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23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

surveyed 516 Harvard undergraduates, the results held steady. Asked to imagine receiving a high-power job opportunity upon graduation (a likely prospect for many of them), young women listed a higher proportion of negative outcomes than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2018
News

Inside the Emerging Economy With Millions of High-Paying Jobs

01 Apr 2020
News

White-Collar Job Security Exposes Huge Gap With Service Industry

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

With a final deal reached on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), prepare for another cacophony of protest in Congress that America is signing away jobs to other parts of the world. The naysayers will be overlooking one small fact. Even... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

29 Sep 2015
News

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

02 Jun 2013
News

On the Job: Don't let shiny job blind you to realities

15 Aug 2011
News

When being good at your job isn't good enough

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

across the country, which is centered on questions about their jobs. Will they find a well-paying job? Is their job secure? Will their children find good jobs? Will their jobs be secure? That's what I'm here... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

23 Feb 2017
News

Asian Last Names Lead To Fewer Job Interviews, Still

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

low-wage jobs, the authors note. Those workers, along with younger first-time job seekers and adults reentering the workforce, are an untapped resource in the labor market. Many have the “soft skills” to complement emerging technologies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

14 Sep 2011
News

Obama green-tech program that backed Solyndra struggles to create jobs

17 May 2012
News

New Study Shows That Workplace Inspections Save Lives, Don’t Destroy Jobs

04 Jun 2009
News

Harvard Business School Students Prepare to Enter the Job Market

03 Nov 2009
News

Give credit to create jobs - but only where it's due

2022
Article

Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang

Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

even if they think they have been brought in specifically to change them. Leaders going into realignment and sustaining-success situations have to be particularly careful to invest in learning about culture and politics. In realignments, a key part of the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2014
News

How to fix the broken market for middle-class jobs

Sep 2014
Survey

An Economy Doing Half Its Job

This report presents the findings of HBS' 2013–14 survey on U.S. competitiveness. It highlights a troubling divergence in the U.S. economy. Large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly-skilled individuals are prospering. But... View Details