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- 09 Oct 2024
- Podcast
Worker welfare: From theory to tangible good
Good Business Lab cofounder Anant Nyshadham on demonstrating the ROI of better worker conditions and getting from academic exercise to large-scale implementation. View Details
- 01 May 2024
- Podcast
Wharton’s Peter Cappelli on changing the talent equation
What are the consequences of treating employees as an expense rather than an asset? Cappelli argues that this “penny wise and pound foolish” practice hurts the bottom line by discouraging investments in a skilled workforce and prioritizing downsizing, irrespective of... View Details
- 08 May 2025
- Podcast
Upwork’s Hayden Brown on bridging volatility with contingency
"Freelance by choice" can sound like a rationalization—or putting on a brave face—but has the contract labor market improved for white-collar workers, as more, particularly younger professionals, opt in? A look at the benefits for both sides of the bargain and how AI... View Details
- 23 Apr 2025
- Podcast
ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation
The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling... View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
compensation, how can managers motivate and promote freelancers? "Managers can motivate part-timers or gig workers in several ways. The first is to make them feel fully included in the group. The second is to structure the work carefully... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Gentera into the largest microfinance firm in the Americas. Rodríguez’s interest in using microloans to invest in developing economies was first sparked at HBS in 1994 when he helped organize the Latin American Conference. Through a... View Details
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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
likens clean-tech energy production companies to the biotech firms that were sprouting up in the early 1980s. Their success, too, relied on government policy much more than that of general high-tech firms. He recalls former students who eschewed established company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
useful when jobs of the future are still being invented? Will jobs even exist or are we moving to a world of projects and gig work? How do you make sense of all this and more? In What the Heck Do I Do With My Life? Ravi Venkatesan makes... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
These are important livelihoods for Americans and the number is growing with the gig economy and the opportunity to work remotely. Then there are about 4 million Main Street businesses: coffee shops, dry... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
to serve as a director at York Street. “Also, I knew I wanted to come back and be part of what was happening in Sri Lanka.” A six-month strategy consulting gig the pair pitched to Sri Lanka’s Urban Development Authority, the government... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
several members of the quartet. Time spent rehearsing was time not spent performing and recording. They did eventually record the entire string quartet cycle on Nimbus. Folks who are able to play the way these guys play can get lots of View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing use of smartphones in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details