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- 18 Nov 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job
One skill every new employee must master is getting a fast start. Here are stories from the archives on what Harvard Business School faculty have advised about hitting the ground running. A Fast Start On Your New Job Your first 90 days in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS. “ some CEOs believe they can’t be silent when a proposed government policy might lead some of their employees to be subjected... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
financial results are material. But if employees are also a significant audience, then human capital issues become material as well. The Statement, a simple one-page annual declaration by the board, is values-neutral. The board can decide... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- Web
Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
mid-1950s, hundreds of employees worked in the U.S. Steel’s public relations department, which oversaw an estimated five- to six-million-dollar annual budget devoted to campaigns targeted at local, national,... View Details
- Blog
Why Does Your Company Exist?
When was the last time you thought about your company's mission statement? Maybe it appears on a slide deck that employees see in their onboarding process, or spotlighted in the annual report. Or perhaps your company's website features... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
feeling. What can be done to improve the office environment? Research by Harvard Business School professors suggests these problems are not only common—but solvable. Here are some of our most insightful stories about unmotivated employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
a quantifiable set of relationships that directly links profit and growth not only to customer loyalty and satisfaction but to employee loyalty, satisfaction, and productivity. The authors emphasize that mutually reinforcing relationships... View Details
- Web
Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
photographs A Basic Demonstration A demonstration of polarizing discs Annual Christmas Message to Employees of Polaroid Corporation, 1946 At the annual staff Christmas party in 1946, Edwin Land laid out his vision for the Polaroid... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
opposition.” How, I wondered, can companies similarly sharpen the pursuit of their mission and goals throughout the organization? My Take-away: If companies can figure out how to get employees to personalize the mission, then the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
is that their employees have a sense of emotional safety and can bring their best selves to work. The same is true in sports, especially when you have younger athletes performing under immense pressure.” Decision point: “I was cold called... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Common identity often provides a foundation for workplace rapport. Though gender is perhaps the most frequently studied dimension of identity among workers, little is known about how gender match between managers and their workers might affect team performance. Using... View Details
Keywords: Management; Relationships; Gender; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Colombia
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-032, November 2023.
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
millions of extra pounds in tax revenue collected. "I’ve seen behavioral economics come into play in a variety of contexts, ranging from employee compensation and investment decisions to corporate strategy." The letter is an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
ideology and addressed Davenport’s concern that business school students tended “to look upon labor as a commodity and to ignore the human relations involved.” Among the collection’s holdings were the kinds of photographs publicity... View Details
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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work
childcare and eldercare, it's in the best interest of employers to invest in fostering a care culture—one that attracts caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps current employees succeed. Read the Report View Details
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the Team Kurt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
employees they hire and the way they socialize those employees. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6795.html. Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care Even as “Obamacare” becomes an issue in the 2012 presidential election, policymakers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
companies to expense (count as a cost) the value of employee stock option grants beginning the following year. 2006 The SEC increases pay disclosure requirements in an attempt to increase transparency. View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
when one is angry or disappointed as an example, Roberts and Côté advise employers to “minimize the frequency of unpleasant emotions that employees need to suppress.” Thus, as Roberts said in a recent interview, “It’s best to create a... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
bet on industry’s ability to close the human development gap through investment tax credits. As he put it, “What if companies were given a tax credit for each non-executive level full-time employee based in the United States? Citing... View Details