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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
workers smashed the delegation's cars and surrounded the small group. “It was an extremely tense situation. I thought maybe this was going to be the end,” says Djelic. “I told them violence was no answer, and all we could do was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local industries that depend on their talents. (For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
technology management, and robotics to simplify and automate support activities. He also addressed dilemmas about whether to allow each division to adopt innovation at its own pace or institute it simultaneously company-wide, and the obligation of leaders to View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
from 45 to 60 percent.” Management method: “I’m a believer in situational leadership. I don’t approach businesses and teams with a playbook. Instead, I assess the situation by listening and learning what’s going on before implementing change.” First job: Line View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
home. We also added a single-parent component to the foundation to help workers like Mercedes and Jennifer with childcare. And finally, we established a new scholarship program to make it easier for employees like Albert to attend school... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
and cutting wages, this will reduce the purchasing power of Americans, shrink the tax base, and eventually undermine the business environment in America. Conversely, if workers get higher pay while American-based companies are not able to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
everything from cleaning to prescription pickup. But one of the biggest innovations was behind the scenes: Beck and Sapone eschewed the independent contract workers driving the on-demand economy in favor of hiring employees—full-time... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
facing Houston, one of the biggest is our need for talent driven by the growth in the region,” says Gilbane. “Despite the excellent universities here, we can’t produce enough talented workers to fill all the opportunities we have at these... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
probably come up with something that looks a lot like COVID-19.” Nevertheless, Yellen was encouraging: “I know Hispanic workers can power our recovery—potentially in an even bigger way than a decade ago.” Perez shares Yellen’s optimism.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
from entrepreneurs to historians to understand the ever-changing workplace. Beginning in April, the podcast started recording frequent COVID-19 dispatches on topics such as the pandemic’s outsized impact on low-income workers and the new... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
essential that all key public and private sector players work together to deliver payments digitally,” Goodwin-Groen says. “Those companies and governments that took action and can pay all their front-line workers and citizens digitally... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
experienced workers retire or move on? Leonard and coauthor Sylvia Sensiper examine such questions in a 1998 HBS working paper that was published as "The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation" in the spring 1998 California... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
without Losing Yourself in the Process by Andy Molinsky (PhDOB 1999) (Harvard Business Review Press) What does it mean to be a global worker and a true "citizen of the world" today? Beyond merely being aware of cultural differences, it... 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
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static... View Details
- 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 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 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