Employee Socialization - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

teams applied to the New Ventures Competition (NVC), competing in one of three tracks—Alumni, Social Enterprise, and Student Business. While student teams prepared on campus, alumni teams battled it out in 11 regional competitions around... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Bring your authentic self to work: Advice from HBS alumni

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Dec 2021
News

Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

renew the organization and its products. This new individualized corporation, they observe, requires a fundamentally different management approach that rejects the traditional "organization man" model in which employees are considered... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

jobs, globalization all but assures that the auto industry in the United States will never again offer its employees the standard of living it once did. It's a portent for all of American industry and its workers. "The View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Oct 2022
News

On Balance

care, social assistance, and education versus mining, construction, and manufacturing.) “It’s a generational project to shift mindsets about traditional roles and traditional industries to drive gender equality,” she says. “It has to be... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

companies that rely on employees from around the world to help the firms capitalize on the promise of their global reach and resources. Global teams, however, face significant challenges; physical separation and demographic differences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2017 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Sales Razor Technologies

By: Paul Gompers and Noam Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry

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21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

startup funds—and what allowed them to take the risk of launching a company." Curiosity eventually led to his doctoral dissertation: a series of studies showing a definitive link between the social safety net and entrepreneurship. In... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

June 1991 (Revised April 1993)
Case

Acer, Inc.

By: Robert H. Hayes

Acer is undergoing two major transitions at the time of this case: from a small, entrepreneurially-run company to a large professionally-run one; and from a largely domestic company to a multinational one. After a decade of phenomenal growth, it is now facing a major... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Motivation and Incentives; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Diversity; Computer Industry; Taiwan

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24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. That’s roughly 2.5 times larger than it was a decade ago. About 75 percent of refugees come from Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine, and Sudan. Agency employees face the staggering challenge of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Address the Refugee Crisis A paper written by Swedish student Lovisa “Lisa” Tengberg (MBA 2020) for the spring 2020 elective Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change was selected for development as a case study. “Just Arrived:... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Books

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives:... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

they know well; but I am not certain that they’ve really considered the alternatives and what workplace would fit into their broader strategy. And then you have other companies and executives that went remote during the pandemic and are still scared to ask their View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded. Pure profit-based competition... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

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