Job Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

evidence for the many benefits of remote work—wider geographical reach into different markets, more autonomy over one’s office set up, and the list goes on—studies also make very clear that remote workers’ feelings of professional isolation lead to reduced View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch

which ran April 17–20 in Burden Auditorium. Since its first production in 1974, the event has showcased the dramatic, musical, and theatrical talent of HBS students. This year's performance was no exception. Titled Infernal Rate of... View Details

Keywords: Lee-Ann Landis; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer

in Hollywood, it began to seem like a possibility that a middle-class kid from Toronto could have a career out here.” Dick performed in the Hasty Pudding theatricals as an undergraduate at Harvard and co-wrote the script for the HBS show... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2018
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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 of jobs that support families... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Mar 2012
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Under the Hood

job is too big, but no job is beneath him, either. He’ll negotiate a multimillion-dollar contract and then the next day stand in the mud at our Eldora Speedway and hang sponsor banners. He’s not afraid to... View Details

Keywords: NASCAR; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

getting the job done. Over the years he transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE (JAB) from a small, privately held German company into a successful global powerhouse. In addition to serving as chairman and CEO of JAB, Harf’s many roles... View Details

04 Feb 2020
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In Harmony

who just happened to love Gregorian chant. He even took the lead in an HBS musical. “I realized at the very top of that pyramid was the intersection of business and opera,” says Weinstein, “and if I could get a job combining those two... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000 patients in its first five years... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2009
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Health Care a Top Priority at HBS

mechanisms. Some 3,500 HBS alumni work in the sector, 600 of whom belong to the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association. Each year, about 100 MBA graduates take jobs in the sector; more than 40 students are currently enrolled in the MD/MBA... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

insights into how managers can engage frontline workers to solve problems. Reunion presentation: Designing Care, Professor Richard Bohmer Health care–related programs and courses are nothing new at HBS; in recent years, 10 percent of every graduating MBA class has... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job training for nearby... View Details

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

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold

with a $5 million loan. The plant was located in a run-down area of Bridgeport, the state’s murder capital. We’d often find bullets, needles, and used condoms in the parking lot. But my workforce was steady and very loyal because there were no other View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Aug 2016
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Leading the Way for Dallas Arts Community

When HBS Leadership Fellow Jennifer Scripps (MBA 2005) left HBS for a job as director of special projects at Lincoln Center in New York City, little did she know that her career trail would eventually point back to her hometown of Dallas,... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

assets—a model that might well hold promise for other parts of rural and postindustrial America that are struggling to reinvent themselves. “I’m here to create jobs and economic opportunity,” Marietta says. “Not just talk about it, but... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at Frito-Lay), Johnson says, “If you do... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Billion-Dollar Question

Jobs said, "Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." Fortunately, we don't need to die to enjoy some of Death's benefits. Many of us "died" when we... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

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