Human Genome Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

millions of young adults in West Africa who are eager to embrace better opportunities through WAVE Academy (West Africa Vocational Education), an ambitious vocational program that finds entry-level jobs for its participants within six to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

22 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Motivate Me, Please

governments to get citizens to do the right thing. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Forget management by walking around. Decreasing workplace transparency can increase worker productivity. Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best Bonus View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
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New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting

planning, MBA Career Services will host a range of activities, including career fairs, panel discussions, and practice interviews to be conducted at various times throughout the summer. "We developed a summer program to support students... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

contracting with some more innovative commercial and Medicaid programs while advocating for federal change in billing codes and seeking FDA approval for the company’s offerings. DynamiCare’s biggest victory came in March 2022, when the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

February 2009
Teaching Note

Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for 709458. View Details

Keywords: Health; Employees; Cost; Policy; Situation or Environment; Innovation and Invention; Contracts; Programs; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; United States

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May 24, 2016
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Build a Culture of Health

By: John A. Quelch

Every company, large and small, has an impact on health. It does so in four ways: first, through the healthfulness and safety of the products and services it sells; second, through its attention to employee health and well-being in its work practices and benefits;... View Details

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23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to pursue this research? Amy Edmondson: This research, rather than being a single project, is part of a fifteen-year program of a half dozen or so projects in different settings, all focused on learning in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the completion of the Human View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2012
News

Great Expectations

a significant investment of human and financial capital. Support from alumni and friends has been and will continue to be a crucial element of our success. It gives us the courage to build on our legacy. Your support and your expectations... View Details

Keywords: Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

Latin America Latin America Appreciating One’s Humanity as a Leader Pictured: Karen Bruck, a vice president at MercadoLibre, is the protagonist of a case highlighting the challenges of helping employees to succeed. Danyel O’Connor (PLD... View Details

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

an ice-cream truck to enjoy a sweet treat. Milestone Celebrations It has become a tradition to honor long-time employees. The program acknowledges staff milestones every five years. Ellen Mahoney (Chief View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children

with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Corey, Lombard Remembered

and coauthored several books and other materials on human relations. In 1962, he largely put aside teaching duties when he was named associate dean for educational affairs, a key position from which he guided the development and... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Since joining PwC in 1999, Elena has served in a variety of Human Capital roles and spearheaded the firm's signature Vanguard program, a year-long leadership development program for the firm’s Black/African... View Details

05 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

coauthors are Walter Swap, professor of psychology emeritus and former chairman of the Psychology Department at Tufts University, and Gavin Barton, principal and founder of GB Performance Consulting. book excerpt Bank Of America's Onboarding View Details

Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking

01 Oct 2001
News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

firm following a turnover is largely determined by two factors: whether the turnover is forced or natural and whether an internal or external candidate is selected as the successor. To understand better the inner workings of the chief executive change process, Khurana... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

situation. They told us, you know, the snake gets to a set of stairs and it can't climb the set of stairs. So, a human being has to somehow program it for those specific stairs. Where, you as a human, if you... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

Portrait Project

Assaf Harlap

Japanese teacher — the tallest 4'-10" woman I have ever met. The lesson was consistent: They expected more from me, a lot more. In 2004, I took these lessons and have doubled-down my bets on education, the power of human potential,... View Details

02 Feb 2017
News

Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and... View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Chicago's difficult decision recently to close a number of schools, given that there were too many facilities for too few students. The goal is for the remaining students to thrive with more resources per capita, with a focus on developing View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

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