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12 Sep 2021
News

Life Kit: How To Make Hybrid Work Successful

10 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Working with Professors at HBS

Prior to joining the HBS Class of 2014, I worked in strategy and planning at HBO and spent a summer at Univision in the office of the CEO. Media has been my industry of choice ever since I was exposed to it in high school through the... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the time to understand what drives and motivates their employees,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

stayed home full time, according to a new study. Men raised by working mothers are more likely to contribute to household chores and spend more time caring for family members. “There are very few things that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2023
What Do You Think?

Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

at prescribed times or days of the week. According to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, who has studied remote work for years, totally remote workers constituted 15 percent of the US workforce as of early... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

there are two reasons why CEOs should be cautious about overdoing the percentage of time interfacing with customers. First, marketing and selling should be a prime task of the CEO's direct reports, the individual business unit leaders.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

25 Jul 2017
News

Buying time could be the secret to happiness

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

level. As Toffel sees it, there are four angles: how the rules are designed, who adopts them, whether and how compliance is monitored, and whether these rules actually achieve what they purport to achieve. Most studies that have examined industry-initiated programs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2016
News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

approved a strategic plan for the next three years, as Sierra Leone works to build more resilient systems.” Back at HBS for the 2015–2016 academic year, Manning says she’s grateful her advisors and the doctoral program office supported... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

08 Mar 2017
News

A Steady Voice in Difficult Times

their lives. “As a pediatric chaplain, most of my work is in the intensive care units. Parents are desperate. They’re afraid, and they really want to talk about those fears. Just going into a room and introducing myself, then sitting... View Details

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

difficult jobs, and therefore expectations have certainly increased. And COVID actually created even higher expectations because during the COVID period, many employees had the ability to have greater levels of flexibility in terms of where they View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Processes (31) Management Skills (20) Management Style (16) Management Succession (5) Management Systems (4) Management Teams (52) Management (353) Managerial Roles (6) Market Design (7) Market Entry and Exit (6) Market Participation (1) Market Platforms (23) Market... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Time to Vote in University Elections

Networks and the Disney Channel. Los Angeles, CA. Candidates for HAA Director The purpose of the Harvard Alumni Association is to promote the welfare of Harvard University and to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard University and its alumni.... View Details

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Working Groups Update | About

Working Groups Update Published February 8, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email With the spring semester underway, I am writing to provide more information about the working... View Details

February 2004 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

As the engineering of state-of-the-art jet engines becomes more and more complex, Pratt & Whitney leaders face major competitive problems. Product development projects are not meeting the cost, quality, and lead-time targets. The leadership develops a design,... View Details

Keywords: Design; Engineering; Cost; Knowledge Management; Time Management; Product Launch; Standards; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

May 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Case

Managing the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga

By 2019, leaders from the public and private sector had become increasingly anxious about how advanced technologies and aging global populations could affect labor markets, workplaces, and workers’ lives. Some analysts forecasted that hundreds of millions of workers... View Details

Keywords: Labor Markets; Workplace; Employment; Technological Innovation; Demographics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities