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  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, examines an alternative route for American teenagers and companies alike: The apprenticeships popular in many European countries. Looking closely at a successful US apprentice program in which high school... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Article

Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood

By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
Social movements have the potential to effect change in firm decision-making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, led to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood producers working with female writers on new... View Details
Keywords: Gender Inequality; Social Movement; Scandal; Creative Industries; Project Selection; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Film Entertainment; Projects; Change
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  • Web

Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

preference files, work that is considered 'in development'. Project folders are shared locations, and ideally used for collaborative project spaces. Please see our... View Details
  • 2021
  • White Paper

Working to Learn: Despite a Growing Set of Innovators, America Struggles to Connect Education and Career

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Jorge Encinas, Tessa Forshaw, Alexis Gable and J.B. Schramm
In the wake of COVID-19 and growing inequality, America needs more pathways that bridge education and career. New research from the Project on Workforce at Harvard draws on data from New Profit's Postsecondary Initiative for Equity to identify opportunities for the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Training; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Health Pandemics
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  • 2013
  • Case

Career Pathways, Performance Pay, and Peer-review Promotion in Baltimore City Public Schools

By: Susan Moore Johnson, John J-H Kim, Geoff Marietta, S. Elisabeth Faller and James Noonan
In the fall of 2012, Dr. Andres Alonso had much to celebrate about in his five-year tenure as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, including the approval and implementation of an innovative teachers' contract with a jointly-governed four-tier career pathway that tied... View Details
Keywords: Labor Management; Public Education; PELP; Union; Compensation; Collaboration; Public Education Leadership Project; Education; Labor; Compensation and Benefits; Education Industry; United States
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  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology

work directly with the senior leadership of the city.” In addition to the projects above, Henry worked on a Housing Rent Registry project with... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology

Henry’s 2017 Fellowship year drew him into “ambitious tech projects solving big challenges in the city. This is not tech for tech’s sake, but to address issues like housing, transportation, and access to city hall.” Among Henry’s first... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

long-work-hours culture was detrimental to both women and men, but women paid a higher price,” says the article, Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • September–October 2015
  • Article

Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World

By: Debora L. Spar
In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Learning; Situation or Environment
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  • 27 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

students is Project SEED. Rather than pushing the green transition from top down, SEED has made decarbonization the focus of every employee at every department. Individuals were incentivized to voice ideas to reduce CO2 emissions and... View Details
  • May, 2019
  • Article

Who Would You Like to Work With?: Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems

By: Diego Gomez-Zara, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch and Noshir Contractor
People and organizations are increasingly using online platforms to assemble teams. In response, HCI researchers have theorized frameworks and created systems to support team assembly. However, little is known about how users search for and choose teammates on these... View Details
Keywords: Team Formation; Groups and Teams; Recruitment; Networks; Diversity
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

studied confidential daily diaries of knowledge workers in three industries. Data showed that making progress on projects and other matters at work drives employee engagement, creativity, and productivity.... View Details
  • Web

How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge

adults in 2023 was 7 percent, more than twice as high as the rate of people without disabilities. Businesses, particularly those with high turnover, are missing out by failing to tap this segment of the workforce, says Ruback, who worked... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

team members in jobs and on projects that enable them to excel and to showcase their talents. If people have the expectation that they can monetize the value of their improved performance, they will be more willing to accept a lower... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • Web

A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Inside the Revolution

“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • April 1996 (Revised November 1996)
  • Case

BAE Automated Systems (A): Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Carin-Isabel Knoop and H. James Nelson
Describes the events surrounding the construction of the BAE baggage-handling system at the Denver International Airport. It looks specifically at project management, including decisions regarding budget, scheduling, and the overall management structure. Also examines... View Details
Keywords: Management; Decisions; Contracts; Time Management; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Budgets and Budgeting; Construction Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Colorado
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  • November 2002 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

Martha McCaskey

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Bart J. van Dissel
Martha McCaskey, a project leader at a consulting firm, is asked to complete a project at a crucial point in her career. Successful completion of the project would gain McCaskey a promotion and a significant raise. McCaskey, however, cannot see a way to complete the... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry
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    Raffaella Sadun

    Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Sadun received her PhD in Economics... View Details

    • 13 May 2013
    • Blog Post

    Final presentations and final farewells

    I’ve now mentioned on several occasions this A/B testing project that I have been working on. What I haven’t given much air time to is the MBA group project that we were also... View Details