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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Collaborate with other employers in advancing value-based competition For complex conditions consider partnerships with centers of excellence who share the goal of readiness to return to work. Offer encouragement, incentives, and support to View Details
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Career Outcomes | Research Associates
This role has helped past employees succeed in roles such as lawyers, data scientists, entrepreneurs, consultants, project managers, and more. We often hear from previous employees that enhancing their... View Details
- July 2020
- Article
Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions." Special Issue on Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility. Advances in Strategic Management 41 (July 2020).
- September 1992 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1987
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Kaiser Steel entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in early 1987. Nine months later it still faces several difficult obstacles to reorganization, including litigation, environmental liabilities, and pension and medical benefits for retired employees. Students are... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Employee Relationship Management; Resource Allocation; Opportunities; Conflict and Resolution; Steel Industry; United States
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1987." Harvard Business School Case 293-019, September 1992. (Revised March 2007.)
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
manager who needs to prevent an employee from undertaking the wrong action has the choice of either trying to persuade the employee or relying on interpersonal authority. In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
Benefit When Employees Work Remotely These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too [Image: GermanS62] View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Zoë Cullen (photo by Russ Campbell) Zoë Cullen (photo by Russ Campbell) Wage transparency is a concept that is most often rallied against by employers, while employees presume it will benefit them by equalizing wages and reducing the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
works for. Career concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. The results of the research suggest that financial disclosures have implications for the debate over whether... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
situation when you’re sitting and meeting with a small business owner and an employee walks out of the door and the owner has to go into the kitchen and work the grill.” Students from the class have worked with about a dozen small... View Details
Keywords: retail
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
Frei notes. Employee training relies on a management approach summed up by Luiza Helena as "assisted freedom," with a focus on self-development, open communication, and participation. For most... View Details
- Fall 2023
- Article
Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, Abhijit Naik and Sascha L Schmidt
Putting strategy into play requires knowing your organization’s crucial roles and making sure your best talent occupies them. View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, Abhijit Naik, and Sascha L Schmidt. "Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance." MIT Sloan Management Review 65, no. 1 (Fall 2023): 58–61.
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
central feature of nostalgia. Most nostalgic memories involve other people, and when individuals reflect on these memories, they feel more socially connected and supported. Managers can take advantage of nostalgia’s social nature to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
After HBS, he signed on with the Ford Motor Company, where he served in various capacities, including two years as managing director of Ford Argentina S.A. In 1998, he moved to Mazda (33.4 percent of which is owned by Ford) as senior... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
George Harad has worked to erase former boundaries between the CEO's office and the company's front lines. He responds daily to dozens of electronic mail messages received from employees throughout the company. "The ease of communication... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
What managers must take away from this book is that the jobs in their organization will only be fulfilling to their employees if they provide opportunities to reasonably satisfy all four drives. Jobs must be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
2018, the organization announced a new ethics policy, so Culver Humphrey came forward with her story once again. Leadership rebuffed her a second time, so she met with the Oregonian. Team members were stunned by what they read. For many, including the NGO’s View Details
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Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community - Alumni
students and alumni who are searching for organizations that are committed to these same principles. Below is a sample of questions to enable HBS students and alumni to have thoughtful conversations with hiring managers on this important... View Details