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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
data from 111 workers — college students who labored in service jobs — the pair measured job satisfaction and its relationship to whether workers were being asked to hide or exaggerate emotions. Their study,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
existing neighborhoods would improve the supply problem, which is driving our strategy to help owners add second units. That approach requires significant political will and a “Yes In My Backyard” (YIMBY) perspective. Should we distinguish between the unemployed, the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
enterprise is the best contribution he could ever hope to make to society. "Will the research capability of the company-our ability to discover breakthrough drugs-be stronger when I leave than when I arrived at Merck? Will our company be seen as one whose View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
to make informed decisions about treatment. To date, the Brain Tumor Network’s nurse navigators and social workers have helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag’s people-first ethos also guides the selection of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
“There’s a need for regulatory oversight,” he admits, “but these developments do open up a lot of exciting possibilities that used to be the stuff of science fiction.” Back to top Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) The phrase digital nomad popped up over two decades ago, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
You know, just totally a different person than normal. I said, ‘How are things going?’ And she says, ‘You are not going to believe it. I have a contract where I am feeding thousands of oil-field workers three meals a day. She said, ‘Wade,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
Our experience shows, however, that if that sector is provided breathing room for a period of time and is well managed, it can recover and become strong." Stewart cites his firm's representation of companies or workers in four industries... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
with visual evidence of the interaction between worker and machine. The collection invites the viewer to reflect on art and industry and humanity and modernization. In the image above, titled “War work–Hudson” (circa 1944, photographer... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
tools to provide direct operational support to election officials, tracked misinformation campaigns that undermine the integrity of US elections, and worked to fill the gap in poll workers and other election resources. (More information... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
for LEED status — the Class of 1959 Chapel and McCulloch. The School’s goal is to achieve LEED Gold Certification for all new construction and major renovations, says O’Brien. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Workers spread 64 cubic yards of growing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
can help us manage our own health care, but the technology is transformative in lots of unexpected ways. In some areas of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, PEHR technology in the hands of health-care workers has already helped reduce the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
skilled outside workers and managers while providing good wages in a country where the average person makes under $100 per year. Equally important is the project’s catalytic impact on future investment. The sponsors have decided to spend... 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 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
going to have to either train their workers themselves or go elsewhere to find customers. Bankers bemoan Dodd-Frank, but where is the financial industry’s proposal for adequate capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Firms... View Details
- 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 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
invention. What we’ve witnessed in these past months is so many health care workers and health care companies becoming instant entrepreneurs, and also public officials becoming public entrepreneurs—all of them inventing ways to keep... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
thus far, said Amabile, is that the research suggests that workers are incorrect in their frequent belief that they are more creative when they are working under deadline pressure. A dearth of time pressure, however, does not inspire... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
from the management consulting firm Accenture to help HBS study the shortage of workers for “middle skills” jobs—those that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a college degree. “There are large pools of unemployed... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details