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- 28 Aug 2019
- Podcast
How teaching robots the way the world works changes the world of work
Robots aren’t necessarily primed to take over, but advances in machine learning are readying the mechanical components of the workforce for more complex and autonomous tasks. Startup Osaro specializes in deep reinforcement learning systems, artificial intelligence for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
Meena Mutyala, VP of engineering at Westinghouse. “There is a stereotype of South Asians that we are technically very smart,” said Mutyala, who began her career as a physicist. “But that makes it difficult to move from the technical to the managerial ranks. The reality... View Details
Critics of D.E.I. Forget That It Works
Many organizations working on D.E.I. goals are getting stuck at the diversity stage — recruiting difference without managing it effectively — and generating frustration and cynicism about their efforts along the way. They are now at risk of stopping in the middle of a... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
development was evolutionary in nature. Companies first would release a low-functionality version of a product to selected customers at a very early stage of development. Thereafter work would proceed in an iterative fashion, with the... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
Compute Cluster Scaling Work 4ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- News
Progressing toward a better inner work life
- 28 Mar 2020
- News
Harvard professor shares tips for working from home
- February 1981 (Revised October 1998)
- Supplement
Corning Glass Works International (D)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Corning Glass Works International (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 381-112, February 1981. (Revised October 1998.)
- February 2023
- Module Note
Managing the Geography of Work
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Managing the Geography of Work." Harvard Business School Module Note 623-061, February 2023.
- December 2022
- Course Overview Note
Managing the Future of Work
Stanton, Christopher. "Managing the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 823-085, December 2022.
- May 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Managing the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
By 2019, leaders from the public and private sector had become increasingly anxious about how advanced technologies and aging global populations could affect labor markets, workplaces, and workers’ lives. Some analysts forecasted that hundreds of millions of workers... View Details
Keywords: Labor Markets; Workplace; Employment; Technological Innovation; Demographics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities
Kerr, William R., Allison Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "Managing the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 818-128, May 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- March 2012
- Article
How to Make Finance Work
By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Value; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Household; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
Greenwood, Robin, and David S. Scharfstein. "How to Make Finance Work." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- May 1987 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
John Deere Component Works (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Production; Budgets and Budgeting; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Consumer Products Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "John Deere Component Works (A)." Harvard Business School Case 187-107, May 1987. (Revised November 1998.)
- September 2005
- Article
Affect and Creativity at Work
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Sigal G. Barsade, Jennifer S. Mueller and Barry M. Staw
This study explored how affect relates to creativity at work. Using both quantitative and qualitative longitudinal data from the daily diaries of 222 employees in seven companies, we examined the nature, form, and temporal dynamics of the affect-creativity... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M., Sigal G. Barsade, Jennifer S. Mueller, and Barry M. Staw. "Affect and Creativity at Work." Administrative Science Quarterly 50, no. 3 (September 2005): 367–403.
- October 27, 1986
- Article
Why Dollar Bashing Doesn't Work
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and W. Carl Kester
Keywords: Finance
Luehrman, Timothy A., and W. Carl Kester. "Why Dollar Bashing Doesn't Work." Fortune (October 27, 1986), 137–138.
- winter 1978
- Article
Work in a New America
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Jobs and Positions
Kanter, R. M. "Work in a New America." Daedalus 107 (winter 1978): 47–78. (Also in A New American?, edited by S. Graubard. N.Y.: Norton, 1980. Reprintings include: Essential Sociology, edited by R.L. Ellis and M.J. Lipetz. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1979; (Italian) Quaderni di Rassegna Syndicale, Journal of the Italian Confederation of Workers (CGIL), (excerpts); Sourcebook on Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by A. Westin N.Y.: Educational Foundation on Individual Rights, 1979; Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by A. Westin. N.Y.: Pantheon, 1980.)
- 05 Mar 2015
- News