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  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

influence has become increasingly international, with approximately 329,000 employees working in 75 countries. Now the world's largest information technology company, it recorded revenues of more than $96 billion in 2004. While IBM's... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of Innovation in Asia" during the 2005 Asia Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

feedback to the employee may be adequate but of limited value toward the employee's development Most people manage for performance's sake rather than for development, he added. Managers who manage for performance are more likely to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

service representatives to handle the majority of calls on their own, without transferring queries further down the line, it is evidence that the company places equal focus on its representatives (so-called "employee empowerment") as it does on its clients.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services
  • Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Vision: Learning Curve

approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

referred to as "the Bosses." The Total Quality Model had been a success in terms of company growth and profitability, sustained by the success of Mercadona's unusually high investment in employee View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

appealing for students who come from the armed forces and nontraditional business backgrounds who are seeking to build technical skills.” Banks offer excellent training opportunities for motivated students who bring valuable leadership... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • News

Hungry for Change

matter of helping people see the prevalence and consequences of hunger as well as the possibilities of a solution." An HBS Leadership Fellow at Mercy Corps, Zeaske has also worked at Jumpstart, a language and literacy organization that View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

indicates the answer is yes. That is, by enhancing employee value managers can potentially add significant value to an organization. This research is particularly important to recall this week, when, with the close of the NFL’s regular... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

or as trained brand ambassadors. By empowering employees to communicate in that way, leaders relinquish much of the control that they formerly exerted over organizational messaging. But they gain a great... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

about to start her next stage of medical training in the United States, which means that pursuing his aspiration now will separate them. All of these considerations raise three questions: (1) Is the timing right for Trinh to embark on his... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “We now existed for only one purpose: to win this war.” Edwin Land, "Annual Christmas Message to Employees of Polaroid... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to hire and train as many Afghans as possible; today, 75 percent of senior management and 97 percent of all employees are natives. Roshan launched as scheduled... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 03 May 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

or product doing what is, on balance, good for the business? Will their identification with an issue attract more customers than it drives away? Will it attract the kind of employee who shares the values implied by the CEO’s position? Of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

who are able to speak out. Lynn Offerman, writing in the HBR, suggests to the CEO that "one simple test of whether you're getting the feedback you need is to count how many employees challenge you at your next meeting." If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

companies were less and less present in MBA recruiting, and he believed that companies' ability to train employees within the context of their jobs was quelling their desire for MBAs with less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Letters to the Editor

small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders. Many of the private-equity board virtues Professor Salter... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2009
  • News

What’s It Worth to You?

lead. That’s why De Pree capped his compensation at twenty times what his company’s lowest-paid employee received. Kenneth Feinberg, the 9/11 special master, eventually came to understand that “all lives should be treated the same.”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses. Among the talent management issues being discussed: an increase in employee turnover, internal training and development... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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