Quality Of Human Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets with nationalized banks experienced faster credit growth during a period View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

School Case 809-009 To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

people to communicate better and express their feelings. We've had the total quality movement and the move toward creating teams and the high-commitment workplace. I see what's going on today as simply a reiteration View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

October 2016
Supplement

24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details

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03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

The August 2016 cover of Consumer Reports featured a striking quote by a 32-year-old nurse with $152,000 in student loans: “I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” While obviously an extreme case, her... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

historical role of politics (and, indeed, of government) in business, economic production, distribution, and exchange. The artefacts of pre-modern and modern political economy,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. “What we are saying is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Abstract—Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

when they were days away from going broke. Rekhi bailed them out with $200,000—but he contributed more than cash. He helped them decide how to focus the company, and Exodus reached a peak market capitalization View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

saw—that's a ton of fun," he said. There was general agreement on this point, but land and buildings aren't always part of the equation when it comes to calculating the industry's appeal, added Vincent... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

happened to be less effective than the tribal tricks of the trade—tricks that the employees hid from the higher-ups, thus thwarting the goal of learning by observing. Bernstein says that there was no... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

March 2020
Case

Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

its share of the capital that American taxpayers have invested in Medicare’s infrastructure, including its buildings, equipment, and workers. "The public option would harness Medicare’s pricing... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

slower; image quality was inferior, at least initially for certain applications; and “our understanding is that it also produced unfamiliar image textures that required retraining of radiologists.” Users... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

at the top are typically not close enough to the "voice of the future" to see new opportunities, creating a bias against doing new things. In addition, this process is tied to an annual calendar; obviously, opportunities don't... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

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