

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