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- August 2009 (Revised February 2011)
- Background Note
Managing Individual Human Capital: Research Resources
By: Boris Groysberg and Emilie Codega
This technical note provides a list of library resources for researching executives and a bibliography of books on managing one's own career. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Human Capital; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Research
Groysberg, Boris, and Emilie Codega. "Managing Individual Human Capital: Research Resources." Harvard Business School Background Note 410-046, August 2009. (Revised February 2011.)
- February 2003
- Exercise
Restructuring the U.S. Steel Industry: Spreadsheet Exercise
Description of an EXCEL spreadsheet exercise to test the impact of changes in wage rates on the value of debt and equity securities. View Details
- June 2005
- Article
Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve
By: M. D. Cannon and A. C. Edmondson
Keywords: Failure; Learning; Organizations; Labor; Innovation and Invention; Performance Improvement
Cannon, M. D., and A. C. Edmondson. "Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve." Long Range Planning 38, no. 3 (June 2005): 299–319.
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
Photo via Digital Chosun Photo via Digital Chosun The shortage of semiconductors that has hamstrung the automotive industry since 2020 isn’t over yet, and Renesas CEO Hidetoshi Shibata (MBA 2001) predicts the shortage will continue well into the middle of 2023,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship. We started in the whaling... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Impact: The Changing Nature of Work
Advanced technologies, shifting demographics, and new business models are transforming the nature and scope of work globally. As a result, the skills leaders need—today and tomorrow—also must evolve. Since its inception, HBS has aspired to prepare its graduates to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
When the RFP for Amazon’s HQ2 arrived in September 2017, Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for only eight months. The commonwealth was not known for the generous... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in economic development... View Details
- 06 Jul 2014
- News
Now at the Movies: Fully Reclining Seats
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Gompers, Merton Honored
The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick for their paper “Corporate Governance and Equity Prices.”... View Details
- April 2011 (Revised December 2012)
- Supplement
South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck?
By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa
Vietor, Richard H. K., and Diego Comin. "South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck?" Harvard Business School Supplement 711-085, April 2011. (Revised December 2012.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve seen some of those effects in... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
recent development for multinationals, notes Spar, who is an authority on business-government relations and foreign direct investment. The traditional corporate reaction toward distant countries' and subcontractors' labor violations has,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure By: Kayser, Susan A., John W. Maxwell, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—To assess and manage reputational risks associated with supply chains, buyers are increasingly seeking information about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
counting. The six months Masha spent traveling the countryside to set up the Village Promoter program helped him see the scale of the challenges facing Nigerian farmers. The biggest problem wasn't the labor force—he'd never seen anyone... View Details
- Portrait Project
Molly Jacobson
everyday laborers whose jobs are physical, taxing, and monotonous. All workers — whether they report to a field or an office — deserve to be rewarded with a living wage, generous benefits, and the prospect of future advancement. I want to... View Details