Human Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

needs of small businesses as they access the capital they require, the challenges traditional lending has faced in meeting these needs, and the opportunities that technology is providing for new solutions. Excerpted from Karen G. Mills,... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

focusing on trust and reputation mechanisms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51606 Harvard Business School Case 916-033 Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

different attitude from what most people had. To boost the status of entrepreneurial study, I knew I had to get someone whose credentials, integrity, human qualities, and values were unimpeachable. Howard was known as an extremely smart... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

December 2022
Supplement

Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes

Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details

Keywords: Labor Markets; Freelancers; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Employment; Digital Platforms; Global Range; Adoption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Employment Industry; Information Industry; Australia; United States; Philippines

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15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

question—it’s clear.” Simply put, inefficiencies in the development of precision medicine can best be addressed by a business-analysis approach. With the mapping of the human genome completed 15 years ago, the sci-fi concept of using a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5

groups. Moments later I saw a similar plea from a former Black co-worker on LinkedIn – asking for his manager to utter at least one word on the current events. And now there’s this letter series where Black students are yet again exhausting their emotional View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Chambers announcing further capital expenditure in China but facing growing criticism by U.S. Congress and others for Cisco's human rights record. At the same time, Cisco faced a powerful domestic competitor... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Commencement 2011 Address | About

opportunities if you don ’ t feel ready to capitalize on them? As you graduate today, I hope you feel that heady sense of possibility and the deep-rooted sense of self-confidence that you really can do what you want to do. Yet if you are... View Details

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

This case investigates both micro and macro issues around strategic human capital development. First, it explores how Egon Zehnder, a leading global search and advisory firm, assesses talent in the firms for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

since World War I opened the world to global capitalism and allowed human creativity to shine and let millions have a better life." According to some respondents, the end of the East-West geopolitical... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

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Departments | Employment

virtually; ensure the School's information assets are organized and findable by the HBS community and external audiences; archive and preserve the School's intellectual capital and history, making it available to future generations of... View Details

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

celebrities including Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Oprah Winfrey, was drawn to Bono's commitment to conscious capitalism and to the question of what made Bono, well, Bono. "It so clicked for me," she says. "I hadn't listened to U2 in 10... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being linked to growing inequities and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

explore the consequences of scientific publication-an instance of public disclosure-for a core set of activities within the firm. Specifically, we link publications to human capital management practices,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2012
News

The Accidental Innovator

goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a capital campaign that will give the academy the staying power and the ability to have a longer-term vision. One concern is finding a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

nothing going right fast enough. The company’s iconic founder and CEO, Fred Smith, had done everything he could think of to save the organization, including gambling the only capital he had left in a desperate trip to Las Vegas... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional development goals.... View Details

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01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

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