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- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
on college credentials rather than on actual job skills, according to the technical note, “Widening the Talent Pipeline: Skills-First Hiring.” This entrenched hiring system has penalized workers of color...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
scrap rates.Kerr: Yeah. If in this vicious cycle, if the employee will leave relatively soon anyway, that can reduce my near-term incentives to be making those 45-minute feedback sessions.Fuller: Exactly. I think one View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
So when you made that pivot to a club model, you’re moving out of the tech company’s direct purview. How did you make the economic model?Saujani: We’re still there.Fuller: You’re doing tech companies still providing the guidance and the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
inventions, the execution, implementation of those—not just domestically, but even on a global scale. And that requires not just really strong hiring practices, but really strong development practices,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
War II business in the United States has largely withdrawn from the activity of developing talent and really investing in building talent, and it shifted to sort of this just-in-time View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
different options and find one that’s a good fit? The flip side of that, of course, is how do employers find employees who are a good fit for them? And part View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when most of the region’s office...
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- 04 Mar 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do People Want to Work Anymore?
around fewer, carefully selected, better-paid people performing complex jobs requiring extensive training, with resulting higher employee retention and lower costs of selection, hiring, and training for new...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Prof. Publishes Book on Start-Ups
- November 1995
- Case
Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (D)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone
Because of conflicts between the vapor coat and pack coat cells over the decision to purchase new grit blast equipment, Business Unit Manager Tom Hutton has decided to form a second capital purchase team that will represent the pack coat cell. Meanwhile, the first...
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Bowen, H. Kent, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch, and John Schiavone. "Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (D)." Harvard Business School Case 696-069, November 1995.
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
can you better harness it?”Houston: Yeah. This was also during the rise of SaaS and during the rise of the consumerization of IT. I’d say that initially there’s more View Details
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
it is when you collaborate between scientists, government, the corporate sector, and with communities, that's where the good stuff happens. That's where the answer lies at that intersection.” Many of the guests expressed their desire to...
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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
organization itself become more productive as its individual employees march down the learning curve? "Though the increased use of outsourcing has led to a rise in the number View Details
- 2008
- Report
Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices
By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,...
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Economic Sectors;
Surveys;
Management Practices and Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Delmas, Magali, and Michael W. Toffel. "Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices." Report, 2008. (2008. University of California, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.)
- 29 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration
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by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Aug 2020
- News
What Sets Some Companies Apart in the Current Crisis
- February 2024
- Case
Chime Solutions
Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm...
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Working Capital;
Service Operations;
Recruitment;
Performance;
Change Management;
Retention;
Financial Institutions;
Employee Relationship Management;
Talent and Talent Management;
Growth Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Communications Industry;
Service Industry;
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Bernstein, Shai, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender, and Mel Martin. "Chime Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 824-133, February 2024.
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Favor Men Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? Research by Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle finds the answer is more subtle than expected. The Right Way to Cry in Front View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
about as they help their employees through this process? Rachel: So I think we're in a time where leaders really need to redefine empathy and what it means. Empathy translates in different ways, for example, respecting different levels...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
hire or a firing situation. Issues may also be more personal, such as how to bridge the enormous gap between the leadership of a company and retirement. EE: What sort of...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery