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- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
employ 27 million workers, representing 38 percent of the total workforce of publicly traded American companies. The team studied a wide range of industries, from manufacturing, wholesale, and retail to finance, insurance, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work
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 Loom Re: Willy Shih 10 Mar 2025 Harvard Business Review How Gen AI Could... View Details
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
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
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
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
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
your workforce to tap into their intrinsic motivation rather than coming up with complicated schemes for paying them based on certain performance measures,” Pany says. “People are social creatures. Support them so that people can be who... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
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
- 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
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
percent believe the technology will affect them personally. Harvard Business School faculty members share their thoughts below about how AI will reshape the workforce and the skills necessary to succeed in the years ahead. Joseph Fuller:... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
Many American companies have made a four-year degree a default qualification for entry-level jobs, elevating an expensive university education—with a smattering of internship experience—above paths that might prepare young talent for today’s View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
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 Mar 2024
- News
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
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
knows they stem from financial and strategy decisions, but also decisions the company is making around culture and values. “We're very committed to having a modern, diverse workforce and so we're embracing and celebrating hybrid work so... 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
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
training center to meet urgent workforce development needs in the local energy sector. With Techint’s tradition of deep community engagement and rigorous standards, the question for Bienek and her team was how to allocate the newly... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- 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
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
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