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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
selffunded entrepreneurship by acquisition ventures. HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees (login required) : A loan reduction program for students working in the private sector at jobs that pay significantly below the HBS...
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- September 2023
- Case
Derek Aguirre
By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people in low-income urban areas. The case discusses his path to pursue meaningful work and his reflections on the...
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- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
increased job churn (which will occur), with no significant gain or loss of jobs. The problem generally is that the benefits of globalization flow largely to investors and consumers while workers bear a disproportionate share of the...
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News - Research Computing Services
News News HBSGrid Maintenance 8/5: Full Shutdown 31 JUL 2024 This is a reminder that our next maintenance is scheduled for Monday, August 5, 8 am–12 pm ET . This will be a full shutdown for the HBSGrid compute cluster, MariaDB, and Globus data transfer nodes, for which...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care about doing the View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
Harvard Business School faculty on how to get out of your own way. A Good Place to Start Reflecting on Work Improves Job PerformanceResearch by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
use of power is the objective, they ask, why is it that the wrong people often possess power? They point to several reasons. Power-seekers self-select. They appear to want the job more. They also impress us—“many of us are disposed to...
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by James Heskett
- 22 May 2018
- Blog Post
How to Engage a Search Firm
The most important thing to remember when engaging with an executive search firm (or a recruiter), is that they do not work for you. Their client is the organization that engages them to find someone to fill a specific position. There are usually specific skills and...
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
disruptive innovation theory Assess new opportunities and potential threats Discover jobs to be done and develop frameworks to better understand customer needs Acquire techniques for executive-level strategy development Organize for...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
community involvement: Chiofaro's pro bono activity includes founding both the Boston Jobs Academy, an organization that prepares Boston residents for office jobs, and the Boston chapter of the Police Athletic League. For the future,...
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Daniel Penrice
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
described a newly graduated HBS student and his wife who chose a job in Colorado because it would allow them the lifestyle they wanted: not a big city, room to enjoy the outdoors and spend weekends hiking, normal work hours, etc. Shortly...
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- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients....
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
when, and why working in a startup is right for you; evaluate the viability of a startup you are considering joining; learn how startup dynamics and rules benefit investors, not employees; negotiate a better job offer and manage...
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Should Yellen Be the Central Banker to the World? Should Yellen Be the Central Banker to the World? by Michael E. Porter Feb 18, 2016 Media Mention Higher Education and U.S. Jobs Prospects Higher Education and U.S. View Details
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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness
About the Project 09 Aug 2013 Video Dean Nitin Nohria Announces the U.S. Competitiveness Project Video What Is the U.S. Competitiveness Project? 02 Apr 2015 Video An Economy Doing Half Its Job Re: Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin The U.S....
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- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
getting honest feedback from their colleagues are essential elements of becoming authentic leaders. That’s what Starbucks’ Howard Schultz did in coping with the severe challenges of his youth. It is also what made the difference for Steve View Details
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by Bill George
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
implications for managers, especially those in charge of employees whose jobs require repetitive tasks. At the most basic level, they can avoid peppering the office with, say, posters of distracting beach scenes. But they also can be...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2016
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,...
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Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-042, November 2016.
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When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies
By: Leslie Perlow
“Saying yes when you really mean no” is a problem that haunts organizations from start-ups to multi-nationals. It exists across industries, levels, and functions. And it’s exacerbated by a down economy, when the fear of losing one’s job is on everybody’s mind and the...
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Perlow, Leslie. When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies. New York: Crown Business, 2003.