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05 May 2015
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employment by industry, function, and location. A world map provides an extensive view of data by location Entrepreneurship: Discover how many students joined start-ups or founded their own ventures 3) Perspectives - A quick look into the... View Details

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03 Oct 2012
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Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

US. A "commons" fosters the process-oriented innovation that in turn contributes to the vitality of the industrial sector and the health of the economy. Respondents to this month's column were somewhat pessimistic that such... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Financing New Ideas - 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 Dec 2022
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Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club

appealing career alternative for a larger share of the HBS student population. Member Benefits ETA Club members enjoy benefits such as: Build relationships among fellow searchers, relevant professors/Entrepreneurs in Residence, and key View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number of a firm's employees relative... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Aug 2019
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Meet the PRIDE Club

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning MBA students and their partners. We build community through dedicated social and advocacy programming, and in doing so create a supportive environment for emerging leaders to engage meaningfully with one... View Details

05 Apr 2016
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Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

how to spend your summers. Amongst the current JD/MBA’s, I think we had someone on almost every continent and in almost every major industry last summer. My personal goal with my summer internships was to complement what I had learned in... View Details

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions,... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Jun 2023 Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them Becca Carnahan & Christopher Moore Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice... View Details

25 May 2023
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Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

HBS Professor Youngme Moon noted in an HBS After Hours Podcast, “There are so many industries that have a history of relying on the soft stuff, and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is... View Details

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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

image of the industry itself. Exhibitions like those sponsored by the NAAI played a part in fostering these intertwined ambitions. Nathan Lazarnick. Advertisement for Seagram's whiskey, ca. 1934. olvwork490159 Jackson Lears, "Uneasy... View Details

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How to onboard recently graduated MBAs - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 28 Apr 2025 How to onboard recently graduated MBAs tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies For large numbers of Harvard Business School MBA graduates, the first post-degree position is... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways employers can foster the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

professionals between the ages of 40-55 across the United States (U.S.), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of... View Details

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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

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April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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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

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Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Sep 2024 Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Looking around a Harvard Business School... View Details

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance,... View Details