employee engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping employees bridge their analytical and artistic sides. Such efforts are designed to reach employees at a deeper... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

government affairs offices, that many times are engaging in public policy, writing, and advocacy that even other employees and other departments in the organization are not fully aware of. This is not asking... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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The Golden Thread

Ontario, and he would engage us in creative thinking about what we’d do, in addition to the hours we’d spend getting there in the car. We invented a lot of games to keep us occupied.” When the local Catholic newspaper ran a jingle-writing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

classroom. We've seen that LOC programs can be as intense and engaging as in-person ones. Harvard Business School wants to educate many more leaders than can come to campus. While we currently extend our reach through Harvard Business... View Details

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

brand associated with ArtLifting's message of empowerment for artists who are homeless or disabled. Customers see that. Clients see that. More importantly, employees and CEOs are reminded of it every day. And then externally, the... View Details

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter that View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

16 Jan 2020
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Hitting the High Notes

chat bots in social media, data analytics to enhance candidate experience, and rewards to employees who refer successful hires. For nearly 30 years, Sheridan has been a high-level Human Capital Management consultant and expert on the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home model. For Woolley-Wilson, keeping... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What we're doing boosts View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission

40 years, and was managing more than 3,300 employees and an annual budget of $773 million. Early training in physics launched his scientific career, but Earls credits what he learned at HBS with giving him the right stuff to soar in the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; NASA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Once they placed their order, customers had to wait ten years to receive it. Finally, Bajaj, whose grandfather had been known as the "fifth son" of Mahatma Gandhi and whose parents and grandparents had spent time in British prisons for the sake of Indian independence,... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver

caught up in the hierarchy of leadership. He engaged with you regardless of your level in the company. That really mattered at a place like Starbucks." Lopez sees a direct connection between his focus at Starbucks and his work at AMC.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees cash... View Details

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

20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

business world and academia had a distinct advantage. He went back to the Pentagon to try to change the way the military engaged with civilians, then to serve at the White House. In 2007, he retired as an Air Force Deputy Assistant... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care

insurance when they think they will need it. Should people who make bad personal health choices pay more for their health insurance? We are moving to a system where individuals will have to be engaged in their own health, or face the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

20 Dec 2024
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Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

week.“This has been a milestone in my professional development,” says Aden. “My organization was one of the smaller organizations represented in the course, but I felt on equal ground with other participants with 400 employees and... View Details