Workforce - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

employ 27 million workers, representing 38 percent of the total workforce of publicly traded American companies. The team studied a wide range of industries, from manufacturing, wholesale, and retail to finance, insurance, and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

UPWARD, a nonpro t she founded in 2013 to cultivate strategic connections and develop company-based programs to advance executive women’s careers. What began as a gathering of 90 women in Lambert’s backyard is now a community of 22,000 members in 19 locations. “Women... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Portrait Project

Alex Angelopoulos

I still remember the feeling of emptiness while evaluating my career prospects when I graduated college in 2015. With youth unemployment at 50%, I was entering the workforce in one of the worst job markets Greece had ever seen. I was an... View Details

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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

up over half of the college-educated workforce in the United States, for example, they are still vastly underrepresented in corporate leadership ranks. So, why haven't organizations made more progress in promoting women? I worked with a... View Details

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

during COVID. She also led the team’s health equity strategy and founded its first DEI program, in partnership with senior hospital leadership. She said, “the Goldsmith Fellowship will be instrumental in helping me achieve my goal of increasing access to quality... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services Research Staff Services 3ms As part of the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD), Research Staff Services (RSS) provides research support personnel for faculty as well as oversight and management of the Research Associate (RA) View Details

05 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)

Governor Ned Lamont’s team as a strategic policy fellow. Focusing on workforce development, with specific attention to expanding employment resource access for low-income job seekers, I learned a ton! But it was the human aspect of the... View Details

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Data - Advancing Racial Equity

White 993 77% 940 76% 985 74% 1061 73% 1085 71% Unknown 0 0% 0 0% 1 0.08% 4 0% 3 0% *HBS collects staff race/ethnicity data for U.S. citizens/permanent residents and non-U.S. citizens/non-permanent residents as an aggregate. Human Resources Analytics, View Details

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Career Networking - Alumni

your first post-graduate role, switching careers, or returning to the workforce after a period of absence, your job search begins by making a case for yourself. Learn how to market yourself to potential employers. Search the Alumni... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

making around culture and values. “We're very committed to having a modern, diverse workforce and so we're embracing and celebrating hybrid work so that we can give people the flexibility that allows those groups, particularly women and... View Details

26 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

listen empathetically, welcome input, and rally the workforce around a common goal, according to a recent study by a team of researchers including Harvard Business School Professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller, who analyzed... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

workforce development through tech. Jeremy Lizt AB ’97, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University; Dpl, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford Jeremy co-founded and was CTO of LiveRamp, a data connectivity company that was acquired... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Video Archive - Business & Environment

Video: The Case for a New Climate Workforce and New Training Methods Highlights Video: The Case for a New Climate Workforce and New Training Methods 10 May 2023 Highlights Video: Toward a Decarbonized... View Details

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting

companies consider who is in the room when screening resumes and ensure there is a diversity of abilities and experiences among staff so that your workforce doesn’t stay or become homogenous. “It’s helpful to have another voice in the... View Details

30 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

shift at the grassroots of the organization. Annual human resource surveys showed that only 20 percent of the workforce understood Mobil's strategy in 1994. By 1998, awareness and understanding exceeded 80 percent. From The... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the goal of developing a strong E&E community. Future of Work Club The club acts as a forum through which members can engage in topics related to the Future of Work, from exploring the substantial disruptions occurring in the workforce to... View Details

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Relative employment rises by an average of 13 percent. Lerner surmises that public companies may have more “fat” to cut after the buyout, while private companies may be more cash-strapped to begin with, and so the infusion of cash allows them to add to their View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

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