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  • September 2016
  • Supplement

ZenRecruit: Sales Coaching and Performance Reviews

By: Mark N. Roberge
Amara Kaggwa leads the small but rapidly expanding sales team at ZenRecruit, a recruiting software application used by small businesses. Armed with six months of sales performance metrics, Kaggwa is preparing for her monthly performance conversations with two... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Salesforce Management; Applications and Software; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry
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  • May 2016
  • Article

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation

By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max Bazerman
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance; Gender
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  • April 2005 (Revised February 2006)
  • Case

Monster Networking

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero
The management at Monster.com, the leading U.S. provider of online recruitment services, must decide how to proceed with Monster Networking (MN), a new business launched in late 2003. MN helps users identify other individuals who can offer career advice. Monster.com... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Service Industry; Employment Industry; United States
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  • March 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Akamai's Underwater Options (A)

By: Brian J. Hall, Houston Lane and Jonathan Lim
Akamai's stock price declines dramatically with the NASDAQ in 2000, causing virtually all employee options to go underwater. Ownership and retention incentives are largely destroyed, and employee morale falls sharply. Management weighs the pros and cons of various... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Stock Options; Attitudes; Compensation and Benefits
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  • December 1999 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

Prime Designs

By: Paul W. Marshall
A student takes the role of the father who is the CEO of a family business. A non-family manager has asked for a meeting. Agenda topics are: your son's latest proposal and managers' desire to own equity. View Details
Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Family Ownership; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Authentic Leadership

"This is really a human development course. We believe, to the extent that you are more authentic and more clear about what you're about, you'll be more likely to step up when there's an opportunity to lead, be more effective when you do... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • May 2017
  • Case

Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund

By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley
Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Public Sector; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Governance; Government Administration; Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Experience and Expertise; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Recruitment; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Attitudes; Trust; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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  • 12 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022

human health. During school, I co-founded a pet food company to purchase cell-cultured meat and convert it into premium dog food. Classes on entrepreneurship, the Rock Center, and the alumni network provided invaluable View Details
  • 13 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods

OrganizationPaul Coz, Vice President Human Resources, Gorton's Seafoods Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Gorton's, America's iconic seafood company, is the category leader in frozen, value added seafood, providing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS

focus on while pursuing my MBA. I now know from personal experience how similar being a mother and an entrepreneur can be.    It Takes a Village – Resources for Moms at HBS  Managing a household with kids, having a spouse that works... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 26 Mar 2020
  • Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

there are a variety of ways to learn best practices on launching and growing ideas. The only way to determine if you like (or are any good!) at building things is to give it a try - and this presented a phenomenal opportunity. I hope to... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

serve all patients, all needs, and through all channels." Raffaella Sadun: I would add that their lack of focus might be the reason why it’s so hard for them to actually excel in implementation. The hospital is a complex, multiproduct organization, and spreading... View Details
Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health
  • Web

From Classroom to Workplace - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice Images: 172, 157, 159 Women... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based industrial research as Mayo’s The View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Chai Ling

persistently - the push for human rights and the rule of law in China. Without those concepts in place, the country's economy will never develop properly." She adds that "the most-respected American companies in China are the ones that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; photograph by Webb Chappell
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Back from the Brink

MILLS: Sometimes when the bottom falls out of the bottom line, the only place to go is up. Harold Mills (MBA ’98) is CEO of ZeroChaos, an IT staffing and human- resources outsourcing firm based in Orlando, Florida. With some $365 million... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Oct 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

himself and 3 colleagues? One idea: Don't make life too comfortable for them. Key concepts include: The Medici String Quartet combines great human achievement, extreme conditions, and intense collaboration. The topic of creative... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

joined—from starting Red Hat Consulting’s UI/UX Community of Practice to building the first employee resource group (women in tech) at Invitae. In late 2019, I felt a strong itch to consider the... View Details
  • 12 May 2022
  • News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

volunteers," including leaders from her previous company, human resources platform Gusto. She is most proud of the fact that the initiative led to real action, rather than mere words, after the racist... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley