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05 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)

Governor Ned Lamont’s team as a strategic policy fellow. Focusing on workforce development, with specific attention to expanding employment resource access for low-income job seekers, I learned a ton! But it was the human aspect of the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

J. Hughes Norton III

visit to HBS a few months later, Norton asked about a job and McCormack later signed him on. With no inkling of the sports revolution ahead, the rookie was off and running. Twenty-five years later, thanks largely to television, the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

companies’ finances and worker treatment gives job seekers a new card to play. “That’s going to inform employee decisions when the labor market is tight,” he says. “The data is becoming more and more available. It’s easy to find, and it... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Compute Cluster and Data Storage - Research Computing Services

resources to enable HBS researchers to scale up effectively and efficiently conduct statistical analysis and programming. Quick Start and Logging In Requesting an Account Copying and Transferring Files Running Jobs Software Tools Scaling... View Details

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

Gino, a behavioral scientist, was working on a project about how time of day affects job interviews. (Note to job-hunters: Try to book a morning interview slot.) “As it turns out, the later one interviews in the day, the lower the score... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

28 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

people supervising teams. In part, that’s because it’s difficult to separate the performance of the boss from the performance of the individual workers he or she oversees. “Bosses may get lucky and have subordinates who can do their job... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

decision-making. We recommend beginning this pathway with Financial Accounting. Financial Accounting Leading with Finance Strategic Financial Analysis Capital Markets: For professionals looking to improve their understanding of the financial landscape and be more... View Details

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

have ownership in a topic, the more engaged they’ll be. The team’s leader should not speak more than one-third of the time throughout the meeting. Other than updating the team about broad company topics, your job is to guide the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

March 1998
Teaching Note

Personality Types: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (TN)

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy

Describes a class design for teaching students about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Ideal Organization exercise is the centerpiece of the class. It demonstrates that people with different cognitive types have distinct preferences for the type of... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Working Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Situation or Environment; Perception; Integration

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Dellenbach Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service. Business Track, 2005 Uplift Karen Grajwer... View Details

Research Summary

The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details

April 1998
Case

Jim Lyons and GenRad

Lyons, currently CEO of Harry Gray Associates, a consulting and investment firm, had just been approached by an executive recruiter representing GenRad, a 78-year-old electronics company headquartered in Concord, MA. The company, which manufactured integrated software... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts

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Find at Harvard

Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it. For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on... View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

contributors, salespeople aim their attention at their customers and products, worried mostly about how to do their own job well. In becoming managers, they must pivot toward clarifying to their staff what the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

of the changes in jobs and wages.” Research lacking Despite such fears, there has been little concrete analysis of the impact private equity buyouts cause. In part, that’s because the financial transactions are so complex; it can be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

it before that. So it was known to the scientists before, but generally speaking, we've done a bad job in being prepared from the disease surveillance, to having the kind of protective equipment that we need to have. To having the kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

this speaks to is the difference between making a good idea available to an audience, and articulating it in a way that inspires the audience to run with it. A good business fable may do a better job inspiring us to act. Book Excerpt From... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

greatest cofounding teams have war stories about stressful situations in their relationships and what they learned from these experiences. Using insights from the listening tour, along with your personal preferences, write a cofounder job... View Details