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- 26 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health
Health Care During the internship, I had the opportunity to interview 30+ employees from their on-the-ground workforce to better understand their drivers of satisfaction and opportunities to improve efficiency. Through this, I gained... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 10 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Why the MBA is Still Relevant
I come from an industry that gives sideways glances at the mention of an MBA. “Tech moves so quickly,” I was advised. “It won’t be the same when you return. Taking two years away from the workforce is risky.” The MBA isn’t exactly praised... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively easy to port across... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process - Recruiting
the room when screening resumes and ensure there is a diversity of abilities and experiences among staff so that your workforce doesn’t stay or become homogenous. “It’s helpful to have another voice in the room to say ‘Let’s think about... View Details
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Racialized Consequences of Objectivity" Jimin Nam presents "Differentiating on Diversity: How Disclosing Workforce Diversity Improves Brand Attitudes" McKenzie Preston presents "Let's (Not) Talk About It: Why and When Leader Input... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
So if a company’s dominant message is that it revolves solely around its financial performance, that organization may wow stock analysts but lose the talent war. With boomers retiring and Gen Xers aging, millennials are now the largest portion of the View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
comes from headlines we’ve seen this year. The Economist ran a cover story on the supposed new majority standing of women in the professional workforce with a picture of Rosie the Riveter and the headline “We Did It!” The Atlantic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
approach to performance measurement, and the importance of workforce diversity were first introduced." While HBR has served as a platform for innovation, the inner workings of the magazine itself these past 75 years have been marked "more... View Details
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University in 2001. His primary research interests are in workforce diversity (including, but not limited to racioethnicity, sex, age, experience, religion, and culture) and employee input... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
Photo courtesy of Deborah Singer Photo courtesy of Deborah Singer For all of its innovation, the tech sector still lags behind the general economy in gender parity, and the news is only getting worse: Whereas the percentage of women in the US View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
the largest portion of the workforce and already starting to rewrite the rules. Companies must learn to play by those rules or risk losing out. Gradual changes to the old human resources playbook are no longer sufficient. This post was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Home, a nonprofit established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing machine and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
mostly unskilled. They created molds for soles and other components that then could be shipped elsewhere for production. As a result, the local workforce dropped by 15 percent between 2006 and 2012. "What happens in some contexts is that... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
but also from kindergarten, so that young people are thinking and dreaming differently about their futures.” The scope is daunting but, for Wooldridge, success will entail changing the conversation. “We can change hearts and minds,” she concludes. “For me, success will... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
Two books helped to spark the trend. The first, Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the Twenty-First Century, by William B. Johnstone and Arnold E. Packer, boldly predicted that by the year 2000 only 15 percent of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
inclusion a specific yearly company goal treats it as a business issue. Just like setting sales goals tied to consequences for not meeting those goals, increasing diversity in your workforce is something measurable and it is tied to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
workforce is that work is a huge component of recovery. It provides community and structure, which is a good thing if you’re anxious or depressed. I stay healthy by getting nine hours of sleep, exercising, eating carefully, and taking a... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led its CFO to express doubt that Media General could remain in compliance... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
OnRamp: A Woman’s Guide to Re-Entering the Workforce by Catherine Clifford and Millie Froeb (MBA ’00) (YOR Media) A Time to Vote: Is It Too Late to Save America? by Jim Moyer (MBA ’70) (Tate Publishing) Free and Laughing: Spiritual... View Details