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  • 21 Nov 2017
  • News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • October 2023
  • Case

Making Progress at Progress Software (A)

By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Development and Career; Human Capital; Employee Relationship Management; Technology Industry; Bulgaria
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  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

prepared for it.” Click Here Cote also emphasized to students that, as important as it was to avoid the disruption of layoffs and to preserve the company’s workforce, Honeywell also continued its process of... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

Work degree and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She oversees the various programs and functions of the Support... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

The Softer Side of Business at HBS

dig into a school’s curriculum and programs and make sure it offers all you’re looking for. Reach out to alumni, current students, and professors – having all been in the classrooms and gone through the experience, they’ll be your best... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The latter will incorporate updates on School initiatives and provide hands-on training and resources for HBS volunteers. We are grateful to all volunteers- class correspondents, fund agents, club officers, reunion committee members, and... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

actually politically and administratively palatable and therefore implementable? How do you ensure that the benefits of high growth rates (like those we are currently seeing in the East African region) truly... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia

By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Effective in eight jurisdictions and banned in four, Fair Workweek Laws (FWL) aim to increase the predictability and stability of work schedules. Among other requirements, these laws penalize employers for unilaterally adjusting work schedules without providing some... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Employees; Outcome or Result; Los Angeles; Chicago; Philadelphia
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Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski
The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing Porter's outcome taxonomy (Porter 2010), we illustrate how to use process... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
  • Case

French Pension System, The: On the Verge of Retirement?

By: David A. Moss, Anne Dias and Bertrand O. Stephann
Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; Capital Markets; Economic Growth; Labor; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Welfare; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; France
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  • March 2017
  • Case

Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal
This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details
Keywords: Education; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Executive Education; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Learning; History; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizations; Practice; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Research; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Status and Position; Trust; Society; Social Issues; Theory; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Illinois
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  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has had a busy year, meeting both on campus and in informal settings around the world. In January, we returned to HBS for our Winter Meeting. The sessions included important reports from the... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
  • Web

Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About

committee has painstakingly and methodically researched a painful truth: “During the 17th and 18th centuries, the sale and trafficking of human beings—in slavery—and the industries rooted in the labor View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 19 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower

Linder explained. “Our CEO and the head of Human Resources said that we need to think about talent in a different way to infuse bright capable people who can come in, roll up... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

presentations will continue in other locations starting in the fall. I hope you will take the opportunity to participate when the program comes to a city near you. During the year, the Alumni Board met on campus in October, January, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Luick Good; HBS Alumni Association; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    George C. Lodge

    Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

    • 31 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

    Lanka, where he is presently the Chief of Party for USAID’s Sri Lanka Energy Program. Rick has 40 years of experience in formulating and implementing international infrastructure development View Details

      Teresa M. Amabile

      Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details