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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
workplace for a time. Why is that? Fuller: Unfortunately, several things start happening if your work history gets interrupted. The first is something that virtually every employer uses to assess candidates called the continuity of... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A) In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
bench strength. At Starbucks, for example, the board oversees a formalized succession-planning process for 2,500 positions. Its goal is to make sure the company always has the right people with the right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
of shirking—that my folks will shirk or not respond to me immediately. As human beings, we’ve been tuned for synchronous communication. We ask a question, we want an answer right now. But in a... View Details
- Web
Navigating a Career in Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
served as a panel coordinator for the annual conference. I served as conference co-chair during my second year, which was a great way to meet people from across the sector. I first worked at Teach for America as an intern through the... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Report
A Jobs Compact for America's Future
human capital in the United States. In short, badly needed investments in the workforce are not being made, thereby threatening the country's future competitiveness and living standards. So argues Kochan, of MIT's Sloan School of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Change (2000). He led the development of the School's first required course in human resource management in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human Assets (1984), the View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
Chung says. "I think it's because they thought they were being compensated for past performance. The thinking is, 'Hey, I must be doing something right thus far. I think I may be overworking, so maybe I should slack off.'" An unintended... View Details
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue will not go away. Directors are... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the United States to see what courses are being offered in the field of women and leadership. And whenever I taught the Managing Human Capital course, I surveyed my female students to ask: If I taught a course on women and leadership,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
percent of the proposals get NIH funding. A researcher receiving his or her first major NIH grant is over 40 years old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
happen,” she observes. “When you’re doing something for the first time and are unsure if you’re on the right track, resist the tendency to put your head down and just keep going.” The sooner you open a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
Economic Section. Finally, I had the opportunity to pursue my passions at the nexus of business, technology, and policy before my HBS matriculation! While at Post, I contributed to enhancing U.S.-Bulgarian bilateral relations. My report on rule-of-law and View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
to me in our first meeting. “There are skills, attitudes, and a fundamental base of knowledge that education and experience can provide,” he said. “You won’t turn me into a world-class athlete by sending me out to practice with a coach,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
over time. Leading businesses has made me appreciate these lessons early: making decisions in ambiguous environments, considering the impact of your judgment on others, and listening to those in your organization to approximate the right... View Details
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The Moral Leader - Course Catalog
making these decisions. The course is organized around this framework. The first part focuses on accountability, the second on character, and the last on pragmatism. Format The course meets in the afternoon block for two hours. Enrollment... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
governments to get citizens to do the right thing. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Forget management by walking around. Decreasing workplace transparency can increase worker productivity. Money and Quotas Motivate the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
to be sure, but as Wilcox explained and E Ink's experience made clear, its prospects depend on a welter of fundamentally human choices. Twenty minutes after Sahlman's finance students finished dissecting E Ink and one floor up in Aldrich... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg