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- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
Assistant Professor Zoë Cullen. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create challenges for companies attempting to fill job openings as record numbers of people quit their jobs in search of new opportunities in a hot labor... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service Level on Retailer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
across countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52239 2018 The Nature of Human Creativity Creativity and the Labor of Love By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—This book provides an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with regard to core standards in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Satisfaction (23) Customer Value and Value Chain (12) Customers (104) Customization and Personalization (3) Debt Securities (1) Decision Choices and Conditions (43) Decision Making (240) Decisions (10) Demand and Consumers (223)... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work in the Post-Covid World Professor Joe Fuller (MBA 1981) + More Info – Less Info What is going on in labor market? How will generative AI and other technologies affect the future of work? How... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
knowledge spillovers and capital market externalities exert a stronger impact on multinational firms while labor market pooling has a weaker effect. These findings remain robust when we examine entry decisions and explore the process of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
International Management Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization By: Jones, Geoffrey, and Christos Pitelis Abstract—This article explores the role of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
period. “The demand for social skills is increasing in every category of the economy,” says Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS. “[But] it’s not about schmoozing.” Instead,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- December 2022
- Article
Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Hannah Weisman
There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have different understandings of passion that potentially conflict. More specifically, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Capital; Performance Effectiveness; Management Style
Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Hannah Weisman. "Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research." Research in Organizational Behavior 42 (December 2022).
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
Chief Sustainability Officer and Walmart Foundation President Kathleen McLaughlin. “ we’re now a tech company as much as a retail company,” Mc Laughlin said. “This digital transformation creates new jobs, but, more important, it changes the nature of jobs, even... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
slavery. Rather, innovation was, in a sense, a byproduct of bondage. The immense control of planters over their slaves enabled the development of management "controls." Slaves became the subjects of management experiments, their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Gable, and J.B. Schramm. Building The On Demand Workforce , Report, Harvard Business School and BCG, November 2020. With Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière, and Sibley... View Details
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
There are other cost savings, too, including no need for front-of-house staff such as servers, cashiers, hosts, and bartenders. Restaurant operators simply provide their own culinary staff while the cloud kitchen provider typically offers shared View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
advice to restaurant owners, staff, investors, and patrons that we offer below. How did it deteriorate so quickly? Restaurants are universally labor intensive—by any productivity metric they rank among the least productive industries.... View Details
- June 2016
- Article
Managing the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors
By: Erin M. Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan
People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their jobs and always on call. But after interviewing hundreds of professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Working Conditions; Work-Life Balance; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture
Reid, Erin M., and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Managing the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 6 (June 2016): 85–90.
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
make jobs more appealing. “The question is, are all these demands that employees are making transitional?” asks Bell. “Are labor shortages going to be with us in the longer term? Maybe this is just a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds