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    Sustainability in the Boardroom

    More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success—and yet the matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions... View Details

      Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

      Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

      In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details

        How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

        High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
        • 14 Feb 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

        executive we interviewed said: "Leaders must go from trying to have all the answers to being comfortable with being uncomfortable." 5. Be present The leaders we talked to acknowledged just how complex and demanding work has become for... View Details
        Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
        • 03 Oct 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

        Taking time for reflection might help. In an interview last year, Neumann, the co-founder of WeWork, said of his experience: “I have had a lot of time to think, and there have been multiple lessons and multiple regrets.” Some risks are... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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        The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email:... View Details
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        All Industries

        the future of tech in Silicon Valley 04 Mar 2025 Michelle Cao 11 Dec 2023 Becca Carnahan Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: View Details
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        Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

        organization to utilize a Fellow's leadership and management skills. Fellows are chosen by the hiring organizations through a standard interview process. Organizations pay Fellows a $65,000 salary and HBS awards Fellows a one-year grant... View Details
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        Standards of Conduct - Recruiting

        Thursday, October 2, 2025: Direct outreach and event advertising may begin. Monday, October 6, 2025: Recruiting events may begin. Monday, January 5, 2026: Organizations may begin interviewing students. View Details
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        Africa - Global

        insights are helping shape the future of business in Africa. Three of the interviews were conducted in person by HBS Professors Archie Jones , Martin Sinozich , and Hakeem Belo-Osagie , while the fourth - led by Professor Ramon... View Details
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        Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        Test Room, February 20, 1928, Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Studies Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview... View Details
        • 2019
        • Working Paper

        The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work

        By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle
        Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as... View Details
        Keywords: Open Source; Future Of Work; Software Development; Knowledge Work; Online Community; Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity
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        Are You Suited for a Start-up?

        By: Jeffrey Bussgang
        Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit for you? The author advises that you first assess... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Personal Characteristics; Job Search
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        • January–February 2014
        • Article

        Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy

        By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Robert J. Thomas
        When most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently... View Details
        Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Success; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry
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        Reinventing Yourself: Identity and Transformation in Professional Careers

        Professor Herminia Ibarra is working on a book about people who change careers. The book explains why, when, and how people find themselves at a crossroads in their career and how they develp the skills they need to make their way successfully to a new professional... View Details
        • March–April 2023
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        The New-Collar Workforce

        By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
        Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
        Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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        • May–June 2020
        • Article

        The New-Market Conundrum

        By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
        Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it’s unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details
        Keywords: New Markets; Markets; Business Model; Strategy; Framework; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation
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        • 2015
        • Working Paper

        The Challenges and Enhancing Opportunities of Global Project Management: Evidence from Chinese and Dutch Cross-Cultural Project Management

        By: Ying Zhang, Christopher Marquis, Sergey Filippov, Henk-Jan Haasnoot and Martijn van der Steen
        This study investigates the role of national and organisational culture in day-to-day activities of multinational project teams, specifically focusing on differences between Chinese and Dutch project managers. We rely on fieldwork observation and interviews with... View Details
        Keywords: Management; Organizational Culture; Projects; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; China; Netherlands
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          Unanticipated Gains

          Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? 

          Unanticipated Gains argues... View Details

            When the Thought Doesn’t Count: The Dynamics of Unhelpful Help in Creative Organizations

            We’ve all been there. You ask a colleague for help with something, maybe a tricky research design or a difficult student. They agree to help, but their assistance misses its mark. You wonder what happened and, if you turn to existing research and theory, you... View Details