Administration of Human Resource Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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

29 Apr 2025
News

Challenge Accepted

of self-confidence and self-awareness in all people of the company, from people who were doing very mundane things in administration and accounting to people in super important... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

poverty? A: Yes, there are many. Here are two: DaimlerChrysler some years ago, under pressure from the Green Party in Germany, decided it had to increase the amount of renewable resources it used in the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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 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

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

for parents of 15 to 25 year-olds. They’ve compiled all that they’ve learned into this must-have guide. Grown & Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers through high school and into those first... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

around the vision, and mobilizes human and other resources in the execution of that vision. Equally important, a leader is responsible for establishing the tone, values, and... 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

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

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

because of this seemingly senseless tragedy.” —Todd Berkley (MBA '93) Still unable to fly home, Dean Clark, who had been in close contact with the School's administration throughout the week, sent a message... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

decades, we have seen a distinct transformation of the C-suite—a term denoting the most important senior executives in an organization—characterized by the proliferation of new Chief X Officer (CXO) roles,... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

improvement programs kept failing. Meliones created a leadership team with representatives from each of the three employee groups to redefine the mission and to develop a Balanced Scorecard that incorporated... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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