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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

also got a “note”—thus far the only one of its kind in my 30 years of work. The lesson? The first mistake might pass, but never the next one. I made it a point to never misspell a name again, even in my phone address book. —Rohit Bansal (AMP 177, 2009) Waiting for... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 18 Oct 2024
  • News

My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • News

Job Hunting Nightmare: 1,000 Plus Job Applications and Still No Offers

  • November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

The JOBS Act of 2012

By: Lena G. Goldberg
This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets. Described as among the most significant change to US securities laws in over 20 years, the Jobs Act may reduce the burdens... View Details
Keywords: Laws And Regulation; Crowdfunding; IPO; Quiet Period; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Law; North and Central America
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  • 05 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

improve their job performance. “Our work shows that if we'd take some time out for reflection, we might be better off.” In the working paper Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance, the authors show how reflecting on what... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Bloomberg: job postings

How can I find job postings using Bloomberg? Type JOBS and hit GO. From the Bloomberg Career Center choose Opportunities at Bloomberg to see postings on the Bloomberg website or click on the View Details

    Steven P. Jobs

    Jobs was a pioneer in the personal computer industry. He was instrumental in bringing computers to the masses – spawning a multi-million dollar industry. Apple’s attractive, small and inexpensive computers were an instant success. View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • 08 Jan 2015
    • Blog Post

    Job Search Days at HBS

    HBS places a high priority on academics and the communal learning benefits of the case method, so in an effort to support the school’s mission, students are not allowed to miss classes for recruiting purposes. However, we understand that students are balancing their... View Details
    • July 1980
    • Exercise

    Managing Job Search

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    • 21 Jan 2016
    • News

    Doing his job

    • December 2016
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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    • 05 Jan 2010
    • News

    Growing job dissatisfaction

    • 03 Oct 2011
    • News

    Putting Steve Jobs in perspective

    • April 2021
    • Case

    Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

    By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
    The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

    In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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      The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

      The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the  business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present.  A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details

      • 21 Oct 2020
      • News

      IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

      • February 2021
      • Background Note

      Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox

      By: Derek C. M. van Bever, Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman and Katie Zandbergen
      The Jobs to Be Done methodology is both a theory and a practical approach for understanding customer behavior and why people make the choices they make. Many practitioners, whether they work for startups or incumbent businesses, find Jobs to Be Done useful because it... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Acquisition; Attitudes; Perception; Theory; Behavior; Customer Relationship Management
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      • July – August 2005
      • Article

      Designing High-Performance Jobs

      By: Robert Simons
      Keywords: Performance; Jobs and Positions; Design
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      • 28 Mar 2012
      • What Do You Think?

      Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

      too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
      • 22 Jul 2013
      • News

      Massive Deleveraging Suffocating Job Growth