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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Climate Change as Must-See TV

scientists to investigate human causation of climate change. Video Embed Dan Abbasi (MBA 1998) hopes to enlist the HBS alumni community in the political movement for climate change. He calls his fellow alumni "probably the most powerful... View Details
Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment
  • November 15, 2022
  • Article

Using Simulations to Upskill Employees

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Trond Aas, Alex Hunt and Huw Newton-Hill
Reskilling employees tops the agenda in many organizations, according to a LinkedIn report. Korn Ferry estimates an 85-million person talent shortage by 2030, and McKinsey likens the challenge to the shift from agricultural to manufacturing work that occurred in the... View Details
Keywords: Employee Engagement; Managing People; Talent Development; Training; Human Capital; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Retention; Personal Development and Career
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  • Profile

Lara Hodgson

we’re letting her talk. What are your biggest concerns? The human capital side of growing quickly. We’ve validated the model and you want to grow by hiring. I prioritize mindset over skillset, which is easy... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a single, simple portal and an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • March 2015
  • Case

Clifford Chance: Women at Work

By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly and Stephanie Marton
It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female associates. A memo entitled "Speaking Effectively" was just issued to... View Details
Keywords: Women; Law; Fairness; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Human Capital; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Public Opinion; Problems and Challenges; Legal Services Industry; United States
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  • 2015
  • Chapter

Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Books

firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward stateowned enterprises, which... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Management Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Ryan Buell Managing Service Operations Technology & Operations Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Monique Burns Thompson Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Jeffrey Bussgang Field Course: Venture View Details
  • 2004
  • Chapter

The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market

Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Urban Scope; Rural Scope
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  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A) In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Business of Biotech

With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Trade Off

trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry.... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Books

Work, by Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak, is the first book to examine and explain the role that social capital — the value inherent in human connections, including trust, personal networks, and a sense of... View Details
Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

capital, particularly from international sources. This acts as a constraint on growth. Thus, by adopting International Accounting Standards and really becoming a leader in the field, India could lower their domestic firms' barriers to international markets. When you... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
  • Article

The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings

By: Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers
In a sample of 2,794 initial public offerings (IPOs), we test three potential explanations for the existence of IPO lockups: lockups serve as (i) a signal of firm quality, (ii) a commitment device to alleviate moral hazard problems, or (iii) a mechanism for... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Compensation and Benefits; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Stock Shares; Going Public
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fish stocks as well as by View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 17 Jun 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience

Oregon, provided insight into the human impacts of disaster and the importance of community-centered resilience strategies. Drawing from her work in wildfire mitigation and emergency preparedness, she emphasized the role of insurance as a... View Details
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always prevail where “indeterminate View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services