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01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

coverage from Working Knowledge Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Critical Mass for some months was in the process of implementing a new program for remote work called Liquid. Nearly 10 percent of its talent now works from home. The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Edo Bedzra

A year ago, I was involved in a car accident on I-95 to New York. The car did not survive. Staring death in the face on a three-lane highway brought new perspectives to me—time is the most powerful currency life offers—and—I must apply my View Details

June 2023 (Revised July 2023)
Case

Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies

By: Joseph Pacelli, Jillian Grennan and Alexis Lefort

Fama Technologies is an online screening company that uses AI to analyze job applicants' publicly available online content for signs of risk and culture fit. The case opens with Ben Mones, founder and CEO, looking to secure funding from venture firms. He is running... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States

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01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva

“What’s different about our business model is that we’ve leveraged the global talent pool, kept our costs low, and stayed on top of new technologies that can benefit our clients.” Mahadeva enjoys being an entrepreneur and is excited about... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

acquisitions affect an estimated 5 million workers per year. While mergers typically lead to staff reductions, the new owners of an acquired company often promote talented women and people of color to oversee newly consolidated units and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

immigration is high.” You Might Also Like: How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

academic partner of the OneTen Initiative, which seeks to create 1 million living-wage jobs over 10 years for Black and underrepresented minority women and men who do not have a college education. If you believe, as I do, that talent is... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

start of an unexpected educational journey. With a background in artificial intelligence and finance, Sasago thought launching a software or fintech startup might be in his future. But shortly after arriving on campus in 2018, he discovered a View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

sometimes quite negative events, take the high road, do the right thing, and develop a reputation as a result. They almost always found that building reputation created returns, as in talented people appreciating the creation of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her working paper, "The Power... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

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On Campus Logistics - Recruiting

Hire Talent On Campus Logistics Hire Talent On Campus Logistics Here is what you need to know if you are holding an event or interview on campus. Getting to HBS Directions: View the Campus Map . Parking : We... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

outwardly the situation smells of economic anarchy. Where are the market forces, when thousands of talented programmers—and even many commercial firms—spend inordinate amounts of time writing and sharing computer source code: an activity... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

field. At WPP, in fact, Sorrell has successfully initiated a training program to recruit some of the talented young people who might be inclined to use their skills at an Internet start-up. Having followed the advertising industry for his... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

07 Jun 2021
Blog Post

The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

admission to a school like Harvard was a pursuit far above my head, something I had seen on television but not so much in my neighborhood. I have always envisioned myself as a leader in the business world, with hopes of not just leading an organization, but using my... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

complexities of the financial aid process. “There's so much talent that you can unlock when you start to believe in people. They go in all these wonderful directions, and it changes their lives. I just want to spread that around.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

appointment in both the Finance and... Boris Groysberg Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

from INGRoup in 2021. Amy C. Edmondson : Received the Talent Development Champion Award from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in 2021. Kris Johnson Ferreira : Winner of the 2021 MSOM Best... View Details

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

of the world of soccer—or, to my knowledge, in sports as a whole—who comes even close to such a lengthy tenure, let alone the number of titles and trophies he has accumulated," says Elberse, who recently authored a business case on Ferguson. “I think his willingness to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler

In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details