Human Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

notice and take action, according to the research, published September in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study could provide an incentive of its own for businesses looking to attract and retain talent amid a... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

relationships with the right people. This crisis presents an opportunity for the CEO to communicate to all employees, including new hires, that the company cares about them and is prioritizing their health and safety during the pandemic.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Events - Business History

16 Nov 2018 Business History Seminar Selling the Revolution: Communist China's Capitalist Ambassadors, 1949-1966 Christopher R. Leighton, Harvard Business School Nov 5 05 Nov 2018 Business History Seminar A Social History of Urban Expertise: Between Techno-bureaucratic... View Details

September 2024
Case

Xendit: Hiring for Growth

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Claire Wu

In 2019, Xendit, a growth-stage Southeast Asia (SEA) fintech venture based in Jakarta, was looking to hire a Head of Sales and Head of Product to lead its next phase of growth. Founded by Moses Lo and Tessa Wijaya, Xendit provided payment infrastructure, modeling... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Jobs and Positions; Sales; Product; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Philippines

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16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

often fail. Why are consumers so blind? And why can’t scientists and public policy makers help them more effectively? A new study suggests that researchers are not diving deeply enough into root causes, consequently creating solutions, or interventions, that don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Indonesians by providing alternative loans and helping them to build a credit history. Business Track, 2022 Coprata Chase Moyle (MBA 2022) Sonia Grego Brian Stoner Business Track Winner Reimagining how individuals can think about human... View Details

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

information right in front of your eyes is not as helpful." Yet hope is not lost. Having identified the pervasive, often harmful effects of this universal error, the researchers' next steps will work toward formulating new methods of... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

institution whose motto, Veritas, impels us to seek truth, it is incumbent upon us to acknowledge and understand the ways that Harvard’s strength today was built on human subjugation and the systems—including business—that perpetuated it.... View Details

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

suppliers' production processes—whether it be their pollution emissions, the human rights of their workers, or the pay and safety conditions under which their workers operate. Wal-Mart's recent initiatives... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

organization consistently builds and reinforces such a culture, it creates a competitive edge that is hard to replicate. Excerpted with the permission of Harvard Business Press from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

150 other companies in signing a Human Rights Campaign letter opposing the legislation. He decided to make no public statements to support or reject the governor’s expected signature of the bill—that is,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

higher education His stand on workplace deregulation raises concerns about continued protection of women’s (and men’s) human and civil rights A reshaped Supreme Court could roll back protections to the View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

made me and Walker & Dunlop special. That sense that everything had to go right and when everything didn’t go right I had the right to get upset that it didn’t go View Details

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a second chance under the View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to broad-based ownership. “It is the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

pretty bad. The present is better than 100 years ago and much better than 200 years ago. Today, the tech world is building AI systems and making decisions that will use human inferences and data built on the past. So instead of mimicking... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

Chai, Kamen Bliznashki, and Courtney HylandHarvard Business School Case 611-057 Gordon Zong is trying to teach Chinese universities and research institutes how to do effective technology transfer and IP licensing, but he is trying to do it in an environment with weak... View Details