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01 Dec 2009
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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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

fees. My heuristic for these types of engagements is to assess whether they are performing a part-time role you’d otherwise fill with a full-time employee (FTE) if you could find them. These engagements should be time-boxed and outcomes... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

July 10, 2024
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Designing a Successful Reskilling Program

By: Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic and Raffaella Sadun

In this article, written as a follow up to the award-winning “Reskilling in the Age of AI”, the authors report the results of a reskilling survey that they conducted with chief human resource officers from approximately 1,200 organizations in the U.S., along with... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees

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27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program based on View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or View Details

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

have to go to women for your budget, you don’t dare disrespect those people in power.” Sexual harassment training and more training Simple policy changes can go a long way toward preventing sexual... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
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Development and Promotion at North Atlantic Hospital

By: Boris Groysberg, Lisa Leffert, Kerry Herman and Libby Williams

Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology (DA) at North Atlantic Hospital (NAH), faces several significant challenges. Staff satisfaction surveys confirmed her assessment that department faculty morale was low, the tenure and promotion system was... View Details

Keywords: Training; Employees; Retention; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry

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01 Apr 2002
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Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club

large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

04 Jan 2021
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How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 May 2018
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Spreading the Safety Net

greater societal equality and a fiduciary obligation to shareholders, she writes. Like so many companies before us, my company, Rent the Runway, had two tiers of workers. Our salaried employees — who typically came from relatively... View Details

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

example, some companies choose to have a career coach on retainer that employees can work with, or they will hire career coaches for employees on an ad-hoc basis for discussions around career progression,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

choose to have a career coach on retainer that employees can work with, or they will hire career coaches for employees on an ad-hoc basis for discussions around career progression, professional development,... View Details

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Career Outcomes | Research Associates

Career Outcomes Through close collaboration with top-tier faculty, Research Associates position themselves for future success in graduate school, industry, or research roles. A Research Associate position at Harvard Business School is an exceptional View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Elevator Pitch: First Byte

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Concept: “Alfred,” a food industry collaborative robot, or “cobot,” trained to assist in the assembly of items such as salads and food bowls at commercial kitchens and fast-casual... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; restaurants; food prep; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

06 Oct 2014
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Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

technology or software people are trained in. People won't flinch to make sure that their employees have the right tools and technology. Language is no different. Q: How are talent evaluation methods driven... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

20 Aug 2020
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“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis

they knew exactly where to look to find answers on HR policies, training schedules, and contact information. Looking ahead to 2021, Mason and Henley agree that personalized work plans and the employee... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Other Financial Services

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

Health Organization. Whil currently works with nearly 250 companies (including HBS) in 100 countries to offer short, daily online training sessions that give employees the tools they need to manage their... View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Sep 2022
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Scaling Hope

son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the addiction treatment industry. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery coach, supporting others struggling with addiction.... View Details

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Craig Husa

value to their customers. Craig’s ability and desire to coach team members, both young and old, has been a key to the success of these teams. “The only thing worse than training your employees and having... View Details

Keywords: Clean Technology; Energy; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Energy; Oil & Gas; Energy; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

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