Job Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Feb 2017
Blog Post

The Making of an Internship

share the career criteria that drove their internship searches and how their respective organizations aligned with their passions. An effective onboarding process can have many benefits for both employers and their new hires, including increased View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Benefits & Compensation | Employment

Harvard offers competitive salaries that are designed to attarct, retain, and reward the performance of talented employees. Job Openings Staff Positions Faculty Positions Research Positions View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Health Care a Top Priority at HBS

mechanisms. Some 3,500 HBS alumni work in the sector, 600 of whom belong to the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association. Each year, about 100 MBA graduates take jobs in the sector; more than 40 students are currently enrolled in the MD/MBA... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

the same true for employees today, many of whom are performing their work remotely, outside the traditional office setting? We’ve previously discussed here the need for greater “voice” among “officed” employees as part of the effort to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

2020. Forget Cash: There are Better Ways to Motivate EmployeesIn today's tight job market, employers must focus on how to attract and keep top talent. Giving away stacks of money may not always be the best incentive. How Gender... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Thomas C. Høegh

Northwestern University, he returned home, cofounded a production company, and, as artistic director, gained a reputation for cutting-edge performances of both new and traditional material for radio, television, and the stage. In 1994, he... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

negotiation The researchers found that one of the keys to success lay in the way the two organizations managed tensions between their commercially focused production supervisors and their socially focused job counselors. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

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

time and resources into this important work. Review Job Descriptions Job descriptions have always been an important element of the hiring process. They serve as a marketing tool to attract candidates and the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

this may save travel time and costs, it might be preventing inspectors from doing their jobs more effectively. One possible remedy: Managers could impose a cap on the maximum number of inspections per day, and rearrange schedules to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Dec 2016
News

Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities

“Running a city is one of the most complex jobs on the planet. A mayor is responsible for overseeing unwieldy bureaucracies, managing budgets, making policy, implementing programs, bringing legislators together, harnessing technology,... View Details

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

with professor Robert Hayes. Key concepts include: Managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management that worked in the past. Companies must adopt a strategy for improvement that fits the specific needs of the organization at that point... View Details

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

businesses." Wulf hastens to say that the research is by no means a death knell for general managers, but their jobs may change. At the least, they will likely find themselves in more meetings than ever before. "The general... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

headquarters. Theoretically, it's the job of the executives upstairs to coordinate the activities of the various arms of a company to row in the same direction. "What corporate-level strategy is about is creating a portfolio that is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

assignments as frequently as every two or three years, performing a variety of jobs in military operations activities. While these short-term job assignments are satisfactory... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

Portrait Project

Matthew Naunheim

cures too little and costs too much. As a surgeon, it will be my job to perform microscopic procedures to eradicate cancer, restore hearing, and reanimate faces marred by disease. But technical skill and... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

stay, and job satisfaction of staff. In the study, the researchers looked at CEOs with tenure in at least two organizations and compared the performances of hospitals with new CEOs against those that did not... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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