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- 21 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products
do the work to find those companies and help them grow.” A Dynamic Industry Needs Dynamic Recruiting Consumer Products is a dynamic and ever changing industry that attracts students who relate to, and are... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
U.S - he was struck by the owners’ lament that they just couldn’t hire enough skilled trades people, industrial painters and welders, for example. Their pain point led Sam to start researching the world of green skilled trades. Initially,... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries... View Details
- 07 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?
However, without buyers, the firm would have no sellers and vice versa. This kind of situation, which is called a two-sided market, is common in many industries such as real estate and employment services. A... View Details
- Web
Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Safety So it’s not enough for an employer to say, “I want a more diverse workplace” or “I am going to use automated hiring and therefore eliminate human bias.” The employer actually should do audits of the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output Authors: Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical: Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the influence of faculty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
Employers will come to us and say, ‘we’ve gotten the impression that we need to get our arms around this in some way. Our competitors are doing it.’” Prokanga’s unique recruiting focus encourages employers... View Details
- April 2000 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
Computer Power Group: Designing Brand Architecture
Computer Power Group (CPG), an Australian-based consulting, education, and staffing placement firm in the IT industry, is contemplating a brand architecture capable of structuring its eight branded business units. CEO Peter James is particularly curious about whether a... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Employment Industry; Employment Industry; Employment Industry; Australia
Fournier, Susan M., and Andrea Carol Wojnicki. "Computer Power Group: Designing Brand Architecture." Harvard Business School Case 500-060, April 2000. (Revised November 2000.)
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
flipping it and saying, "We'll be remote, so that your job becomes your university campus." And our thesis here is that the employer has skin in the game. This is their future workforce—and not in an ethereal, aggregate sense. This... View Details
- Web
Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library
early to mid-1940s, graduates of the program typically found employment in industry and government. Management Training Program students, 1940-1941. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe... View Details
- April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Handy: The Future of Work? (A)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Kieron Stopforth. "Handy: The Future of Work? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 319-103, April 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the global marketplace’s appetite for remote work, which had already become a $50 billion industry by 2020. But wages for the same remote jobs varied greatly, depending on where the worker lived.... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
First, it is critical that employers committed to diversity and inclusion assess their progress to date. What does the staff compositional data look like when broken out by race, ethnicity, gender, and other personal and cultural... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
of Modern America . New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2011. Whitten, David O., and Bessie E. Whitten. The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise . Westport, CT.: Praeger... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the computer View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Why Company Conversations Might Be Right For Your Organization
take it as a chance to talk informally with students about their previous experience and why they’re interested in your organization. Personal Setting: Company Conversations are designed for organizations to meet with up to 10 students, making it an ideal platform for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
Leveraging LinkedIn to Recruit Candidates
use some of the more nuanced fields. For example, search by past employer and look for individuals who have worked at a competitor. These are most likely people with skill sets that could benefit your organization. To avoid clutter in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
for assessing differences between countries at the industry level; tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for a company’s ability to create value; and creating superior perfor-mance with strategies optimized for... View Details