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03 May 2019
HBS Seminar

Stephanie Cheng & Ran Song, Harvard University & Harvard Law School

August 2023
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Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Conduct, your jobs are secure. This decision was made with 100 percent support of the Firm’s Operating Committee. At the end of this year, we will know what we are dealing with, and hopefully, the economy will be on the mend by then.”... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Careers - Health Care

experience in the sector that will help students establish a fundamental understanding of various health care industries. They are available to assist students in career planning, securing a summer internship, and finding full-time job... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not the end of the story. In... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

09 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

stereotypes. I wasn’t going to be sitting quietly in the corner building the financial model, I was going to be at the center of the table debating ideas with a CEO. And at the same time, I realized that it was also my job to make sure... View Details

26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

all these pieces of digital data as useful in helping them do a better job in two ways: One is doing what they do more efficiently, and two is maybe doing less, because they can outsource certain things to the crowd,” she says.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

10 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

supposed to keep “trying on” different jobs and companies for the rest of our careers. 2. Making a career change isn’t just a one-step choice that you make. Rather, a career change is a series of trying different things “on for size” in... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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The Gift of Global Talent

29 Sep 2018 | The Hill HBS Prof Pens Book On Talent Pipeline & The Threats It Faces Marc Ethier 26 Sep 2018 | Poets & Quants In America, Immigrants Really Do Get The Job Done Michael Blanding 01 Aug 2018 | HBS Working Knowledge Immigrants... View Details

02 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun

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Yanhua Bird's research encompasses two streams: (1) entrepreneurship and social innovation — how the design and structure of alternative forms of enterprises influence their activities and success, with a focus on peer-to-peer markets and social enterprises, and (2)... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Strategy; Social Evaluation; Entrepreneurship; Social Innovation; Social Movements; Non-market Strategy; Corporate Sustainability

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

Great Depression. Roy had to drop out of school when he ran out of money during his junior year, but Tibby graduated with a degree in speech and English. They were married in 1938, and Tibby went to work for her father at the First National Bank of Layton. Roy, who... View Details

03 Jan 2023
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How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

both could be very direct as well. Hesselbein, according to one account, once lectured a class of retiring CEOs that included Alan Mulally, who was out of a job at Boeing prior to becoming CEO of Ford, to stop “whining” about what they... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Harvard Business School... View Details

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Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

competitive advantage. This holds true internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally—wherever the goal is to improve productivity, stimulate sustainable job growth, and increase the standard of living. Improving Competitiveness:... View Details

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

the company. The program expanded beyond India to Germany, the United States, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, and Ireland. So far about 100 people have been hired for jobs including software developer or tester, business analyst, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

31 Oct 2023
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details

October 2022
Case

An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Joe and Matt Deitch, father and son, knew it was time to start their own family office. Matthew had recently joined his father at the family’s three enterprises, and they both realized that their family’s needs had grown increasingly complex over the years. In search... View Details