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  • June 2020 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

AFC Ajax

By: Anita Elberse
In July 2019, AFC Ajax’s chief executive officer Edwin van der Sar finalized one of the biggest transfers in soccer—that of Matthijs de Ligt, only 19 years old but already one of the sports world’s brightest stars—from AFC Ajax to Italian powerhouse Juventus FC for a... View Details
Keywords: Soccer; Talent and Talent Management; Sports; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Sports Industry; Europe
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  • 1995
  • Chapter

The Role of Dominant Identity and Experience in Organizational Work on Diversity

By: R. J. Ely
Keywords: Working Conditions; Identity; Experience and Expertise; Diversity
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  • 2014
  • Report

Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia and Alexis Young
The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the competitiveness of American firms... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Education; Competency and Skills; Macroeconomics; United States
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  • 07 Jun 2023
  • News

Changing the Skills Narrative

  • 27 Jan 2021
  • News

Reorienting Work and Learning Around Skills Building

  • 07 Aug 2014
  • News

A Fairer Way of Giving Credit Where It's Due

Keywords: employee management; collaborative credit
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Nurturing talent for the best results

Venkatesh Iyer (PLDA 14, 2013) talks about nurturing the talents of those around him to get the best results in business and in the nonprofit sector. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Flying High

According to the Boston Globe (December 12, 2002), Ellyn McColgan (MBA ’83) “is not a household name in mutual funds. But that’s about to change.” Recently appointed president of Fidelity Brokerage Co., McColgan oversees $700 billion of the Boston-based firm’s assets.... View Details
Keywords: Fidelity; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Fast Casual

Cherng: Panda’s process designer. Peggy Cherng (OPM 25, 1997) and her husband, Andrew, share the titles of cochairman and co-CEO of Panda Restaurant Group (PRG), “one of the fastest-growing and most successful restaurant chains in the U.S.,” according to Bloomberg... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • October 2024
  • Supplement

Skills-First Hiring at IBM

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta
A video supplement to accompany "Skills-First Hiring at IBM" (case no. 422-013) View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Social Issues; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • 2017
  • Article

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
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  • August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Supplement

Lady Gaga (B)

By: Anita Elberse and Michael Christensen
In March 2011, Troy Carter, manager of pop star Lady Gaga, reflects on decisions made regarding his artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Product Launch; Product Development; Talent and Talent Management; Music Industry
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  • March 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Teaching Note

ProPublica (TN)

By: Michel Anteby and Ryan Johnson
Teaching Note for #410-140. View Details
Keywords: Markets; Finance; Competency and Skills; Knowledge; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Journalism and News Industry
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The Social Utility of Feature Creep

By: Debora V. Thompson and Michael I. Norton
Previous research shows that consumers frequently choose products with too many features that they later find difficult to use. Our research shows that this seemingly suboptimal behavior may in fact confer benefits when factoring in the social context of consumption.... View Details
Keywords: Impression Management; Social Influence; Conspicuous Consumption; Signaling; Product Features; Consumer Behavior; Information Technology; Experience and Expertise; Status and Position
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  • January 2009
  • Article

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • November 2007
  • Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
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  • April 1999
  • Teaching Note

Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4

By: Clayton M. Christensen
An overview teaching note showing instructors how to link together the concepts students should learn from discussing the cases in the fourth module of the Managing Innovation course. Summarizes the "Resources, Processes, & Values" framework of organizational... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Framework; Innovation and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Value
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

MBAs Reveal Their Hopes and Dreams

Want to know what makes HBS students tick? Try reading the short essays 34 from the Class of 2011 wrote in response to the simple question: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Each essay is paired with the writer’s black-and-white... View Details
Keywords: photography; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • News

Year Up Lifts the Next Generation

  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Dear Future Author…

Edited by April White Josh King(photo via LinkedIn) Josh King (photo via LinkedIn) “The first question you have to ask yourself is, ‘Do I have something original to say, something that hasn’t been said before?’ ” —Josh King (PGL 2, 1999), public relations executive and... View Details