Human Capital Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is an economics-centered, multidisciplinary program... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

developed an influential body of work about justice, starting from the premise that ignorance might just be bliss. His theories were designed to consider a monumental, if esoteric, question: If you were in charge of the world and had to... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

Brittany Davis

Brittany is a General Partner at Backstage, identifying and investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies for the fund and Accelerator. She has led investments in the fund, as well as the selection of 24 companies into Backstage Accelerator to receive investment and... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital;#30;#Fashion, Beauty, Apparel, & Retail;#31;#Finance;#56;#Personal Health & Wellness;#19;#Digital Health;#20;#Ecommerce

Profile

Mina Kazanlieva

community she saw at HBS. "People here are passionate about diverse ideas and causes. You come here to get involved in new interests, new ideas, new things that are important." Professor Robert Kaplan's Authentic Leadership View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

in the midst of a digital revolution, Sandy Carter (MBA 1989) told attendees of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s annual conference during the November gathering in Cambridge. Carter, IBM’s general manager for ecosystem development... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and venture... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

needed. In his working paper, "Sustainability and the Firm," HBS associate professor Forest L. Reinhardt draws on the economics and accounting literature in developing a two-part test for sustainability that makes sense from an economic... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

alumni have navigated this past year and provide important insights about the strength of our community. Here is our roundup of notable posts published in 2020: Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles The Class of 2021 is facing a time unlike any other... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Smaller than We Thought? The Effect of Automatic Savings Policies

By: James J. Choi, David Laibson, Jordan Cammarota, Richard Lombardo and John Beshears

Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on retirement savings. Our analysis of 401(k) plans incorporates the facts that employees frequently leave firms (often before matching contributions... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Saving; Retirement; Behavioral Finance; Compensation and Benefits

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22 Dec 2021
News

How Do I Navigate a New Senior Role?

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

December 2022
Supplement

Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes

Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details

Keywords: Labor Markets; Freelancers; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Employment; Digital Platforms; Global Range; Adoption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Employment Industry; Information Industry; Australia; United States; Philippines

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15 May 2015
Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

I first learned about the 2+2 Program after an older friend from Vanderbilt, my undergraduate college, applied and was accepted into the inaugural class in 2008. My undergraduate background was in political science and human and... View Details

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

Doctoral candidate Dafna Bearson’s (she/her) interests lie at the intersection of technology, human capital, and business strategy. “How do businesses adjust in the face of new technologies? Why might similar businesses make different... View Details

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

and grow cohesive teams with a tribe of supporters and advisers. “We saw this as a moment to focus on the human side of learning and connecting in a remote world,” said Wallace. “How do you build a startup when you’re all in different... View Details

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

quarters of strong revenue growth. James Hoffman, the new Senior Vice President of Human Resources, fears that the chain of success is shifting the company's focus away from effective performance management. Recently, Vitality has been... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Ellen Harris

Ellen (HGSE ’86) is the Director of Outward Bound Professional/Facilitator at Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional where she is responsible for business development and corporate team and leadership development. Ellen enjoys working... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

industry. Before RMI, I worked for a distributed generation developer that specializes in combined heat and power and ground source heat pumps where I was part of their analytics team, constructing renewables. How did you become... View Details

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