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  • October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Thermax—Changing of the Guard

By: Christina R. Wing and Inakshi Sobti
Thermax is an engineering company in India that provides integrated solutions in energy, environment, and chemicals. The Aga family along with family trusts owns 62% of the company. Post a restructuring exercise in 2000, Thermax transforms itself from a small family... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Business Conglomerates; Strategy; Management Succession; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture
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  • Web

Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

Uses for Research & Teaching Research Guidelines Teaching Guidelines Research Guidelines The Creating Emerging Markets project provides a unique and freely accessible resource for scholars and researchers. In his Oral History in Latin... View Details
  • 03 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 27 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

from virtual onboarding to managing anxiety and stress. Over the next few months, I will try to tackle them one by one in this space. COVID-19 has turned many companies into federations of remote workplaces, but without much guidance on... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

For senior managers at many firms, the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic came with a huge concern: Would the loss of in-person conversations keep them from mentoring or simply establishing rapport with employees,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • October 1991 (Revised June 1992)
  • Case

Nigel Andrews and General Electric Plastics (A)

Describes some critical challenges involved in creating employee empowerment. In the context of General Electric's efforts to debureaucratise the company, employees were encouraged to become more "self-confident". This effort, called "Workout," was introduced all over... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Employees; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

By: Kristin Sippl
While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry
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  • August 2019
  • Background Note

Note on Shared Ownership

By: Ethan Bernstein and Nick Rekenthaler
While several tactics can drive company performance by instilling a sense of shared ownership among employees, perhaps the most direct is to actually share ownership with employees. Many public and private companies across industries have done just that, and studies... View Details
Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Human Resources; Employees; Human Capital; Ownership; Cooperative Ownership; Employee Ownership; Customer Ownership; Governance
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  • September 2018
  • Teaching Note

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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  • 04 Nov 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

organization to another. Several discussants maintained that portability is high for certain leadership talents. C. J. Cullinane stated, "The manager who is experienced in cost-cutting and turn-arounds can use this talent in many... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Leadership Fellows Graduating MBA students experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship The Program supports a graduating... View Details
  • May 2007
  • Article

Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups and downs are unknown. Most managers simply shrug their shoulders at this fact of work life. But does it matter, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Practice
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  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

employee choice, they must in essence volunteer. Most managers or organizations do not see their employees as part of a volunteer workforce.” The idea that engagement is a personal, one-on-one, matter came through clearly in the comments.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2023
  • Article

Conduit Incentives: Eliciting Cooperation from Workers Outside of Managers' Control

By: Susanna Gallani
Can managers use monetary incentives to elicit cooperation from workers they cannot reward for their efforts? I study “conduit incentives,” an innovative incentive design, whereby managers influence bonus-ineligible workers’ effort by offering bonus-eligible employees... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior Modification; Peer Monitoring; Persistence Of Performance Improvements; Crowding Out; Implicit Incentives; Compensation; Healthcare; Social Pressure; Image Motivation; Incentives; Motivation; Performance; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; California
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  • September 2023
  • Article

(Not) Paying for Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment

By: Summer R. Jackson
In a 20-month ethnographic study, I examine how a technology firm, ShopCo (a pseudonym), considered 13 different recruitment platforms to attract racial minority engineering candidates. I find that when choosing whether to adopt recruitment platforms focused on racial... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Recruitment; Race; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • March–April 2023
  • Article

The New-Collar Workforce

By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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  • Web

Polaroid Timeline - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

illustrates the challenges of pluralistic risk and disaster management and asks students to consider how to bring about solutions in the face of pluralistic risk issues, such as the depletion of natural View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

sense of rigor in the classroom have returned to what they were before the pandemic, adding that the School is also supporting students’ educational journeys at HBS in new ways. Kierstead discussed the naming of Rupal Gadhia (MBA 2004) as the new View Details
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

they do it.” The color of money is mostly white The total share of assets managed by minority-owned firms in 2021 was 1.4 percent, according to Lerner, while minorities that year made up over 40 percent of the population. Lerner and... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services