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  • January 2014
  • Teaching Note

R&R

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence
This a revised teaching note for R&R case(9-386-019). View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Experience and Expertise; Contracts; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Market Entry and Exit
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  • April 2012
  • Article

Coming Through When It Matters Most

By: Heidi K. Gardner
All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms, I have... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Expectations; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Sharing
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Activity; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Stages Of Production; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Competency and Skills; Production
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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to walk beside Jim as he takes on... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 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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  • 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
  • July–August 2025
  • Article

Case Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce?

By: William Kerr
To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators.... View Details
Keywords: Training; Competency and Skills; Employees; Change Management; Leading Change
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  • November 2020
  • Article

Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

By: Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Training; Competency and Skills; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • March–April 2023
  • Article

The New-Collar Workforce

By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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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
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

allows programs to compete for donations and sell their services to specimen users. In the past decade, legal for-profit or non-profit entrepreneurial ventures alongside traditional procuring programs in medical schools have started... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 21 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

It's the E=MC2 of customer loyalty. Deeply satisfied employee = deeply satisfied customer = lifelong profit. Harvard Business School professor emeritus Jim Heskett and professor Earl Sasser have pursued this seemingly simple equation in books including Service... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne