Administration of Human Resource Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

interconnected global community. So disease threats such as COVID-19 need to be recognized as part of the current work-scape and systematically addressed,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Fast Answer

Global Climate Change

padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; border-top:none; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:none">The Global Carbon Project (GCP) integrates knowledge of greenhouse gases... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

topic and, in 1994, to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a nonprofit organization that aims to catalyze innercity business development across the United States. In frequent talks around the country, Porter emphasizes that while View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of View Details

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Professor at the University of Ottawa and a visionary founder of The Prosperity Project; Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008), founding partner of Springbank Collective; and Michelle Banik,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

courses were general and descriptive ("Economic Resources of the United States," "Railroad Organization and Finance") and taught primarily through lectures from the economist's point... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

200,000 qualified plug-ins domestically—a number that Tesla and GM could hit within the next year. Sales of all-electrics would undoubtedly slump were the Trump administration to end the federal tax credit... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

Career Coach

Carole Carlson

consulting skills and social entrepreneurship in their MBA program, and she also moderates online executive education programs for HBS Publishing.Carole is a 1998 graduate of Harvard Business School, where... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

Instead, leaders should see employees as resources to cultivate through a clearly defined program of support for professional growth, for example, helping to improve their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

India. “Hence ‘Alumni in Action’.... powerful stories of resilience, purpose and giving back. Stories that restore one's faith in Humanity and inspire us to dream of a better... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

and a set of human values that everyone could connect with. People around the world value trust, want meaning out of work, and want to do good and well. In the example View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

patent protection. Improvement in the enforcement of patent rights. Improvement in the administration of the patent system. On paper, fifteen of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

between communities, and voting and civic engagement. AUGUST 28 After participating in and leading numerous conversations about race, social justice, and racism, CEO and Chief Rioter of Rioting.co Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) was eager to... View Details

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career,... View Details

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in... View Details

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