Human Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

and the impact that humans have on the natural world. Initially, I wasn’t sure what aspect of conservation I wanted to pursue, but after taking an undergraduate class on climate change I became fascinated by the science behind it all. I... View Details

March 2015 (Revised May 2018)
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JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly

By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women coming back to the workforce after a period of time away. Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of Asset Management, and her team had to evaluate whether or not... View Details

Keywords: Women; Training; Leadership; Motherhood; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; Gender; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Programs; Financial Services Industry; United States

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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

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling performance against projections.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

at the top are typically not close enough to the "voice of the future" to see new opportunities, creating a bias against doing new things. In addition, this process is tied to an annual calendar; obviously, opportunities don't present themselves only in... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship. We started in the whaling... View Details

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

27 Jul 2010
News

Four Things Great VCs Do

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

alumni have navigated this past year and provide important insights about the strength of our community. Here is our roundup of notable posts published in 2020: Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles The Class of 2021 is facing a time unlike any other... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Teachable Moments

dean. Then, in 1991, a chance encounter with Morgan Stanley’s John Mack led to a position on Wall Street as the firm’s chief development officer, responsible for human capital and issues of organizational... View Details

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about interest rates, exchange rates, or... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

fluctuate like trade flows. People come and go. Today, of course, immigration has become a prominent political issue in the US just as the humane treatment of refugees is a current issue in Europe. If possible, let’s put politics aside... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

so the plants have quickly returned to their original CO2 emissions. Other dual-fuel power plants will do the same flip quickly unless there is a carbon cost in place or a high capital cost associated with meeting smoke stack air quality... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

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