Employment Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2025
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Partner with a Student Club

about their industries and roles while engaging directly with highly motivated students. By collaborating with clubs, you not only educate students about your company and career opportunities but also deepen your campus presence and... View Details

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Elizabeth Gelb

provide insights into types of opportunities, recruiting requirements, and help think through alignment with personal success metrics. She is happy to help with career visioning, industry & company short-listing/strategizing,... View Details

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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details

William R. Kelly

Kelly was a pioneer in creating the temporary employment agency. During the post-war era, American industry was in great need for clerical workers and Kelly’s idea of temporary office help became extremely... View Details

Keywords: Services

June 2020
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Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)

By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu

Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon... View Details

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10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

aeronautics industry has undergone ups and downs in the past decades: Large orders of planes (and engines) and their cancellation can create prosperity or wreak havoc in these concentrated labor markets. This research surfaces the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

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Business demographics: number of establishments and employees

Where can I find the number of business establishments and employment size in industries? County Business Patterns has data for the United States as a whole, by county, zip code, and major metropolitan area. Business Dynamics... View Details

Career Coach

Shub Chhokra

Having worked across all these industries, Shub can provide insight on how these industries recruit, personal brand positioning, cover letter/resume reviews, career visioning/mapping, and interview prep. He enjoys working with students in... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Why Do Firms Automate Production, and How Do They Adjust? Evidence from the Bell Telephone System over the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum

Over the course of the 20th century, AT&T's operating companies replaced telephone operators with mechanical switching and dial telephones. Yet it took AT&T 30 years from the invention of the technology to begin using it, and another 60 years to finish installing it... View Details

Keywords: Employment; Labor; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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Alyssa Wilson

happy to help with understanding the industry and recruiting calendar, identifying HBS resources that could be useful, editing resumes and cover letters as well as reviewing stock screens & pitches. View Details

21 Jan 2020
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Meet the AFAA Club

circumstances to lead diverse groups of young men and women to accomplish arduous tasks all over the world. We also often have demonstrated numerous other skills employers desire, such as project management, strategic planning, and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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The NAAI Exhibition Opens - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Illustrators, 1934. Barnaba Studios. The Pipe- For Johns--Manville, ca. 1934. olvwork490051 When the photographic exhibition sponsored by the National Alliance of Art and Industry (NAAI) and the Photographic Illustrators, Inc. opened in... View Details

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Careers, associations and events: medical devices

Where can I find information about major industry associations and events for my career development in medical devices sector? Careers HBS MBA students: See MBA Career & Professional Development HBS Alumni: See Alumni Career... View Details

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Sarah Hoffner

industry as well as how to leverage career resources across HBS. She studied Public Health and History at Vanderbilt University and spent six years as a Client Service Lead at Entree Health, a pharmaceutical consulting and marketing firm... View Details

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Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

Explorer tables which include easy reports with age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, household relationship, place of birth, education, employment status, income, tenure, cost and value of housing, year structure built and other data. ... View Details

07 Nov 2024
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Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club

at HBS and by helping those students get placed in competitive roles at top-tier A&D companies. A few of the things we do include: Hosting regular happy hours for HBS students and those at other local programs to help students grow their A&D networks. Bringing... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Site Credits - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Shelton Looms , ca. 1933. Photographer Lewis Hine. Industrial Life Photograph Collection Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details

04 Feb 2022
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Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

opportunity to represent HBS in markets around the world by building new relationships and connecting students with employment opportunities. More recently, the Energy and Cleantech industries were added to... View Details

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Introduction - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

olvwork490160 On September 18, 1934, a stunning exhibition sponsored by the National Alliance of Art and Industry (NAAI) and the Photographic Illustrators, Inc. opened in the gallery of New York City's 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The show... View Details

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Shruti Rao

Shruti wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the banking, private equity and venture capital industries. Having worked in these industries, Shruti can provide insights into how these industries... View Details

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