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- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
Fixing the impression management problem Feldberg urges managers to be aware of these invisible pressures and for supervisors to hire more women into managerial roles, which reduces this behavior. She found that gender differences in... View Details
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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Programs Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute JUL 7-11, 2025 | HBS Campus Intended for teams of eight participants, including district office personnel, school principals, and regional supervisors who are... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
reflection?” In addition, Badaracco interviewed more than 100 managers, ranging from supervisors to CEOs, from 15 countries to learn how busy men and women today find time for reflection. He found that almost all of them do reflect, but... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 12 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora
responsibilities at work kept evolving into more influential and impactful ones. I tried to get the most out of that opportunity. What job(s) did you have during your deferral? I spent all four years working at P&F Flower Farms, an agribusiness headquartered in... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
New research suggests that if you break out in tears in front of supervisors or colleagues, you have a chance to recover. The key: reframe your distress as passion. Most people tend to apologize in those situations, says Elizabeth Baily... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
study. “Just seeing this race for the sake of it. And so we wanted to write a paper to help slow it down and just think through the risks and harms.” While the paper had already been reviewed by Google and submitted for peer review outside the company, Gebru’s View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
example, data from 2015 show that just 16 percent of existing US production-worker supervisors had a college degree, but 67 percent of the job postings for the same position required degrees, shows research by HBS Professor Joseph B.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
journals. Classic texts on the experiments included The Industrial Worker , by Harvard Business School professor Thomas North Whitehead in 1938, and the 600-page, best-selling tome Management and the Worker , by Roethlisberger and Hawthorne View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
Walmart planned for 500,000 employees to go through Pathways in 2016, the initial rollout was considerably lower; as a result, Walmart needed to revamp some parts of the program to speed up its completion rate. (Its Academies program, focused on training and empowering... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
weeks for a competitor. Be prepared during an initial meeting with your supervisor to politely articulate your concerns regarding compensation, prospects for career progression, the workplace culture, and any other issues on your mind,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
Christou, who got his first job at McDonald’s as a 16-year-old, flipping burgers near his South London home. What started out as a way to make money while he went to school soon looked more like a career, as he was promoted from crew member to View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
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Public Education Leadership Project
administrators School principals Regional supervisors Union leaders Teacher leaders Community liaisons Members of the school board, board of education, or school committee that governs the district Districts can build capability by... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
eight days during the study period. Hybrid workers spent nine to 14 days at the office, and the mostly in-office cohort worked more than 15 days in the office. Employees completed surveys that assessed their sense of satisfaction with their various work arrangements.... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business
Benjamin Tanner Johnson, MBA 1921 Benjamin Tanner Johnson was a tireless champion for African American owned banks and eventually helped found the New England People's Finance Company (an African American bank and lender). He also worked as a Connecticut state View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
find details on registering for Independent Projects here (login required) . IP registration must be completed by 8:30 am on the first Thursday of the relevant term and is not part of EC preregistration. Students planning for fall may want to connect with a potential... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
especially since many supervisors treat them as an afterthought, Cespedes says. “They’ll begin to pay attention to someone a few days before the performance review, and then it becomes mainly a compensation discussion about whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
supervisors and chatted with workers in green jumpsuits. She then sped over to DSNY headquarters, just a few blocks north of City Hall, to discuss the details of the agency’s emergency snow response with her executive team. “Don’t screw... View Details