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  • March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Matching Markets for Googlers

By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
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How to Apply | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Applications are reviewed by the Selection Committee on an annual basis. The next application deadline is October 1, 2024, at 9:00 am EST for the 2025 award. The only application deadline is October 1, at 9:00 am EST. Applicants who have... View Details
  • Web

Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

student) for the partner organization under the mentorship of the organization’s executive staff or Board members. Students selected by CFI will work with your organization to refine and develop the project scope, develop key... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Eva Ascarza
Professor Ascarza’s research primarily focuses on providing researchers and marketers a better understanding of how to manage customer retention so as to reduce churn and increase firm’s profitability. She addresses these issues by building empirical models of customer... View Details
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations
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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

HBSGrid. The easiest is using wrapper (default submission) scripts via NoMachine and pre-defined commands. The other method is custom submission scripts , which offers maximum flexibility but involves writing one-line unix commands or simple, text-based submission... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

gained higher levels of education and workforce integration, leading analysts to blame ingrained bias and “occupational sorting” for the difference. Occupational sorting occurs when people select jobs based on their demographics. For... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

concept, there are many challenges and risks in execution for the service organization, government and investors. The VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds (819021) by Vikram Gandhi , Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel... View Details
  • May–June 2024
  • Article

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career
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  • 21 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

to fail at giving speeches. During one of our final meals, HBS professor Anita Elberse announced that a student from each section would be selected to speak to the overall class (over 180+ people) at the closing ceremony as a way to... View Details
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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

your information with the Selection Committee. This step is not required for subsequent applications. Eligible Loans The Program is designed to support graduates who were determined by the Financial Aid office to have demonstrated need... View Details
  • September 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Recruitment of a Star

By: Boris Groysberg, Stephen Balog and Jennifer Haimson
Details power dynamics that unfold in the firm when one of its best and brightest threatens to leave. It focuses on the dynamics of attracting, hiring, compensating, negotiating, and leveraging a star performer in a professional service firm. In particular, traces the... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Job Interviews
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

International Businesses Historical Maps Managing Distance Telegraphic Communication Trends Over Time Managing Distance Telephone Rates between NYC and Select Cities Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Ten Largest Cities Over Time... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts

Keywords: by Ethan R. Mollick & Ramana Nanda
  • Article

The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
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  • July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

United Rentals (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details
Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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  • 04 Oct 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

leaders, and cooperation between the police and neighborhoods in the control of crime. Still, he found himself facing questions from the public about the improper behavior of members of the force. He concluded that one reason was that too many of the wrong recruits had... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Bloomberg: mutual funds

assets, age, return, or objectives. Example Screens for widely-used criteria are also available. Click on Results (bottom right of screen) to run your search. A list of matching funds will appear. If using Bloomberg Professional, to download this list to Excel click on... View Details
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Executive compensation

Database- Executive Biographies or U.S. Executive Compensation Database- Boards & Committees. Enter the name of a company or executive in the search box. Select the entry for company or executive profile. In Capital IQ... View Details