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01 Dec 2019
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women say they have been targeted at work, according to a 2016 report by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which also estimates that three out of four of those women will never mention that fact to a supervisor. “It’s really... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

them come to you," Deighton adds. DoubleClick's area of expertise involves its ability to package media on the Web to meet the goals of marketers and its employment of technology to facilitate using the Web as an advertising vehicle.... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

unit of analysis, there is significant evidence for cluster-driven agglomeration. Industries participating in a strong cluster register higher employment growth as well as higher growth of wages, number of establishments, and patenting.... View Details

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

application deadline, and the committee will assess a candidate's eligibility within that specific year-long period, based on the information provided within the application. Awards will be pro-rated for the length of eligible employment... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to live where they choose, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

03 May 2022
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Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

cover. The data is filterable by employer name, type of job, and job location, catching the differences between software engineers in Silicon Valley and Miami. This data comes from visa-holding employees, and not American citizens or... View Details

15 Jun 2009
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GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

While attention to business environment issues is important for all automakers, GM is more likely than most of its rivals to feel strong pressure to pursue public policy goals such as domestic employment that are not normally pursued by... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Transcontinental Railroad in the Gilded Age,” The Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003), p. 23. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918, p. 240. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details

21 Feb 2023
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What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

conversation: through employment and procurement. Let’s take employment first. Formerly incarcerated people—as returning citizens—have unique experiences they can bring to organizations. Studies also show... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

24 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

students that bridges academia, government, and industry, ultimately increasing the number of energy-related full-time and summer employment opportunities and offers. Each year, the Energy & Environment Club hosts an “EC Internship... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

04 May 2011
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Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

A number of studies have suggested that US workers waste between one and two hours a day web surfing, costing their companies billions in lost productivity. In response, some employers have banned private Internet use at the office, a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

process.” Previous studies have shown that employees are especially productive and happy when employers encourage them to use their individual signature strengths on the job, but historically those studies did not consider the employee... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

21 Jul 2022
News

A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own

becoming president of the local farmers’ market at 15. Her post-HBS career began at Berkshire Hathaway, where she was hired after sending a letter seeking employment to the firm’s legendary chief executive and chairman, Warren Buffett.... View Details

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Experience Feedback from students and employers has helped us identify some key elements for a successful experience: A high level of responsibility with significant chance to explore issues of management in social enterprise A clear... View Details

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PE/VC compensation report (Print only) Preqin private capital compensation and employment review (Print only) Financial modeling Interactive financial modeling... View Details

2013
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Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv

This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe

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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

E. Kahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), p. 175. Ibid., pp. 188–192. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

government helped subsidize U.S. Steel efforts including the development of new blast and open-hearth furnaces. U.S. Steel doubled the output of raw materials, constructed new steel plants, rehired retired workers, and reused obsolete equipment. View Details

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