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- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
Angela Noori Son. (01:24) There is an urgent demand for skilled workers trained in blue-collar jobs like electricians and HVAC technicians. These jobs are essential for the functioning of society and...
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- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
lamenting the move away from free trade concepts, Thom Dammrich said, “Protected industries and their workers benefit in the short term, but beyond that protected industries become globally uncompetitive, shrink and lose workers.” David...
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by James Heskett
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
employee monitoring makes the case that if business owners are interested in their customer-facing workers learning and making progressively better decisions over time, they're far better off taking a hands-off approach and granting more...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of the GIs came back, and the women were summarily displaced. Russ Kelly saw that as a huge opportunity, particularly given there was so much demand for workers in the postwar boom. So we were essentially...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learning revive college-for-all? Propel America CEO Chad Rountree on rethinking the high school-to-career transition to meet the needs of low-income students, colleges, and employers. Bill Kerr: Why aren’t there more learn-and-earn programs? Rising college costs and...
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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
skills,” she stresses. Concern for those hit hard by COVID-19 was also behind an open letter penned by Mendu and classmates Amy Villaseñor (MBA 2020) and Steve Moore (MBA 2020), urging FORTUNE 500 CEOs to treat low-wage essential View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
performed a survey. Could you talk a little bit about that study?Fuller: We surveyed both workers and companies to try to understand how workers were affected by their caregiving obligations—were these...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
officials to take steps to enhance competitiveness. “While government policy sets the platform, companies have an essential role in improving the business environment in US communities,” says Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
say, supply has outstripped demand in most markets here, that there have been more gig workers available, and there has really been work to occupy them. In the United States, that’s been changing. Matching global supply is primarily to US...
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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
essential that all key public and private sector players work together to deliver payments digitally,” Goodwin-Groen says. “Those companies and governments that took action and can pay all their front-line View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a...
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Dan Morrell
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
you are able to grow helps reduce the demand on essential workers and contributes to your family’s health,” Zmick says. “And it’s a great way to relax when you are struggling with isolation and uncertainty.”...
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- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
American manufacturer of antibiotics—those life-saving drugs required for pneumonia caused by COVID-19—as others have abandoned them to pursue more lucrative drugs. Frazier elected to stay in the business because he knows how essential...
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- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
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by Bill George
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
are steps that major players working together in metropolitan areas can do to save their cities: When it comes to the elements of soft infrastructure such as education and healthcare, it's essential to create an environment for capital,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
paying me more,” and for employers to have an earnest conversation with them that contextualizes those findings—we want to see the same sets of conversations happen. Chandrasekaran: This is so powerful on two levels, Bill. I mean, one is enabling millions of American...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
called essentially our “productivity” businesses—so started with applications like Office and then over time has expanded into these areas like CRM [customer relationship management] and ERP [enterprise resource planning], kind of large...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
reversed, he says. The next scene shows the plant's general manager. Maybe we can't save the plant, he declares, but we can make them feel really stupid for deciding to close it. That's exactly what plant workers did. With nothing to...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have...
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by Laura Linard