Administration of Human Resource Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

what is clear is that the organization will have to be one that both consumers need and doctors trust, says John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

third party, the human equivalent of Switzerland," he says. Moreover, GM had recently sent Huber to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he became the first... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

radiation machine is present. This selection factor obviates those places where resource constraints (i.e., reliable electricity) would be limiting. In the context of sufficient infrastructure, and this... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a $25.9 billion program that prompted many hopeful startups to flood the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

reputations, and capabilities of big firms. Many organizations were already employing virtual hiring tools in some form as a way to reach a broader candidate pool in a cost-effective way. According to a Society for View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Q: What are the root causes of these differences in negotiation success? Riley Bowles: What some studies do is look at salary and control for a whole bunch of things: How many years View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

interconnected global community. So disease threats such as COVID-19 need to be recognized as part of the current work-scape and systematically addressed,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

poverty? A: Yes, there are many. Here are two: DaimlerChrysler some years ago, under pressure from the Green Party in Germany, decided it had to increase the amount of renewable resources it used in the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

improvement programs kept failing. Meliones created a leadership team with representatives from each of the three employee groups to redefine the mission and to develop a Balanced Scorecard that incorporated... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

courses were general and descriptive ("Economic Resources of the United States," "Railroad Organization and Finance") and taught primarily through lectures from the economist's point... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

and a set of human values that everyone could connect with. People around the world value trust, want meaning out of work, and want to do good and well. In the example View Details