employee engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

For example, pointing out the money saved by tough bargaining with a union could cause a real problem with employees. Announcing a dividend may lead to anger from employees who think it should have been a bonus or from environmentalists... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

the emotional side of digital transformation Digital transformation can be bewildering and exhausting for leaders and employees alike. Emerging digital technologies are disrupting everything from supply chains and manufacturing to selling... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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Podcast - Business & Environment

shifting its business model to respond to climate change. She explains how HP is both engaging their employees in the effort and meeting customer demands for increased climate action. For transcripts and... View Details

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Help - Alumni

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Asia Pacific - Global

participants also discussed actionable ways the broader HBS community should contribute value and navigate challenges amid the current turbulent global landscape. The evening was marked by engaging personal anecdotes and deep insights... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

When companies try to hire employees from specific ethnic or racial backgrounds to meet their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, an uncomfortable feeling often creeps into the process. Particularly among well-intentioned white... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

May 2022
Article

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. We find evidence of a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs... View Details

Keywords: Financial Advisers; Brokers; Gender Discrimination; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct And Fraud; FINRA; Financial Institutions; Employees; Crime and Corruption; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

She is dedicated to transforming how women access and engage with healthcare, alleviating OB/GYN burden and improving patient outcomes. As a fellow, Christina will be scaling Coord Health’s technology in clinical settings. She previously... View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

maximizing says nothing to employees or managers about how to find or establish initiatives or ventures that create value. It only tells us how we will measure success in the activity. Defining what it means to score a goal in football or... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

September 2019
Technical Note

Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg

This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States

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01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

The evidence has long shown that women are discriminated against in the workplace. Now it appears that they are even punished more harshly than men when they are in the wrong. A new research paper reveals that when women at Wells Fargo View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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HBS - The year in Review

student leadership ( Student Sustainability Associates Program ), employee engagement ( Green Office Program and HBS Green Team volunteer staff), and Executive Education outreach , the entire community is... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

EMC (and one essay by a man). "It bubbled up organically," Groysberg says. "And in that way the message they created was more compelling than a marketing campaign. It's helping the company to recruit women, which creates a great competitive advantage. And internally,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

terminating an employee for a seemingly innocuous act of expression. Danielle Brown, Google’s new vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, hired just a few weeks before the memo was leaked to the public, must now advise... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Leadership Fellows

Fellow position that meets the program goals of access, impact and leadership. Fellows will have the opportunity to gain exposure and insight to work being done at the highest levels of the organization as a function of the work assigned. Follows all HBS Recruiting... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

boundaries of these learning behaviors. We find that effective virtual teams, like co-located teams, engage in both reflective and action-oriented learning behaviors. However, the virtual context highlights distinct participation... View Details