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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • Web

Training Materials - Research Computing Services

Training Training Materials 3ms Research Computing Services offers training on a wide range of topics. Whether you are looking to review a training workshop you attended or learn new skills at your own self-directed pace, take a look at... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

consumers' technological skills and openness to new experiences, and that consumers' beliefs about the social utility of feature-rich products are predictive of their choices of such products. Further, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

is an essential skill, and where the science of negotiation is headed. Negotiation is a core competence for life, "not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions," they argue. James K. Sebenius is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and also help them form new work... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

about this limited-time offer. Organizational Leadership $1,850 Next 7-week session starts May 28th Enroll Now Elevate your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks 6-8... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been rapidly growing over the last three decades. In terms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Co-Founder, Julius Education “Julius is solving the talent needs of the climate transition by providing inclusive, data-led solutions to start and grow green careers. Our platform demystifies relevant jobs and career pathways, provides industry-aligned View Details
  • Profile

Peggy Mativo-Ochola

business skills to social programs Peggy came to HBS with "an awareness that some of the challenges in education can’t be solved by teaching alone; we have a lack of resources that could be alleviated... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • February 2009
  • Article

Just Because I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb

By: Amy Cuddy
We often judge colleagues on the basis of their perceived warmth and competence, finding clues to these qualities in stereotypes rooted in race, gender, or nationality. Many of our decisions about fellow workers are thus premised on faulty data—harming judged and... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Perception; Nationality; Race; Judgments; Competency and Skills; Gender
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  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

taught us the technical skills (“Butler Lumber,” “National Cranberry,” anyone?), while others were incredibly thought-provoking (e.g., BSSE cases taught by Professors Clay Christensen and Willy Shih). Few cases, however, evoked as... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • March 24, 2014
  • Article

Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran

By: James K. Sebenius
While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Nuclear; Conflict Resolution; Winning Coalition; Blocking Coalition; Strategy; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia; Negotiation; International Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Public Administration Industry; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia
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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

It is what Ron Heifetz [founder, Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School] calls the capacity to do adaptive work, to confront social problems that—like the problem of gender in organizations—have no known solutions. To... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

effectively, based on behavioral science. It's not just that we are failing to navigate difficult conversations, or that our social skills have atrophied thanks to technology and remote work. We are missing... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company and community... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

may work well when team sizes are small and there are limited personality conflicts." Ashutosh Tiwari, while questioning whether self-management could "prove its effectiveness in the long run," concluded that it might work "where View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 2011
  • Case

Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning

By: Linda A. Hill and Heather Beckham
Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important clients, Juan Nunez of Gramen Equipment Company, contacts Sunderland with a request: Nunez would like Attain content... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Interpersonal Relations; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Creativity; Conflict; Interdepartmental Relations; Talent Management; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution; Communication Strategy; Power and Influence; Service Industry
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  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products