Filter Results
:
(209)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(964)
- People (1)
- News (209)
- Research (598)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (141)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(964)
- People (1)
- News (209)
- Research (598)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (141)
Sort by
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Golden Antelope Press This collection of 21 stories is organized into five sections, each with stories loosely focused on a particular place, time, and set of characters. The Blue Heron Lake stories follow a community of Latino workers...
View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
insights into how managers can engage frontline workers to solve problems. Reunion presentation: Designing Care, Professor Richard Bohmer Health care–related programs and courses are nothing new at HBS; in recent years, 10 percent of...
View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
thus far, said Amabile, is that the research suggests that workers are incorrect in their frequent belief that they are more creative when they are working under deadline pressure. A dearth of time pressure, however, does not inspire...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a company-based plan. The plan’s...
View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be successful...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
create a culture of gratitude and positive reinforcement of the values that members espouse. Reimert learned these lessons firsthand as a remote worker from the very start of her career. When she began at the high-tech firm, the job offer...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
and more productive workers. In this excerpt, the authors sketch out the scope of the opportunity. “Why are we ignoring the 90 percent?” This is the question with which Joe likes to start most presentations, to get the audience thinking...
View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
with applications and now employs local residents, many of whom walk to work, with much less turnover than Sprint's suburban call centers. "They took a risk, but it paid off - they now have a solid pool of workers who are very happy to...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
rationale as to why this union-backed legislation is needed and why it is good for employees. Alas, he didn’t. In my 20s and 30s, I directly supervised a total of several thousand hourly workers in at least a dozen departments in both New...
View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
California, graduating from Live Oak High School in 1993. Despite the dangerous, backbreaking nature of migrant life, Curiel values the work ethic he developed and the long periods of time spent with his family, naming his father — killed with four other migrant View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes....
View Details
Keywords:
Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the company operates approximately...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
bus. START SMALL, THINK BIG: Clients of Compartamos Banco, a microfinance institution based in Mexico City that funds entrepreneurial activity in the areas of agriculture, crafts, and consumer products and clothing. Courtesy Compartamos...
View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
women was the power to control their own money and time. Koehn quoted Josephine Baker, a factory worker who, in 1847, wrote, "The money we earn comes promptly and comes to us. When we are finished we feel perfectly free until the time to...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
plus parks, a museum, even a beer garden. "We are tackling one of our nation's biggest challenges, fixing health care," said President and CEO Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), and creating a dedicatedspace where workers can be "creative,...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged bakery View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class,” by Professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman, a program director and senior researcher at HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project. The impact of the practice cuts most deeply for the 76 percent of Black and 83...
View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human...
View Details