Job Design and Levels - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

highest levels of their industry and ask them to learn the basics of another language that you want to make the basis of communication in your company? Aren't they going to feel like a student in high... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

age. Beyond that, to keep the US economy strong, if you want to improve employment levels in this country, you have to consider removing barriers to hiring such as overly liberal interpretations of workers' compensation rules View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

19 May 2016
Blog Post

Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting

balance. While it's critical to love and enjoy the work, you also have to consider your level of skill and the prospects for continuous improvement, how the work is valued by... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

higher income, where there might be more of an incentive due to higher returns. Only about half of those censured for abuses, however, were fired. And half of those found a job at another firm within the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and gathering staff for virtual happy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

organizations is also driving the trend, generating “digital trace data”—records of employee behavior captured on devices central to performing jobs everywhere, from the office to the factory floor to the View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

04 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events

Associates said that if we could make our presentations more interactive, ours would be more interesting,” says Joseph. Evercore formed a committee and reviewed the possibilities for gamifying recruiting programs, View Details

26 Mar 2019
Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE

day. I didn’t know what exact job it was, but I wanted to do it. I was raised to believe that with an education that taught me how to learn and adapt, I could literally become anything I imagine, View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

certain fairness constraints can be as high as 30%) and also pursue the design of policies targeted specifically at remedying criticisms leveled at the recent point system... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

such as product development, advertising, and pricing. His presentation of his observations to his American counterparts was met with only a modest level of interest. Fast forward fifteen years. Tens of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Career Coach

Ryan Kennedy

20-people, and 200-people levels and can help you think about opportunities at similar organizations. Ryan is currently bootstrapping his own fintech startup. Prior to his... View Details

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

for relevant customization and adaptation to specific client needs. This is a significant aspect of maintaining ongoing client relationships. I observed that teams under heightened pressure tend to shut out dissenting points of view View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

Career Coach

Wendi Zhang

designing the evolution of their career and life. Wendi works full-time in Silicon Valley at Egon Zehnder, which she joined in January 2024. Immediately before her current role, she served as the VP of... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Angel Investing; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Social Enterprise; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

strategy (and some consultants who advise on strategy) is that they assume that once you design strategy it gets executed. They don't look inside the process and realize that it's much more complicated.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2014
Blog Post

Leveraging Big Data to Improve Recruiting

to understand the recruiting landscape at HBS and the types of opportunities that are of interest to our students. Organizations often look to our data to improve their recruiting strategy and View Details

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

one on one meetings between managers and direct reports are the norm and the career development conversation is ongoing. “I tend to think about things in 90-day terms, so managers View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development