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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Media Coverage Media Coverage 19 Mar 2025 Me, Myself, and AI Reskilling the Workforce With AI: Harvard Business School’s Raffaella Sadun Re: Raffaella Sadun 19 Mar 2025 Hill Fed Keeps Rates Unchanged as Trump Tariffs, Economic Concerns... View Details

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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

01 Jun 2023
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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

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

28 Apr 2021
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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

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

suggestions, four topic areas emerged reflecting changes in the workforce and society. Namely, the Class of 1992 wanted to learn about the experience of women in the workforce as the numbers of women in... View Details

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

“social impact nerds” and went on a weekend retreat in August. This group, alongside the Rising Leaders in Social Impact, has been really grounding. It has been so fruitful to build relationships outside my section with others who are interested in education,... View Details

13 Feb 2012
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The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

organizations might ease racial tensions among a diverse workforce by stressing multiculturalism over racial colorblindness. "Shutting our eyes to the complexities of race does not make them disappear, but it does make it harder to see... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Apr 2019
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Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

says, noting that according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 12 percent of the workforce is listed as salespeople, a figure that has grown in the 21st century. Plus, the $900 billion that is spent on sales forces by US companies is three... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Rubinstein Business Track Runner-Up Qweek is a fully automatic cloud solution to workforce optimization and management. Qweek helps business achieve significant savings by breaking traditional rigid shift scheduling and using dynamic... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

support this new dynamic workforce to make sure they work at the top of their licenses,” Gresser says. “We are empowering and augmenting their decision-making because that first set of health decisions is one of the key determinants of a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

13 Jan 2020
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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

01 Feb 2023
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Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

at prescribed times or days of the week. According to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, who has studied remote work for years, totally remote workers constituted 15 percent of the US workforce as of early 2023, with another 30 percent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Sep 2011
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The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

A: Jim Heskett: One can only speculate on the sources of low job satisfaction. It could be a product of unmet expectations, possibly due to inadequate attention by firms to hiring, training, and subsequent management. Those entering the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

to restaurateurs as they decide which products to order. During the pandemic, many of these consultants were used to help restaurateurs apply for federal pandemic relief aid via webinars and one-on-one sessions. Once business began to recover, US Foods set out to... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

nonpecuniary perspective. Our core findings, based on 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,... View Details

25 Jun 2018
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In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

helps drive innovation and growth—and could even become more vital to global competitiveness in the future. “The debate is red-hot right now, but in the background, the workforces are rapidly aging in most advanced countries, and public... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

projection welder. “We’ve had a 100 percent graduation rate over the past two years of running the full-immersion WBL program,” says Gestamp’s WBL coordinator Mandy Bohannon. “This program is a win-win for the students and the company.” “They’re not talking about View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

30 Nov 2022
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Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

University; and Sorabh Tomar of Southern Methodist University. Investigating the value of diversity US public firms aren’t required to publicly disclose their workforce demographics or policies, but corporations started sharing more data... View Details