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  • December 2021
  • Case

Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein
In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Expansion; Business Strategy; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Search; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Model; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

for open work practices between enterprises and digital labor markets? Keywords: Freelancers ; Labor Markets ; Internet and the Web ; Digital Platforms ; Corporate Entrepreneurship ; Human Capital ; Change Management ; Globalized Firms and Management ; View Details
  • Web

Women at HBS - Alumni

to work after a hiatus and for employers recruiting from this talent pool. They also manage a comprehensive database of corporate return to work programs around the world. Landit , cofounded by HBS alumnae Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) and... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers will see their compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

lifestyle, education, work environments, low employment turnover rates, and access to health care, I find higher-ranked employees at GE were more susceptible to a shorter lifespan,” Nicholas concludes in the paper. Job stress may vary by... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

public sector organization, or for-profit social enterprise with total compensation that meets the income guidelines. (See Income and Assets , Employment , and Awards sections). Loans The Program is designed to support graduates who were... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna
  • 2019
  • Book

Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience

By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo and David A. Thomas
Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people’s experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing?... View Details
Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Diversity Management; Inclusion; Leader Selection; Race; Ethnicity; Diversity; Leadership; Leadership Development; Employment
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  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

reported trouble staffing up when the economy began to recover. "Helping workers keep attached to their prior employers could speed up the recovery," explained Till von Wachter, an economist with the University of California at Los... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

perform better than firms who just connect with their customers physically. Recognize financial constraints. Many customers are facing financial hardship caused by layoffs, furloughs, and a reduction in their employment hours due to the... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Consumer Credit Built Postwar America,” Enterprise & Society 9, no. 4 (December 2008): 614–618. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
  • Web

Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Employers Are Upbeat About Seasonal Hiring Re: Joseph Fuller 28 Oct 2024 Fast Company Good-Paying Jobs for Workers Without College Degrees May Be on the Decline Again Re: Joseph Fuller 28 Oct 2024 Bloomberg A Midwestern Supply Firm Beats... View Details
  • 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
  • March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Gender and Free Speech at Google (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Martha J. Crawford and Sarah Mehta
In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which posited that innate biological... View Details
Keywords: Free Speech; Representation; Diversity; Gender; Race; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Labor; Employment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • November 2023
  • Case

UST's Adoption of Open Talent

By: Christopher Stanton and Kristen Senz
This case details the 2020 launch and subsequent scaling of UST’s Open Talent initiative, a program to integrate freelancers from digital platforms into its workforce. The case highlights how the shifting post-pandemic world, including layoffs, wage inflation, and... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employment; Working Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

Shareholders Good boards balance their commitments to company and shareholder needs. For instance, the board should not necessarily authorize large dividends or help promote other shareholder goals like family employment or family... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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