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02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

encourage companies to set lower salaries, hold firm on initial offers, and prevent expensive renegotiations. By publicly setting pay parameters at the outset, employees “know when you get a job offer, it’s not a negotiable topic,” says... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

published in the company’s prospectus. The lessons to be found there are classic examples (and warnings to other IPO companies) of how not to frame a public offering. WeWork took advantage of being deemed an “emerging company” under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Business , published in 1900, Paul Nathan explained, “The intelligent job printer will never permit himself to forget that printing is allied to advertising, and that almost all of the printing he does depends in some way upon its success... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

well-researched, expert advice, she turned to other working parents, asking, What do you wish you had known? Those inputs helped Dowling guide colleagues at Blackstone, where she had taken a job as head of talent development. Helping... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Career Support - Business & Environment

(Ongoing) Career & Professional Development Office Once matriculated, you will have access to myHBS (login required) which connects you to classmates, course work, and the CPD website (login required) . You can access a wealth of information: lists of HBS recruiting... View Details

24 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market

Keywords: by Duncan Gilchrist, Michael Luca & Deepak Malhotra

June 2020
Supplement

RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia

In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada

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01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Yvon knew what it meant at the time,” Conn admits. Ultimately, the founder tasked a small group of board members with the job of figuring that out. Given the name Project Chacabuco, after a conservation area in Chile, the group was... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

out of poverty, providing products and services that have improved people’s standards of living, and creating fulfilling jobs and careers. But the challenges facing the world today require business to do even more—to address persistent... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

year deferral, I could also apply to the MS portion of the dual degree program. After a few months of essay prep, test-taking, and an interview, I received the admissions portal update that changed my life: I had been accepted into the 2+2 program! Upon graduation from... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

in 2013, Hilton noted a lack of job opportunities in renewable energy. So, he went into management consulting and then a software company, before landing at Tesla in 2017. The culture was challenging but “It was the most exciting clean... View Details

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

write in the working paper. “Not only is this unfair, it is inefficient; the economy is missing out on women who would make great managers.” Male employees with male managers earn 13 percent more In studying job assignments and manager... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

had 50/50 experiences with startups, citing remote work, nebulous job descriptions, and lack of fulfillment as their gripes. This role promised solutions to all of those concerns. I reached out to professors, friends, and even dropped... View Details

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” There are three things that define high-impact to Endeavor. First is having the commercial skills to create something that’s large and successful, creating a lot of jobs and revenue. Second is... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

mathematician whose job at Lilly was explicitly to investigate failures. Together they discovered that the patients who suffered negative effects from Alimta typically had a deficiency in folic acid. Further investigation demonstrated... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

19 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS Show?

job search, social calendar or any of the typical things a student is supposed to do in business school. The HBS Show is created purely for the enjoyment of the HBS Community. It is a time for the community to laugh at ourselves...a lot.... View Details

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

brief pitch to the judges and audience, with the more than 400 audience members then invited to vote for a Crowd Favorite winner. Grand Prize winner M7 Health is “making nursing jobs work for nurses.” Cofounders Ilana Springer Borkenstein... View Details

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

harassment impeded their job performance. However, most opted not to change jobs or locations, perhaps reflecting the tendency to minimize the harassment and look outside of work for support. Women Working... View Details

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