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- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we're trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with data and evidence in the case. So... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
others. I sought one of the greatest honors I will ever experience: leading a platoon of Marines. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: My favorite memories happened during training events in the field with my Marines. We would be short on sleep,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
the faster, smoother, more responsive, cross-functional process design that characterized Michael Hammer’s and James Champy’s pathbreaking work in the early 1990s. However, one could also make the argument that middle managers have the most complex View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
local convenience stores, whose owners received incentives per order. This increased job efficiency by two or three times, as delivery moved from door-to-door to the pick-up station. Meanwhile, the work to pick and pack items also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
outlet by which creativity can currently find its fullest expression and support at a time when journalism and the arts are given more scrutiny. Before the revolution, you might aspire to a government post or a job with a multinational,... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic reasons, but to improve performance and value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
And what a body of scholarship it was! Al did not invent the subdiscipline of business history so much as he established it as a rigorous and thriving enterprise. He was not the flashy George McClellan of the Union Army, meticulously drilling his troops but never... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative, 2018–2019. Summer R. Jackson : Named as an MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Honoree in 2019. Summer R. Jackson : Recipient of an MIT Sloan PhD Fellowship, 2016–2021. Tsedal Neeley : Received the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
off-campus at 48 Boylston Street (now JFK Street) in Harvard-owned Drayton Hall near what was then a grimy MTA subway train yard. From the apartment, it was a convenient walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge to the HBS campus. In the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
time? Why is it that even people who care about morality end up behaving unethically? Why is it that people often feel inauthentic at work? What does that imply for their job satisfaction and productivity?” Gino was motivated to... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
different people, and a self-image that is quite different from the same group sprinkled throughout the field organization. Formal management processes such as planning and budgeting approaches, compensation schemes, training programs,... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
Some companies have begun relying more on computer-administered tests than human interviewers to find the best applicants. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Danielle Li and colleagues suggests that in this case, we may have to score one for... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
Andes took what Battilana and Dorado call a "socializability-focused" approach to hiring. Rather than looking for job candidates with experience in either social welfare work or finance, Los Andes hired people with essentially no work... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
create job creators instead of job seekers through an entrepreneurship training program at the grassroots level? In a serendipitous twist, that same year, as part of an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first collection of these that we ran last year has been one of our most... View Details
- Career Coach
Hillary Mann
Professional Development resources to support students in achieving their unique career goals. As a career coach, Hillary partners with students to define their career vision and leverage job search strategies such as creatively... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)." Harvard Business School Case 423-072, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
With the 2000-2001 academic year in full swing, the expanding HBS faculty — now more than two hundred members strong — has seen a number of promotions, accessions to chaired professorships, movement of previously chaired professors to vacated chairs, and, in two cases,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Brisbane, Australia. The building was four times larger than she needed for classrooms and a serious stretch for her balance sheet. “I was scared to death,” Russo says, looking back on the experience. It was a risk she didn’t need to take. Her View Details