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- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
creating welcoming environments for LGBTQ+ employees host conferences for their industries. These events allow companies to share knowledge about the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce as well as the issues specific to the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
quantum leap into the future. You are waiting for us to act! We now understand. You have empowered us to lead change at the Bank." The World Bank at a Glance The World Bank is actually five institutions, formally known as the World Bank Group. Its View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was actively supported by the government in many ways while... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Traveled,” moderated by HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise associate director Margot Dushin, and a panel on manufacturing, moderated by HBS professor Janice H. Hammond. At the end of the day, the enthusiasm of conference attendees seemed to echo the statement of Ellen... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
materials industry. USG was otherwise a solvent, growing company. Bankruptcy was an option, but a successful reorganization was by no means assured. How would USG keep its highly motivated (and non-unionized) workforce and continue to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
offshore platforms as the organizational environment for your research? A: We selected this setting because we knew it to be one where the work is hazardous and the workforce largely male—and, in these respects, similar to the workplaces... View Details
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
financial services industry.” Paola Martorell (MBA 2026)During her career, Paola worked to empower a predominantly Latino workforce by establishing mentorship opportunities, translating company communications into Spanish, and teaching... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,” says Borkenstein. “Nurses are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
flourish.”2. The second major obstacle is one that’s familiar to readers of Climate Stories: locating and/or creating a green workforce to build and maintain the EV charger infrastructure. “We need concerted job training programs,” Erika... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Master's in Leadership program, and a Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. Tinsley is an expert on gender intelligent leadership, gender parity and workforce development, negotiations, and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
beginning his business, people were pouring into the cities as urbanization accelerated. The family farm and even the family plot, was disappearing. For the first time, women were going into the paid workforce in large numbers, as they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
changes in its workforce and shifts in the broader social narrative," she observes. "This type of study adds to our understanding of how organizational and societal practices work together." McGinn notes that over the past few decades... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
to work in a distributed environment. And then COVID hit. Blanding: How did the pandemic change or inform the topic as you were writing it? Neeley: The pandemic accelerated the completion of the book. I was able to distill the key questions people had as entire View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond this, attracting skilled workers to Germany was a national imperative; as the native population aged and its numbers in the workforce shrank, it would be critical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
founder and CEO sees performance measurement systems as vital for cultivating the competitive, innovative workforce necessary for Dovernet to win in a fiercely competitive industry. Dovernet uses quarterly top-down reviews and stack... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
(see sidebar). “What business managers and leaders most have to share with education officials lies in the domain of organizational behavior and human resources,” says Leschly. “Education is a people-intensive activity, and businesses know how to optimize a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
feel more relaxed, happy, and connected to who I really am. So if I hire you, I want all of you. You don’t need to be like me. I want your personality. We’re a very diverse workforce with a diverse product line to offer, which fits with... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
together and in an office. Workforces today, though, can be remote or hybrid, and many are global, making this approach infeasible and ineffective. Leading in this environment requires more reliance on culture and trust. Managers will... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley