employee management - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that Ewald Wessels had become a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

29 Sep 2015
Blog Post

5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS

The first few weeks of the first year at HBS can certainly be overwhelming: meeting 900 new people, learning how to prepare for cases and how to jump in at the right time in class, managing an influx of social events, determining which... View Details

30 Jun 2019
News

Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS, Harvard College, and MIT attended the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

business administration cannot change the world. The recourse I see is to establish a level of supervision above the corporate world, either private sector or government. Of the two, only government is susceptible to opinion of mere citizens. The SEC could require that... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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American 5% 5% 2% 3% 1% Hispanic / Latino / Latinx 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% Multi-Race / Non-Hispanic 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% White 89% 90% 93% 93% 95% Did Not Report / Unknown 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Staff headcount includes View Details

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

cancel company events that would have required customers or employees to travel to Indiana. And Apple CEO Tim Cook authored an op-ed in The Washington Post to oppose the legislation. The public outcry against the RFRA seemed to make an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

01 Sep 2012
News

Ideas in Action

employees of international firms, Neeley’s research also looks at how distant workers collaborate with colleagues through various means of communication—electronic, voice, or in person—to advance work and relationship goals. Such contacts... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

infrastructure ITG had constructed to support clients with customized software tools and technical support had grown well beyond sustainable levels. With his management team, Gasser had developed a two-part response to the challenge: a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical education and in physician... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

restaurants awarded five stars on the popular Yelp review service managed to carry on business as usual, despite a $1 increase in the minimum wage. But restaurants with a mediocre 3.5-star rating didn’t fare as well; the same $1 wage... View Details