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- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
the hiring market continues to prove challenging, and employers across the spectrum commit to diverse hiring practices, apprenticeships could create a pipeline for homegrown talent. “It raises a lot of concerns among some teachers and some View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
than a chocolate bar, the researchers repeated the experiment with the least thrilling food they could imagine: carrots. Sure enough, participants who performed a series of gestures before consuming the carrots reported more enjoyment than those who just ate them.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
Workers who used to be fine with regular office hours pre-pandemic are still struggling, as the pandemic continues to affect their availability and the predictability of their work hours. Parents with vaccinated kids could still find... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just... View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
practice." The hypocrisy issue is especially challenging for parent companies of multiple brands. Fournier and Avery cite the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Unilever's marketing effort focused on encouraging women to embrace their... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
Expense is a convenient boogeyman. Secondly, the old denial case is still around. Even today, I hear people say, “I don’t see color.” That’s fine. Race is not real, but the effects of racism are. Our research on schools, for instance, finds that even if View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
different, not by being the same. In the Harvard Business School case "Yum! China," professor David E. Bell and Agribusiness Program director and senior researcher Mary Shelman examine how Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's... View Details
- 30 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
- Research Summary
Overview
Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
Florida legislature, after several weeks of heated public controversy, passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a Parental Rights in Education bill stating: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
secured.) Nothing in the employees' training could have prepared them for such an unprecedented situation, Deshpandé says. Yet further interviews and text documents from the case provide background on the unique culture of Tata Sons, the Taj's View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
safeguard remote workers’ rights. In Portugal, new legislation protects remote workers by prohibiting employers from contacting employees after hours or remotely monitoring their work. Choudhury thinks this is particularly useful for working View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
into consideration the intense emotions of parents and children. So Dietz and his team embarked on a patient-centered redesign by attempting to view the diagnostic procedure through the eyes of a child. The result: Adventure Series... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
called Clockiddie or Clockiddo that will not only wake kids in the morning but also tell them bedtime stories and sing songs at night. "She realizes that for kids it's not just a struggle to wake up, it's also a struggle to go to sleep," he says. "But... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
product is made." Vinyl is really interesting because I can’t think of many other products that kids will buy that were cool for their parents. Usually it’s like, “Oh, my parents like that stuff. I don’t like it.” But vinyl really does... View Details