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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
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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 2ms 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

16 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

of capitalism. Slave owners were able to collect data on their workforce in ways that other business owners couldn't because they had complete control over their workers. They didn't have to worry about turnover or recruiting new workers,... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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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

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

Many well-meaning companies want to diversify their workforces but face an all-too-common problem: They take great pains to hire more women and people of color, only to find that these employees don’t stick around long. At one midsize... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large, both for stock market investors and non-investors; (ii) concerns about the treatment of workers and CEO pay rank highest, higher than concerns about View Details

30 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

be constantly looking attentive for hours.” How managers can be mindful The pandemic workforce has created a significant challenge for managers, Sadun says. She offers three pieces of advice to leaders of remote workforces: Empathize with... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

companies, and markets. 10:45 a.m. Rebuilding Industry and Infrastructure: The Need for a New Climate Workforce Faculty Moderator: Eleanor Laurans (MBA 2006) , Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Evette Ellis , Cofounder... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

relations with the remaining workforce and the press. This process becomes much more complicated when management's compensation is tied to the financial success of the restructuring through stock options and other incentive compensation.... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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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Video Archive - Business & Environment

Accountability is Key to Climate Performance Highlights Video: Accountability is Key to Climate Performance 10 May 2023 Highlights Video: The Case for a New Climate Workforce and New Training Methods Highlights Video: The Case for a New... 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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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

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Events - Business & Environment

empowering the next generation of policy leaders, shaping a skilled workforce to drive cost-effective, sustainable, and healthy food and agriculture policies. Food Policy Pathways supports students, early-career professionals, and career... View Details

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Events - Health Care

infrastructure to workforce management and technology. To set the stage for our discussion, here are a few key questions to consider: -What role should centralized care play in a world increasingly focused on bringing services closer to... View Details

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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