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  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

service sector? What role does it play in the US economy? Heskett: Leadership practices in the service sector deserve attention because this sector represents nearly 90 percent of employment and nearly 80 percent of gross domestic product... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
  • 2012
  • Discussion Paper

Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore
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  • November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base

By: William W. George
Since the 1970s, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region (MSP) had outpaced the nation in job creation and income per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Employment; Organizations; Transformation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
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  • 15 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

a large majority of those who contribute to the open source community do so in order to learn and share new knowledge and skills, over half cite direct payment for their work or the chance to improve their employability as motivating... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

empowerment. But for hardware companies also in the tech sector, it is possible that there’s going to be a lot less of that,” Zhang suggests. Climbing the career ladder The trend toward collaboration may make work more enjoyable and... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53689 forthcoming Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

By: Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Hybrid Work; Work From Home (WFH); Pandemic; Labor Market; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Trends
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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare
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  • Web

All Industries

Employment Data All Industries Employment Data All Industries All Industries Select an Industry to Access Additional Detail Pages: All Industries All Industries Consulting Consumer Products Entertainment /... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Recruiting

Employment Data Entrepreneurship Employment Data Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Class of 2024 Career Data Internship Data Joining a Start-up A start-up is defined here as an organization that is still... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • Program

Compensation Committees

trends in executive compensation Examine the impact of regulatory issues in different countries Respond to a more vigilant investor community Create successful compensation plans and processes Design better incentive systems and know the... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

HBS alum and Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo, demographic trends and the changing role of women in the workforce mean that employers must “do the math” when it comes to care. By not accounting for costs like... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

decade. These secular trends have profound implications for our theories of innovation and organizations. Our extant theory and research is increasingly uncoupled from the phenomena. We would be well served to revisit the nature, locus,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel