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2025 Teaching Material Skills-First Talent Management: The Importance of Managers By: Boris Groysberg , Nicole Zelazko, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams, Izzy Yeoh and Colleen Ammerman This note supplements a 2025 series on skills-first View Details

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Hire Talent Post a Job Hire Talent Post a Job Promote job opportunities to our extensive network of students and alumni at no cost on the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty . To attract a broad population of... View Details

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

2018 Redwood City, Stanford Business Books The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Research Questions

By: Anita Elberse

One overarching question drives my research: What are effective marketing strategies for managers in creative industries?

I focus on three sub-questions:

How can managers in creative industries effectively manage products and product... View Details

November 2017 (Revised June 2019)
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JOE & THE JUICE Crosses the Atlantic (with video link)

By: Ethan Rouen and Suraj Srinivasan

As JOE & THE JUICE began its rapid U.S. expansion in 2017, its founder and CEO, Kaspar Basse, fretted about how he could keep his employees feeling like they were doing meaningful work. Founded in 2001, JOE & THE JUICE had always focused on making healthy juices,... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Retention; Expansion; Growth Management

2016
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Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts

By: Susanna Gallani

Effective design of executive compensation contracts involves choosing and weighting performance measures, as well as defining the mix between fixed and incentive-based pay components, with a view to fostering talent retention and goal congruence. The variability in... View Details

Keywords: Compensation Design; Board Interlocks; Compensation Consultants; Network Centrality; Homophily; Quadratic Assignment Procedure; Blockholders; Executive Compensation

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June 2008
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The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque

A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives

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05 Dec 2023
Cold Call Podcast

What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing

Keywords: Re: Mark N. Roberge

2023
Working Paper

Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr

The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: geographic competition between localities for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for their new destinations and reverse net... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Human Capital; Geographic Location; Civil Society or Community; Motivation and Incentives

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February 2023
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Enstitute

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar and Sarah Mehta

Shaila Ittycheria (MBA ’10) founded the nonprofit organization Enstitute, in 2012 in New York City. Determined to challenge the status quo within higher education, Shaila and her cofounder sought to expand opportunities for talented young people by placing them in... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Education Industry; Employment Industry; United States

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Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Details for Students (login required) Details for Organizations Overview Launched in 2001, the Leadership Fellows program has placed 305 Fellows with 104 organizations, with a focus on two key objectives: Providing social-sector organizations with access to analytic... View Details

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

Middle management used to be the place where careers stalled, but the COVID-19 pandemic has turned that notion on its head. In fact, mid-level leaders possess more agency now than at any other time in recent history. The tight job market is opening up new opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

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Leadership Fellows

Hire Talent Leadership Fellows Hire Talent Leadership Fellows What is the Leadership Fellows Program? The Leadership Fellows program offers nonprofit and public-sector organizations the opportunity to... View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Support Their Caregiving Employees Danielle Kost 07 Feb 2019 | Forbes Wanted: Elder transportation solutions Mitchell Hartman 30 Jan 2019 | Marketplace Workplaces Aren't Paying Attention To The Growing Caretaking Crisis, And It's Costing Them View Details

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Research - Managing the Future of Work

Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines Building From the Bottom Up By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman NOV 2024 Report The British Opportunity Index By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph... View Details

31 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

of the insights and talents of employees from historically marginalized groups. Research identifies “principle-practice gap” In her qualitative research on what she and her co-author Jonathan Cox call the “principle-practice gap,”... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

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Access Resumes

Hire Talent Access Resumes Hire Talent Access Resumes The HBS Resume Books are a no-cost dynamic resource for finding candidates on the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty , with candidates updating resumes... View Details

July 2020 (Revised May 2021)
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Oxygen Esports

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On May 4, 2020, a press release from Boston, Massachusetts, announced the launch of Oxygen Esports (Oxygen), a new organization that hoped to dominate the rising esports scene in New England. Oxygen was created from a merger between Helix eSports (Helix), an owner and... View Details

Keywords: Esports; Sports; Online Technology; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy

January 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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Chef Davide Oldani and Ristorante D'O

By: Gary Pisano, Alessandro Di Fiore, Elena Corsi and Elisa Farri

This case examines the unique business model of Ristorante D'O, a high end gourmand restaurant located near Milan, Italy. Founded by Chef Davide Oldani, D'O offers meals at approximately one-third the price of other Michelin starred restaurants. Oldani has made this... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Expansion; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Milan