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17 Oct 2013

Prospective Student Lunch: Entrepreneurship

The HBS Entrepreneurship Club invites prospective applicants to join us on campus for an informal lunch. During the lunch, students will discuss resources at HBS around Entrepreneurship. (Note: Lunch is not provided but is available for... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. ... View Details

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

key theme in this module of the course is that growth is a dynamic process involving a balancing of market opportunities (demand) and organizational capabilities and resources (supply). Profitable growth requires getting this delicate... View Details

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Associations

freely available on their websites. Here are some resources that can help you to identify associations: ASAE Gateway to Associations:... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Terry Kramer, MBA 1986 & Suzan Kramer

access to an HBS education, especially those who don’t have the resources to attend. It is wonderful to see the spark when leaders, be they undergraduates or executives, realize they can do more in life—for themselves and for those around... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

less ambitious growth plans than affiliate organizations. While this finding is perhaps not surprising given that branching would likely entail a greater investment of resources by the central organization than expansion via affiliates... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

Usage and Policies RCS Policies 3ms All Resources Access is intended only for legitimate purposes which benefit the research at Harvard University. Access must be authorized by the faculty or management of HBS and our partners, and by the... View Details

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Finding Resources Baker Library Historical Collections maintains numerous tools for locating photograph holdings. Detailed finding aids outlining the contents of individual photograph collections are available in the de Gaspé Beaubien... View Details

06 May 2021

Investing in You: Financial Aid at HBS

Join us to learn more about how the financial aid process is one that invests in the most important resource we have - you! Hear from recent alums about their own financial aid journeys and the ways the Financial Aid Office supports... View Details

Profile

Joe Khoury

Business School is an immersion experience and a continuous self-discovery process. At HBS, I was able to hone my leadership skills and develop life-long relationships with classmates, professors and alumni. HBS offered me a range of View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consulting; Investment Banking

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Accessibility | Commencement 2025

online resource if you and/or your guest have specific needs. In addition, listed below are some additional resources that are specific to the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus. Golf Carts Golf carts will... View Details

September 2024
Technical Note

How to Pay Family Employees in a Family Business

By: Christina R. Wing, Maryann G Bell and Kara A Perusse

Family businesses play a pivotal role in global economies, contributing significantly to employment and wealth creation. However, managing compensation for family members within these enterprises can be complex. Family employees frequently intertwine their roles as... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Fairness; Compensation and Benefits; Business or Company Management

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2023
Working Paper

Trusting Talent: Cross-Country Differences in Hiring

By: Letian Zhang and Shinan Wang

This article argues that a society’s social trust influences employers’ hiring strategies. In selecting workers, employers could either focus on applicants’ potential and select on foundational skills (e.g., social skills, math skills) or focus on their readiness and... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Trust; Competency and Skills; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; European Union

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Spring 2023
Article

Incentive Contract Design and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field

By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin

This study examines how the design of incentive contracts for tasks defined as workers’ official responsibilities (i.e., standard tasks) influences workers’ propensity to engage in employee-initiated innovation (EII). EII corresponds to innovation activities that are... View Details

Keywords: Employee-initiated Innovation; Contract Design; Rank-and-file; Extra-role Behaviors; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Management

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October 2020
Article

Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino

How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity

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November–December 2019
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Head, Heart or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time?

By: Sebastian Reiche and Tsedal Neeley

To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, we conducted a longitudinal study of a mandated language change at a Chilean subsidiary of a large U.S. multinational organization. The... View Details

Keywords: Language; Communication; Change; Employees; Attitudes; Emotions; Globalized Firms and Management

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December 2015 (Revised January 2017)
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P&G Canada: Old Company, New Tricks (B)

By: Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang and Theresa Morin Hall

This is the (B) case supplement to "P&G Canada: Old Company, New Tricks." It details the outcome of the drastic reduction in office space from eight floors to three floors. View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Human Resources; Change Management; Transition; Consumer Products Industry; Canada

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October 2015 (Revised January 2017)
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P&G Canada: Old Company, New Tricks

By: Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang and Theresa Morin Hall

P&G Canada faces ongoing global pressure to increase productivity and reduce spending. Thom Lachman, president of P&G Canada, is seemingly out of options that will make a large enough impact without harming the business, until the idea of a radical space reduction... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Human Resources; Change Management; Transition; Consumer Products Industry; Canada

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1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
Conference Presentation

The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction

By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing

Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Production; Resource Allocation; Groups and Teams; Adaptation; Sports

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