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  • 12 Nov 2014
  • News

How to fix the broken market for middle-class jobs

  • 30 Mar 2022
  • News

To Retain Employees, Support Their Passions Outside Work

  • December 1986 (Revised November 1990)
  • Case

Club Med (B)

Highlights the issue of high employee turnover in a multi-site, international subsidiary of a large resort company. Also described are service-quality problems the company has because the amount of value added through employee interaction with customers is high.... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Retention; Recruitment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Tourism Industry; United States
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  • December 2008 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Clutch Group - Should Abhi Shah Grab This Opportunity?

By: Daniel J. Isenberg
Abhi Shah ('06) co-founding CEO of Clutch Group in the US and Bangalore, must decide whether to risk a law suit by recruiting an entire legal services team from a large US corporation. His decision and how he implements it will have a dramatic impact on the legal... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business Startups; Legal Services Industry; Bangalore; United States
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  • April 2013 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Microsoft in Korea

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Lynn Pyun
Microsoft Korea sees a potential opportunity to dramatically improve its subsidiary's performance by actively recruiting and promoting female senior managers in South Korea. The question is to what extent multinationals can gain competitive advantage by actively... View Details
Keywords: Global; International Business; Multinational Management; Human Resource Management; Labor Market; Global Human Resource Management; Microsoft; South Korea; Asia; East Asia; Human Resources; Strategy; Global Strategy; Computer Industry; South Korea; East Asia
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  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Blog Post

Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester

In just a couple short weeks, the second semester will have started and for many students, internship recruiting will be underway. It’s almost strange to think of how quickly the first few months went by. Many aspects about the experience... View Details
  • Research Summary

Ownership Qutotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage

By: W. Earl Sasser

Professors Jim Heskett and Earl Sasser, in collaboration with Joe Wheeler have been examining cuatomer and employee ownership behaviors which have a profound impact on long term profit and growth. Their findings are published in Ownership Quotient:... View Details

  • March 2023
  • Case

Interior Collab

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Employee Ownership; Trust; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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  • 22 Nov 2010
  • News

How to Give Away Your Money More Effectively

  • Clubs

Tech Club

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 26 Jul 2019
  • News

10 Common-Sense Rules for a Customer-Centric Business Culture

  • October 1998
  • Case

"Pathways to Independence": Welfare-to-Work at Marriott International

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
In 1991 Marriott International established a program called Pathways to Independence to recruit and train people from the welfare rolls. The program graduated over 1,000 people in eight years and retained about 20% more of its participants than regular hires. Now the... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Retention; Training; Expansion; Quality; Poverty; Programs
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  • June 2003
  • Case

Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads

By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Leslie Freeman
Three managing directors at Peabody Simpson had just returned from a firm-wide recruiting event at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Recruitment; Reports; Organizational Design
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  • 16 Jan 2012
  • News

All hands on deck: How can we make more heroes?

  • Video

Harvard Business School Students Prepare to Enter the Job Market

  • August 2022
  • Case

The Spreadsheet

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Alexander J. MacKay
Compensation is the largest expenditure of almost every venture. Getting compensation packages right affects talent acquisition, retention, and profitability. In this case, and accompanying negotiation exercise, students learn strategies and tactics for setting... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing
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  • June 18, 2015
  • Article

What Makes FC Barcelona Such a Successful Business

By: Andres Hatum and Luciana Silvestri
This article explores how FC Barcelona's identity as "more than a club" fuels the team's impressive performance on the field. We focus on the role of La Masía, the club's youth academy, to explain how a strong sense of organizational identity underlies the team's style... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Identity; Organizational Culture; Performance; Sports Industry; Barcelona
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  • August 1999
  • Case

Rob Waldron at SCORE! Educational Centers

Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring and growing a small, self-owned company into a professional organization. Focuses on the steps Waldron takes to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Education
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  • 26 Oct 2012
  • News

Brazil's Neymar Seeks World Cup, Advertising Gold

  • Research Summary

Public Health Debate Over Smoking

In research relevant to the current public health debate about smoking, Professor King and co-authors examine the effect of the tobacco settlement on cigarette advertising in magazines, the advertising behavior of cigarette companies in recruiting underage teenagers... View Details