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- 25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have...
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- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6792.html Published: October 31, 2011 When evaluating compensation issues, economists often assume that both an employer and an employee make rational, albeit self-interested choices while working toward a goal....
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- 17 Feb 2016
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The Power of Art
The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company executives, and hundreds of View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
Executive Education and HBP also provide crucial support for strategic innovation at the School, including initiatives such as the Harvard i-lab, the multiyear U.S. Competitiveness Project, and experiments in teaching and learning such as...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100...
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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive environment was one in which View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
sustainability moving from the Compliance to the Efficiency and then to the Innovation stage. However, we also document a decentralization of decision rights from the CSO to different functions, largely View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Research Research Featured Reports The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman Healthy Outcomes: How employers' support for employees with caregiving...
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- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
required employees to uphold all regulations and “act with integrity in all that we do.” When the panel of three judges took a look at the argument, however, they threw it out of court as irrelevant. “We think the statements in Cigna’s...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2011
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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:...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
VC industry so influential? Paul Gompers: From the early 20th century to the mid- to late-20th century, most innovation happened in large firms. Then because of both managerial and organizational changes, View Details
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April White
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
I find robust evidence of a negative (positive) relation between unexplained (explained) pay disparity and future firm performance. Additional tests show that the negative relation between unexplained disparity and firm performance is View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
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Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in...
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- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
business in emerging markets based during my Tanzania consulting engagement (and broader personal experiences). It was well received by both my classmates and professors. 2. I Learned about Purpose Driven Leadership During our leadership,...
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
Harvard Business School delivered strong financial results in fiscal 2018. Revenues exceeded our forecast, driving double-digit growth in cash from operations for the fourth consecutive year. This cash flow enabled HBS to continue providing robust support for...
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- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact Re: Maria Roche 03 May 2024 BostInno 15 Startups Win $517K in 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge 30 Apr 2024 Aspen Institute Leaning into...
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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning Incorporated, Wendell Weeks...
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Susan Young