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June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Teaching Note

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details

Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career

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your company's human resources office to find out if your employer matches charitable gifts and to learn about associated policies and procedures. If you have questions, call Harvard Alumni and Development Services at 617.495.1750 or... View Details

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Networking Events - Recruiting

employers to bring it. Brief introduction followed by interactive discussion and Q&A Up to 8 students per timeslot May select 20, 30, or 45-minute timeslots Option for consecutive timeslots (example: 4:00-6:00pm with four 30-minute... View Details

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

employees are so positive about their employer and that Southwest has so long outperformed its industry, and, incidentally, has never had a strike by its union. [div class=infogram-embed data-id="_/fjmbZDfFzW1UCzF787gp"][/div] Johnson... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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Resources for New Alumni - Alumni

resume in the Class of 2025: 2nd Year Spring Recruiting Resume Book, which CPD will continue to promote to employers until August 31. Research Tools View offer timing, sources and aggregated compensation by industry, function, location,... View Details

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may include, as determined by alumni participants: contact information, employment history, interests, photos, personal statements, and education history and map information (see below). Alumni also are also able to see their own history... View Details

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

rising inequality over the past 40 years. So, in that sense, there's a little bit of good news in our paper from an inequality perspective,” says Wilmers, who focuses on wage and earnings inequality. “It's not that this is a conscious thing that View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Oct 2023
News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

covered by employers (which has an impact on participant diversity), growing demands for programming on emerging trends like ESG and AI, and a rising interest in blended programs, which offer both in-person and virtual components.... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

iStock Thinking about the fast-approaching era of artificial intelligence, employers rejoice in the increases to productivity such tools could bring, while workers are more likely to calculate the time left before R2-D2 takes over their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2012
Working Paper

Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Performance; Economics

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15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

valuable in discovering options you didn’t already know about. “This social theory, which has been influential over the last hundred years, says that weak ties are more beneficial for employment opportunities, promotions, and wages than... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

references, corporate political action, social media, sea level rise, employment of people with disabilities, and the like. For example, instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community... View Details

16 Jul 2007
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Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

how time-to-implementation from the moment of decision affects preferences for should options. We looked at scenarios that involved want-should conflict like support for a policy that would benefit one's employer but would be costly to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

In 1883 railroad executives met to establish a system of Standard Time in four time zones in the United States. Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 215. Copyright ©... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

not quite, within financial reach of the mass of the consuming public. New credit practices, like the installment plan, helped to bridge the gap. New credit practices were also necessary to accommodate the new employment structures of... View Details

28 Sep 2011
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The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

real wages have not been increasing, although compensation often falls rather low on the list of things that employees seek out of the employment "deal." Q: What is the culture cycle? A: The culture cycle begins with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2019
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Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

new employer coming to town. Wouldn’t all these new employees cause traffic congestion and overwhelm the rickety subway lines that serve Long Island City? (It didn’t help that Amazon didn’t pledge to invest in better local... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Susanna Gallani : Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Jonas Heese : Winner of the 2021 FESE De La Vega Best Paper Award for “Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?” Krishna G. Palepu : Winner of the 2021... View Details

09 Jun 2022
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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

encourage incoming students to do an internship that is valuable and interesting to them. Many opportunities will come, but have patience waiting for the right one. In my case, I was going back to McKinsey—who was also my employer before... View Details

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