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  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have benefited from her coaching and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have benefited from her coaching and... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49388 Enabling Versus Controlling By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: professional services; professional services; professional services; professional services
    • 17 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

    Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (Princeton University Press), looks at how craftsmen establish and fulfill professional identity while simultaneously skirting rules against the creation of personal artifacts... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 01 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 1

    clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular normative view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be accountable to everyone for everything? The... View Details
    • 14 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

    and mixed news,” says McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Women have seen employment gains, while some gender roles have remained firmly entrenched thanks to outdated household norms and workplace... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 14 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 14, 2016

    professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and harmful. It has dysfunctional consequences not only for individuals but also for their organizations. The authors discuss... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 24, 2009

    market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick'... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA

    effective learning and shape the distinctive norms and personality of their sections. Students quickly discover that the section experience fully engages them during their first year at HBS and beyond, helping to forge lasting friendships... View Details
    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    naturally that way; I knew too much about the politics of Asia when I got shot down. I think there was a lot of damage done by optimists; other writers from other wars share that opinion. The problem is, some people believe what View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

    “That’s not the norm in Japan,” she says. That cultural melting pot changed how Tanaka saw the world and her place in it. She wanted to keep learning about different cultures, religions, and politics, a desire that brought her to... View Details
    Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan
    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 24 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 24

    number of hours CEOs devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability, and CEO pay. Second, family CEOs record 8% fewer working hours relative to professional CEOs.... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 18 Aug 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

    professional workforce that experienced less burnout and often happily remained at a single company during their entire career. Businesses treated Baby Boomers as a corporate liability. Following World War II, Baby Boomers, born between... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
    • 07 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

    Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, which will appear in the journal Information and Organization. Perlow, Whillans, and HBS doctoral student Aurora Turek interviewed 51 knowledge workers at a View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Profile

    Tara Basu Trivedi

    late grandmother, who I affectionately called “Tima.” After a fruitful career as a history professor and researcher, Tima focused her energy on empowering impoverished women and eradicating illiteracy in India. She was a force with which to be reckoned, refusing to shy... View Details
    • 05 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

    creating opportunities for norm reinforcement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52457 Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By: Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

    research on institutional leadership, strategic contradiction, and industry evolution. Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation By: Scherf, Robert, and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract—The normative principle of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: February 7

    field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes project, pressured teams are more likely to engage in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne