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Apprenticeships By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman MAY 2019 Report Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace By: Joseph B. Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman, and Alice de Chalendar 17 Jan 2019... View Details

27 Feb 2024
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Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

increases brand attitude, and the company is seen as having more commitment to diversifying the workforce.” US law requires companies with more than 100 employees to report their workforce’s gender, race, and ethnicity by job category to the Equal View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

15 Mar 2011
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PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the governing principle of capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details

March 2013
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Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers' Authentic Self-expression

By: Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino and Brad Staats

Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization leads to more effective employment... View Details

Keywords: Socialization; Authenticity; Self-Expression; Best Self; Outsourcing; Employee Retention; Organizational Culture; Retention; Identity; Customer Satisfaction

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

412275 MA5-527-02-07 2 Morrissey Boulevard Dorchester, MA 02125 Maximize Your Gift Employer Matching To find out if your company matches employee gifts, use our online search tool. Upon receipt, all matching gifts count toward a donor’s... View Details

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Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap Read the Report Read the Report To close America’s chronic middle skills gap, U.S. employers have to partner much more actively... View Details

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Baker Library Services - Alumni

Careers Baker Library Services Careers Baker Library Services Career research for HBS alumni is a top priority for Baker Library. We help alumni with their career research in several ways: Building a targeted list of potential employers... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

at any time. We find that employees who opted into the program kept using it. Among employees whose accounts were created early enough to be observed over the first 12 months after their account activation and who did not separate from View Details

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privacy settings chosen by individual alumni participants. Data in the alumni directory include but are not limited to: contact information, employment history, interests, and education history and are intended to facilitate inter-alumni... View Details

10 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

would choose equal pay compared to 52 percent of men. The researchers also asked participants whether they’d prefer to have a male or female employer. High performers chose a woman 47 percent of the time, but low performers chose a female View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

showed that 72 percent of Gen Zers were considering leaving their jobs in 2023, while a January 2023 study by management consultancy Oliver Wyman found that 70 percent of those who described themselves as “loyal” to their employers were... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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The new property: computational property, intellectual property, and cyberspace

The objective of this project is to design ownership regimes for property located in cyberspace, such as websites, links for e-travel, applets that run on distant processors, and other related computational species. The driving assumption of the project is that the... View Details

2012
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Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang

Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; Strategy; China; China

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Next-generation Strategy

The future of work is here, and leaders must embrace the opportunities presented by shifting demographics and new employment models. See past generational stereotypes Leaders and managers must see each employee as an individual rather... View Details

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The Caring Company

Research Research The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs And Boost Productivity By Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs By: By: Joseph B. Fuller Joseph B. Fuller & & Manjari Raman Manjari Raman By investing in a care... View Details

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

In 2009, a 51-year-old man killed himself in Marseille, a city in southern France, leaving behind a suicide note that blamed his employer for “overwork” and “management by terror.” “I am committing suicide because of my work at France... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jul 2013
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Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

more likely to be accepted than denied or waitlisted, the authors report in the paper. Furthermore, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 58 percent of employers won't even consider candidates with a GPA of 3.0... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Employment; Employment

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

has had in the workplace, including everyone from the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers to Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Consider these differences in employment conditions for the various generations: View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Hiring International Students

professional business function and employers do not need to interact with the US government to secure work authorization. There is no cost to employers and this is the first step to ensuring a smooth... View Details

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