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- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
600 employers and 80,000 job seekers. In addition to offering on-demand workers through its marketplace, Apli’s chatbot and machine-learning models are now helping companies with mass recruiting of permanent employees. “Through Apli,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
down from 17.7 million in 1983—there has been a surge in pro-labor activity among low-wage workers as of late. Damon Silvers (MBA 1995, JD 1996), policy director for the AFL-CIO, says he’s heartened by these... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
project focuses on six key forces: technology trends such as automation and artificial intelligence, contingent workforces and the gig economy, workforce demographics and the “care economy,” the middle-skills gap and worker investments,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
i-lab Buzz
Approaching the i-lab on the walkway from Aldrich and Spangler. A kitchen lounge and video gaming area. There’s a small army of workers putting the finishing touches on the Harvard Innovation Lab, which will soon welcome MBA students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
artist-filmmaker who had never spoken the words “efficiency” or “agenda” in his life. Paradoxically, he was an extremely hard worker and prolific creator. For the first time in my life, I had time, and Tobias taught me how to use it... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
position at the new entity, employee-owned Avondale Industries, Connell quickly accepted. "It seemed to me," he reflects, "that a nation had to make at least some of what it needed, or it would be in deep trouble." Two years later, when the shipyard View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
improvement, and, ultimately, competitive advantage," he says. IBM's Global Workforce Diversity programs suggest how that process can work. In receiving the Ron Brown Award in the area of "Employee Initiatives," Big Blue, which is also very View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
we’ve completely gutted the right of workers to organize in the private sector, to be heard in the workplace, which is a fundamental human right. That needs to be restored. Not just because it’s a fundamental human right, but because it... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
comfortable home in the Boston area, and their children didn’t want for material things. The Feingolds had long been active in their community—Jeff had volunteered for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island in college, and the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
subjects—biology, philosophy, sociology. Clocks combine art (in their cases and dials) and science (in their mechanisms).” For the Industrial Revolution to truly take hold, for example, workers needed to own an inexpensive, mass-produced... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the company operates approximately... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
Firms and Flexibility As job security and long-term relationships between corporations and their white-collar workers become relics of the past, what will link these two parties in the future? According to HBS assistant professor Jeffrey... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators. View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
LAB The rapid advancement of the crypto sector has sometimes been compared to the early days of the internet. As the internet sprints toward a Web3 future (Web 3.0, the next iteration of the World Wide Web) that will enable users to View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
practices that enable them to respond to shifting economic and competitive forces while still making good on responsibilities to their workers and the communities in which they do business. By studying multinationals, she hopes to learn... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
just steaming around in circles." Even as Liz Claiborne circled, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's largest airline, was in the process of laying off several hundred managers, technical specialists, and clerical View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
far-reaching study included a detailed account of the daily activities of five women factory workers over a period of nine years. However, Bouricius has also uncovered some notable surprises, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
help you take active steps toward achieving your dream life. Former Wall Street investor, adviser, and author Tiffany Kent infuses specific investment advice with her personal story to show you how to take control of your finances and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
of the 1930s, because it’s the economic crisis against which all others are typically compared. Importantly, one of the most striking things about the Depression, according to observers both at the time and since, is that economic View Details