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- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
strikes dampened hiring, employers still created fewer jobs than economists expected, according to reports. Losing one's job can be a shock, raising questions like: “Should I start my own business?” and “What about my benefits?” For managers and View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
protect against a company’s having extensive control over its workforce without paying for employee benefits and social security taxes. Until recently, Work 2.0 worked. Now the Work 3.0 era has dawned,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
authors Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer discuss how even seemingly humdrum events can make huge differences in employees' emotional and intellectual well-being. "There's no reason, no matter how resource-constrained an organization is, why managers can't... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
former boss at Citicorp, her social worker mother, her physician grandfather, her husband -- she is also justifiably proud of her own accomplishments. After nine years in consumer banking at Citicorp, in 1985 Marshall was hired as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
long used corporate social responsibility initiatives and philanthropy to improve their standing with consumers. Now there is a new crop of companies that are making health and wellness a business imperative, not just because it is “the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
Anik and Dan Ariely of Duke University, social norms were used to incentivize employees to give money to charity. Results were published in the paper Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations. In the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national... View Details
- January 1986 (Revised July 1990)
- Supplement
Kristen's Cookie Co. (A2)
Intended for distribution during class, this case contains one set of answers to the (A1) case. It introduces the concept of a Gantt chart and discusses issues raised by the case such as the value of labor flexibility. The open-ended questions in the (A1) case are only... View Details
Bohn, Roger E. "Kristen's Cookie Co. (A2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 686-094, January 1986. (Revised July 1990.)
- January 20, 2022
- Article
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Many workers feel battered and distrustful after almost two years of COVID-19 instability. But it's not too late for managers—even those who made damaging missteps—to repair these relationships, say Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta. "3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 20, 2022).
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
What managers must take away from this book is that the jobs in their organization will only be fulfilling to their employees if they provide opportunities to reasonably satisfy all four drives. Jobs must be designed so that people can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
Asia," held at the Asia Business Conference on February 14 at Harvard Business School. Ever since the public outcry in the 1990s over the wages paid by Nike to its Asian factory workers, the issue of multinational corporate social... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
performance on business-relevant ESG issues based on a firm’s industry membership has a positive association with future financial performance. A company’s efforts to improve its social impact could result in cost savings, increased brand... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
millions of extra pounds in tax revenue collected. "I’ve seen behavioral economics come into play in a variety of contexts, ranging from employee compensation and investment decisions to corporate strategy." The letter is an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
by the two organizations discovering, incrementally, opportunities for mutually beneficial value creation. The closer collaboration is fostered by a perception of shared objectives and values and a growing level of trust. Making it all happen comes from the energy and... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
research, please visit www.hbs.edu/healthcare/. We’ve seen real disparity in patient outcomes with this disease. How is the hospital responding to this, and what can we learn from it? PS: This pandemic has really underscored the importance of the View Details