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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
or fear that they or their loved ones will, yet 38 percent felt it is never acceptable to speak about their experiences of bias at their companies. All that hushing of the topic can make African American workers feel as if companies are not willing to address their... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
and from its employment of nationals at senior levels. The upshot, seen in the case of the EU, was that Unilever had a "voice" in issues that concerned it, even if it was exercised discreetly through industry and other... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Too Big?
concerned about feeling like a number rather than a student in the classroom. Once I got to HBS I realized that it feels big in all the right ways and small in allthe right ways. What I mean is that there are inherent benefits to being a... View Details
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
management addressed it. That need not alter the nature of the case discussion, unless one assumes that we always predict the future accurately and respond in the right manner. It helps explain why some of the most fruitful case discussions View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)
of my responsibilities. I have a support system and know that if things don’t go as expected, it’s still going to be ok. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by concerns about loans or... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
struggle to make a career transition I came to HBS to explore new industries and I was concerned my experience put me in a “business analysis” box. However, HBS has a strong brand, vast alumni network, and a... View Details
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Faculty - Private Capital Project
graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
time they tried a big change (in their case, the "customer centric" initiative), they were unsuccessful, and some of the consequences (impossible workloads for a while, a few good people's careers derailed) were very unpleasant.... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
about the difference between a girl being a tomboy and a boy being a sissy—the former moniker is considered a compliment, the latter an insult. Thus, the concern about women contaminating the things of men is much bigger than that of men... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
financially. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by concerns about loans or debt repayment? I asked myself, “What does success look like the day after graduation?” Inspired by my... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
solely defined by the transactional rhythms and white-hot speed of the marketplace. (My graduating MBA students talk of this concern frequently as they discuss job choices and sketch out their own career... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
reconceptualizing career development post-pandemic and the implications for us and our organizations. CASE STUDY Behavioral Economics and Choice Architecture: Helping Customers and Employees Make Better Decisions Associate Professor John... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
experience? If they are skills, should the curriculum be designed to foster them, perhaps through greater emphasis on courses in negotiating skills and increased field experience, among others, on the assumption that street smarts can be taught? The second question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and—here's the catch—retain them? And do so in the face of ever-increasing global challenges?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... July 2024 Management Science Whether to Apply By: Katherine B. Coffman , Manuela Collis and Leena Kulkarni... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
confer. At the bottom of the value stick, employee WTS is the lowest compensation a person is willing to accept for performing a particular type of work. Pay an employee less than his WTS, and he will walk away from the job. As with WTP, many View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
colleague Benjamin Edelman, Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts? The paper addresses an issue near and dear to academics worldwide: the relative popularity of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
performance and career outcomes,” the paper says. Will companies embrace remote work long term? Despite the seismic shift many companies made to remote work during the pandemic, some business leaders remain View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details