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Placement - Doctoral

race employee resource groups in tech Advisors: Robin J. Ely (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan , and Michele Lamont 2020 Yanhua Bird Organizational Behavior, 2020 Placement: Boston University, Questrom School of View Details
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

time in the workplace and can be addressed wisely—or poorly—says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Christina Wing, whose forthcoming book Unspeakable offers advice for managing weighty interactions. She has also created a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

anyway? Bringing rituals into the workplace may feel awkward, Norton says—especially when employees balk at the “trust falls” and other “teambuilding exercises” that managers impose upon them. But the truth is, research shows that such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

coffee drink sold from a vending machine. Where do we compete? "What should a company's global footprint look like? How should it allocate resources across countries?" Collis asks. In the eternal battle... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 05 Feb 2024
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire for Attitude?

spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent managing their recruiting mistakes.” Our research confirms that these are companies that hire for skills and try to do the nearly impossible: train for attitude. The question I’m... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Program

Transforming Customer Experiences

inside sales teams, or other functions central to service delivery Executives in marketing, data analysis, or operations management Human resources executives concerned with... View Details
  • November 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Richmond Events

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Kristin Lieb
The managers of British business forum planner, Richmond Events, are struggling to expand their conference offerings into new territories. At the same time, they are trying to decide how product managers, who are critical to event success, should be hired, trained,... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Innovation and Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Conflict Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Service Industry; United Kingdom; Asia
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  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

improvement in hospitals, allocating resources to search for and select high benefit/cost problems appears to be of limited benefit versus allocating resources to take action on known problems. This approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Eileen Stephan

of career, family life and a family sporting goods business.Work Experience: Citigroup, Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management (covering Investment Banking, Private Banking, Sales &... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management
  • Web

Hiring Organizations

- Art Resource Collaborative for Kids Aristotle Capital Management Arkifi Arlington Capital Partners Articul8 AI Artisan Aryn Assembly Ventures Athletes First Atlantico Atlas Air Atlas Venture Auctane Audax... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Common identity often provides a foundation for workplace rapport. Though gender is perhaps the most frequently studied dimension of identity among workers, little is known about how gender match between managers and their workers might affect team performance. Using... View Details
Keywords: Management; Relationships; Gender; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Colombia
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  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken, and what transfers made in order to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

of brilliance, raining down like manna from some deity of inspiration. Teaching people how to be creative, on the other hand, is like teaching them how to be tall—that is, impossible. These days, as global competition intensifies, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

effect dissipated. Finally, we show that labor increases valuation for both "do-it-yourselfers" and novices. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20mochon%20ariely.pdf A Global Leader's Guide to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

of gifts over time. So many in the nonprofit and philanthropy world wondered how Scott’s nonconforming principles would be expressed in her actual giving. Scott, whose net worth has been estimated to top $40 billion, established the organization Yield Giving in 2022 to... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • August 1994
  • Case

Higashimaru Shoyu Company, Ltd. (B): Revitalizing the Organization

Documents how Higashimaru's plant manager converted a reluctant workforce into one that was open to change. Illustrates "human reengineering" and shows how the plant manager prepared workers for a factory modernization program. View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Employees
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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

  • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
  • Case

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg
By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Workforce; Skills; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Competency and Skills; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to work... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz