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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

existing railway and new light rail network. Finally, the Asian Development Bank has agreed to a $650 million loan to cover capital costs for electrification of an initial 110-kilometer railway line running... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
  • May–June 2023
  • Article

The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers: Six Mistakes That Companies Make—and How They Can Do Better

By: Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman
Many companies blame outside factors for the trouble they’ve been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government’s stimulus checks, the intrinsic nature of low-wage work. The authors argue that in fact the real problem lies in six big... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Recruitment; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity
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  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

money to start a business necessarily deserves it.” The second-largest adversely affected group, at 40 percent, were low wealth, low human capital individuals. Least affected, at 10 percent, were underfunded... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • November 21, 2022
  • Article

Now You See Me, Now I'm Gone

By: Boris Groysberg, Derek Haas and Eric Lin
As undervalued performers become more visible, they also gain more options to leave their employers. View Details
Keywords: Retention; Technology Adoption; Human Capital; Employees; Personal Development and Career
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  • September 2016 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

Zurich Insurance: Recruitment

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case “Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People... View Details
Keywords: Managing Change; Leadership; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Behavior; Recruiting; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Human Capital; Human Resources; Insurance; Recruitment; Insurance Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Research Is the Foundation

language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a... View Details
  • 10 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006, Nanda and his colleagues could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Piece of the Action

able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Is AI OK?

and attention, generosity and fairness. She cofounded pymetrics to capitalize on those existing tools. Polli and her partners developed a collection of gamified assessments and used them to evaluate top... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

Leadership program; and led strategy and human capital work for a number of leading educational and social impact organizations. Work Experience:  Bowdoin College (Executive Director, Career Exploration and... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital-Backed Startups

Keywords: by Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda, and Christopher Stanton
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

help entrepreneurs assemble great teams. But VCs don't manage, inspire, or lead. We're off stage, behind the curtains, funding the production, and maybe adjusting some spotlights. Venture capital is a supporting role. HBSB: What do you... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

other MBA candidates interested in talent development to follow their interests as soon as possible. “Many will find their way to it from other angles,” he says. “But it’s increasingly important for MBAs with curiosity about View Details
  • May 2013
  • Case

Education in Brazil: Waiting for a Revolution

By: Aldo Musacchio and Alejandra Meraz Velasco
This case describes the situation of the education system in Brazil circa 2012. The case discusses first some of the problems of the Brazilian education system. Then, the case summarizes the findings of a recent study of high performing schools in Brazil and outlines... View Details
Keywords: Quality Of Education; Federalism; Elementary Education; Quality; Human Capital; Education; Education Industry; Brazil; Korean Peninsula
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Hardymon Receives VC Award

Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty... View Details
Keywords: awards; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • January 2022
  • Article

Determinants of Gender Differences in Change in Pay among Job-Switching Executives

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
The authors investigate what determines differences in change in pay between men and women executives who move to new employers. Using proprietary data of 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, the authors observe narrower pay differences between men and... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; Executive Labor Market; Gender Pay Gap; External Recruitment; Executive Compensation; Gender; Human Capital
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  • 08 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

Schools, an education non-profit working to create systemic change. Before HBS, she was a consultant at Bain & Company and spent her six-month externship at Education Pioneers. During her MBA summer, she explored the charter school sector by joining the View Details
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

“which is a fancy way of referring to all of the things you don’t have as a new company—products, knowledge, connections, resources.” The most common and effective way to make up for that lack is to find someone who can help you overcome it—most often a venture View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 02 Feb 2022
  • News

AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say

while AI’s ability to replicate and exacerbate human biases has led to some high-profile missteps and attention from regulators, firms like Pymetrics have worked to design systems that not only don’t discriminate, but also surface... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2018
  • News

Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

development being led by private equity. What does this mean? There's a tremendous amount of natural capital in that region, and there's also a lot of development View Details