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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (in this study, by the store managers), leads to lower employee turnover. On one hand, a centralized model of hiring can allow a company to ensure enough resources and efforts are invested into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior engineers and designed to help them be more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
society. That's built into the mission of HBS. It's not something you do as an afterthought. And it's not something you do after you retire. It's part of the job description. Third, it's not clear that the current system has produced the... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
I love to see if there's something that I care about—a company I've written a case on or an issue that I've covered—and I love to compare the articles and see what they share and what's different. I also really like IR magazine, which is a trade publication but does a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
allocation. Bower: One consequence of this research is that we have begun to get a picture of just how complex a job it is to manage a large corporation. And in this way, in a sense, we have gained a much better sense of how the corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the greenhouse effect, or global warming, and you’ll likely get an earful. But Mike is a little different. From his vantage point in what’s been called the second-toughest job in America, he really knows about those issues, and he knows... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
worse. And I just, really believed that entrepreneurship and job creation was one path to creating hope and opportunity. And that was something I really wanted to learn about and be able to talk about. And so, I really went on a flyer to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
glad to have taken the start-up plunge over a sure-thing job in finance. In fact, most would agree that nothing is assured these days. “These are certainly challenging times,” concedes Leiman. “But in the first nine months of operations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
papers. He noted while “some of the first-year students felt that their painful literary efforts deserved male consideration,” HBS had discovered that “competent young ladies could be employed and trained to do a more careful, dependable View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
a couple of young MBAs. But fate works in funny ways. For one, it brought Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) together in Section I. The two became friends and started dating near the end of their first year at HBS, but weren't quite ready to... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
$16 billion, and nearly 20,000 jobs could be attributed to campaign staffing, consulting, and lobbying. The political media also benefitted, with most major news outlets posting record advertising revenues last year as a result of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
just a US phenomenon. The proportion of jobs devoted to services has shown gains in both more and less developed economies for decades. We found that the US does not have a monopoly on great service leaders or best practices in service... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
in the ways they do business. Moreover, hub firms themselves must do a better job leading responsibly for the good of all, not just creating and capturing value but doing more to sustain other players in the ecosystem. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
"By emphasizing some aspects of the job over others, you can draw a different pool of candidates and potentially create different levels of performance," Ashraf says. "And as a leader you can help every individual to accumulate more stock... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
going into the job, a huge handicap that leads to poor foreign policy. Our leaders assume that the U.S. model of business and governance is ideal, with some small adjustments, for all countries and that our job is to go forth and remake... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
where one applicant out of 10,000 got a job at MITI — to change their world view and do something different Change is starting to occur. Officials are quitting MITI and the Ministry of Finance early. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is more of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
for examining this question. Results indicate that nonnative English-speaking employees experienced status loss regardless of their English fluency level. Yet variability in their self-assessed fluency-an achieved status marker-was associated with differences in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
since the Federal Reserve Board had helped to bailout investment bank Bear Stearns. Deflation, not inflation, had become a top concern. Interest rates were near zero percent. Five million jobs had been lost. The new Barack Obama... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace