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Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps current employees succeed. Read the report Featured Articles Companies Need More Workers. Why Do They Reject Millions of Résumés? By: Kathryn Dill 4 SEP 2021 | The Wall Street Journal Automated-hiring systems are... View Details

25 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

48 percent net internal rate of return (IRR) for investors over the course of the firm's first four funds. Given that success, investors are ready to substantially increase their capital commitments to the firm's next fund. ABRY's fourth... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

01 Nov 2017
What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

leadership might begin by changing the Visions and Values section on the current company web page to read: “We believe in our vision and values more strongly today than we did the first time we put them on paper more than 20 years ago.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

disqualification or else simply stay home because they would be disqualified from the award regardless. Also, while punctuality improved during the first few months of the program, old patterns of tardiness started to emerge in later... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

certain firearms from stores and restrict gun sales. 8. You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life Before you give notice and go on a vision quest, consider this: Fulfillment doesn't require big change, says research by... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

integration along multiple dimensions,” Edelman says. First focus on clear, narrow goals that are more specific than “boost sales.” Next, consider your methods for collecting data; it should be both broad in terms of the range of data to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

reportedly linked to job-related misery. In a landmark ruling in 2019—the first of its kind—a French court found that a number of executives at France Télécom had fostered an environment of institutional harassment in the ruthless means... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is through whatever opportunities for learning, problem-solving, and creativity exist in the job itself. The second is through understanding the role... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

22 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

the work they’re asked to do, and helps develop the soft skills that are useful in any field. Workers who completed the program received a raise and had increased job opportunities; however, many complained that it lacked clarity and that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

09 May 2016
Blog Post

What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

ten courses from the same professors, and sits in the exact same seats every day. Outside of class, your section plans events to get to know each other in the first semester, and celebrations to spend more time together in the second... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

financing around the discontinuity. This might suggest that financing is not a central input of angel groups. September 2014 (Revised December 2014) Case The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art By: Mukti Khaire and Nancy Hua Dai Since its opening in Beijing in November... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

19 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience

philosophers and concepts was Baruch Spinoza who wrote, “Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.” At first glance, HBS’s section experience seems almost random. Put 94 people... View Details

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

from home, first to Italy and then to Michigan for five years with another 1.5-year detour back to Italy along the way. After seven years living outside of Canada, Memme knew it was time to come home to be near his family, which would... View Details

10 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange... View Details

Keywords: by April White

21 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

January 2013
Supplement

Austal, Ltd. (B)

By: Willy Shih, Margaret Pierson and Dawn H. Lau

Austal, Ltd. was an Australian builder of high-speed passenger ferries. It had translated that expertise into a foothold in the defense market on the US Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program with an Alabama assembly facility. In January 2009 it had just completed the... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Ship Transportation; Transportation Industry; Australia; United States; Alabama; Philippines

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Purchase

01 Mar 2024
News

Counter Intelligence

When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of remote work was abrupt and widespread in jobs suitable for telework according to the task-based measure from Dingel and Neiman (2... More... View Details

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