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Your Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
responsibilities Other members of the project team (if any) Name, title, telephone number and fax number of project supervisor Level of administrative support available Human resources contact Facility and equipment resources allocated... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
telecommuting can create the feeling of "losing touch," but when used judiciously, it can "lead to peace of mind." In addition to determining the role and timing of telecommuting, respondents provided advice for View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
dark, it's dusty, and over your head is a mile of solid rock. Oh, and you are doing heavy physical labor for 12 hours. That's being in the mines." “You had white supervisors who grew up under apartheid overseeing black mine workers.”... View Details
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Curt Willener
Fortunately, Weyerhauser had a management program eager for new talent. Within a few weeks, Curt was managing a crew of more than twenty-five people. In another couple of months, he became the only supervisor on the night shift – managing... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
everyone’s game. Christopher Stanton uses an experiment with rotating supervisors to study their influence over teams. Related Research Papers Research Paper: Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: 3M
Energy) by improving lives all over the world. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for?3M has been recruiting at HBS since 2010. We hire full-time Supervisors and Summer... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- Profile
Ricardo De Armas
my former supervisors and friends about my MBA options, they all said, 'HBS.' " "The case study is not something I ever had in college," Ricardo explains, "so at first, I was a little reticent. HBS challenges me to... View Details
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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
numerous other books and articles. He is a strategic advisor to U.S. and international corporations and a director of Parametric Technology Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and a supervisor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
supervisors engage in officially prohibited yet tolerated practices. When discovered, these transgressions may provoke disapproval or, when company materials are diverted in the process, be labeled theft. Assistant Professor Anteby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
negotiation The researchers found that one of the keys to success lay in the way the two organizations managed tensions between their commercially focused production supervisors and their socially focused job counselors. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Contacts & Resources | Information Technology
Issues Faculty, Staff, MBA, & Doctoral Students: call 617-495-6600. Executive Education Participants: call 617-495-8835. Outside of Standard Business Hours: Send details to ithelp@hbs.edu . Common Issues If you believe confidential information may be at risk. Notify... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
One-on-One Meeting The one-on-one meeting between supervisor and staff is an invaluable tool for managing, but requires much attention to detail. Julia B. Austin explains best practices for getting the most out of the 1:1. Why Brexit is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
discreet but regular ways for staff and supervisors to engage in officially forbidden yet tolerated practices at work. "Gray zones emerge when official company rules are repeatedly broken with, at minimum, a supervisor's tacit or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
costs. But that doesn't mean Southwest isn't investing in itself. The company's willingness to spend time and money on people and equipment is evident in its low rate of employee turnover; the high ratio of supervisors to front-line... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
only because he always has something important to say, but because he works so hard at it. He is still out there with his national reputation, knocking on people's doors and getting to know every county supervisor and freshman... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
companies, why do employers—or at least supervisors—apparently tolerate the practice by looking the other way? A: Managers, executives, and supervisors are mostly well aware of the practice. They often turn a blind eye toward it because... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
to better pair employees on teams to improve idea quality, according to Koning. Consider team composition. Whether or not they actually administer a personality test, supervisors generally have an idea of where team members fall on scales... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
hobby-class radio-controlled cars. Jackson went on to attend Auburn University for his undergraduate education, earning a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, Jackson worked as a jet engine engineer and then operations View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing