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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
after the fall of Saddam Hussein. After the United Nations headquarters was bombed in Baghdad, most UN officials and nongovernmental organization (NGO) workers fled the country. That left the US military tasked to build schools and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Although many executives feel an urgency to get people back into the office full-time to rekindle a sense of connection, Subramanian says the evidence suggests otherwise. On the flip side of the same coin, a Gartner survey of 4,500 knowledge View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
people’s “realtime” experiences as they worked on creative projects. What were you looking for, specifically? We wanted to get inside the hearts and minds of knowledge workers to better understand the conditions that support or impede... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
too long to the mass-production model. Unable to halt declining returns and market share, it lost confidence in itself. That confusion contributed to a serious falloff in capital spending that further undermined productivity. Yet aren't American View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 08 May 2015
- News
Promoting work/life balance
As U.S. Secretary of Labor, The Hon. Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979) helped American workers address the competing demands of their work and home lives. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a company-based plan. The plan’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
(MBA 1976) of Extrusion Technology agrees. “I enjoy creating an environment that allows our employees to learn and change,” he says. “The labor force we hire from is generally less skilled, and we’re able to provide our workers with... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
practices that enable them to respond to shifting economic and competitive forces while still making good on responsibilities to their workers and the communities in which they do business. By studying multinationals, she hopes to learn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Hilfiger. But chairman Marjorie Yang doesn’t spend much time talking about apparel anymore. Instead, she’s talking about the importance of improving the livelihood of workers (which reduces turnover) and reducing water and electricity use... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line crews and gas technicians. “I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Golden Antelope Press This collection of 21 stories is organized into five sections, each with stories loosely focused on a particular place, time, and set of characters. The Blue Heron Lake stories follow a community of Latino workers... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
to invest outside the core market, because there is less noise, great founders are sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base.” Also: Denver-based Guild Education, a platform that gives... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
currently available brands and use locally sourced materials. The female workers ultimately will become owners of the business through microfinance loans. “Lack of access to pads affects not only the prospects of girls and women, it also... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
subjects—biology, philosophy, sociology. Clocks combine art (in their cases and dials) and science (in their mechanisms).” For the Industrial Revolution to truly take hold, for example, workers needed to own an inexpensive, mass-produced... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna