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Negotiating - Alumni

offer is made Know your bottom line in terms of salary, benefits, etc... Negotiate base pay first, then other points the employer would likely agree to Save other issues of conflict for last Seek to understand ("Is there any flexibility... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

$15,000 (four installments of $3,750) + applicable international taxes Application deadline March 12th View weekly calendar Apply Now Four installments of $3,750 and employer reimbursement available Free application, complete in 20-30... View Details

05 Aug 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

Harvard Business School; Ellie Shuo Jin and Leslie K. Rice, doctoral students at The University of Texas at Austin; and Robert A. Josephs, professor and head of the Clinical Neuroendocrinology Laboratory at UT Austin. Employers may be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

Bruce Davies, Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854–1920 (New York: Arno Press, 1976). Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital... View Details

11 Jul 2019
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Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

growing pains in 2007, founder Howard Schultz realized its unique customer experience was broken. The State of Customer Service LeadershipThe economic future of the country is largely in the hands of those who lead our service organizations, which create more View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

24 Feb 2021
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

viewed HBS as an investment and I preferred to take the loans and pay them off over time. My employer had been sponsoring select MBA students via partial salary and full scholarships as part of a leadership development program but halted... View Details

19 Oct 2016
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Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

12 Nov 2012
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Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

employers committed to diversity and inclusion assess their progress to date. What does the staff compositional data look like when broken out by race, ethnicity, gender, and other personal and cultural identifiers? “Think about the... View Details

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Key Stakeholders We advocate that the goal of any health care system should be to increase the value it delivers to patients. This is the underlying thesis of Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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

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

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

whether they would admit that they used drugs on a job application; a different set of participants acting as prospective employers were asked whom they'd rather hire, someone who admitted using drugs, or someone who chose not to answer.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial Publicity Challenge of Color Breaking Down Barriers Dream Realities Route of the Exhibition Research Links Credits Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard... View Details

March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
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Culture at Google

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Amy Klopfenstein and Sarah Mehta

Beginning in 2017, technology (tech) company Google faced a series of employee-relations issues that threatened its unique culture of innovation and open communication. Issues included protests surrounding Google’s contracts with the U.S. government, restrictions of... View Details

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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

right to determine if and when to have children. No matter what one’s personal or religious views are, the impact will be felt by all - health systems and payors bearing costs from pregnancies now forced to continue, employers with more... View Details

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

and from its employment of nationals at senior levels. The upshot, seen in the case of the EU, was that Unilever had a "voice" in issues that concerned it, even if it was exercised discreetly through industry and other... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

24 May 2018
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Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

wireless—varies dramatically by location, especially when comparing urban and low-density locations, but even when comparing one city to another. On a different dimension, the types of employment affiliated with implementing frontier... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School