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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA
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- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
her time between factory floors, design meetings, setting the strategy, and crunching the numbers. “I’m happy that I was there as the production manager when we started out, but I had to determine the best use of my time View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
over, certified that ethical boundaries were being respected.” Massie was learning a lot, too — not only a greater comprehension of the business process and ethos, but also the managerial skills that have...
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- 15 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path
while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is...
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- Forthcoming
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Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric
By: Tom Nicholas
This paper estimates the returns to human capital accumulation during the first era of mega-firms in the United States by linking employees at General Electric—a canonical enterprise associated with the “visible hand” of managerial hierarchies—to the 1940 census. I...
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Keywords:
Returns To Education;
Management Practices;
Hierarchies;
Management Practices and Processes;
Rank and Position;
Human Capital;
Talent and Talent Management;
Business History;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online November 29, 2023.)
- July 8, 2022
- Article
How to Conduct a Great Performance Review
Dissatisfaction with performance appraisals is pervasive, but they remain an essential managerial responsibility. The purpose of performance reviews is two-fold: an accurate and actionable evaluation of performance, and then development of that person’s skills in line...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "How to Conduct a Great Performance Review." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 8, 2022).
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards
The US corporate tax code is impeding the nation’s ability to compete in the worldwide economy, according to Mihir A. Desai (MBA 1993, PhD 1998), the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance. Desai has found that current US policies...
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- March 2019
- Article
A Structural Analysis of the Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests
By: Shunyuan Zhang, Param Singh and Anindya Ghose
We investigate the long-term impact of competing against superstars in crowdsourcing contests. Using a unique 50-month longitudinal panel data set on 1677 software design crowdsourcing contests, we illustrate a learning effect where participants are able to improve...
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Keywords:
Crowdsourcing Contests;
Superstar Effect;
Bayesian Learning;
Utility;
Economics Of Information System;
Dynamic Structural Model;
Dynamic Programming;
Markov Chain;
Monte Carlo;
Learning;
Competition;
Performance Improvement
Zhang, Shunyuan, Param Singh, and Anindya Ghose. "A Structural Analysis of the Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests." Information Systems Research 30, no. 1 (March 2019): 15–33.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2009
- Article
Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model
By: P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy and S.T. Fiske
The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific cultural stereotypes and associated emotional prejudices (Fiske et al., 2002). No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Mathematical Methods;
Emotions;
Personal Characteristics;
Prejudice and Bias;
Status and Position;
Culture;
Competition
Caprariello, P., A.J.C. Cuddy, and S.T. Fiske. "Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 12, no. 2 (2009): 147–155.
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- Chapter
Creative Human Resources in the R&D Laboratory: How Environment and Personality Impact Innovation
By: T. M. Amabile and S. S. Gryskiewicz
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, examines an alternative route for American teenagers and companies alike: The apprenticeships popular in many European countries. Looking closely at a successful US apprentice...
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by Michael Blanding
- Article
Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems
By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell
Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.
Data... View Details
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Perspective;
Opportunities;
Safety;
Performance Efficiency;
System;
Failure;
Conferences;
Employees;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Experience and Expertise;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Tucker, Anita L., Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell. "Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems." Health Services Research 43, nos. 5, pt.2 (October 2008).
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to...
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by Kristen Senz
- 2009
- Working Paper
Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration
By: Mark Mortensen and T. B. Neeley
While scholars contend that firsthand experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Experience and Expertise;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Trust
Mortensen, Mark, and T. B. Neeley. "Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-131, May 2009. (Under second review, Management Science.)
- 23 Jul 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Creative Consulting Company
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4
By: Clayton M. Christensen
An overview teaching note showing instructors how to link together the concepts students should learn from discussing the cases in the fourth module of the Managing Innovation course. Summarizes the "Resources, Processes, & Values" framework of organizational...
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- October 2012
- Article
Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
Key to the effective use of big data are the analytical professionals known as "data scientists," who can both manipulate large and unstructured data sources and create insights from them. Data scientists are difficult to hire and retain, but their skills will be...
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Keywords:
Big Data;
Data Scientists;
Business Analytics;
Analytics and Data Science;
Mathematical Methods;
Jobs and Positions
Davenport, Thomas H., and D. J. Patil. "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 10 (October 2012): 70–76.
- November 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Discovering Hidden Gems: The Story of Daryl Morey, Shane Battier, and the Houston Rockets (A)
By: Frances X. Frei and Matthew Todd Perlberg
As NBA Commissioner David Stern approached the podium, silent anticipation gripped the 4,000 Houston Rockets fans gathered at the Rockets Draft Party. "With the 8th pick in the 2006 NBA draft," Stern began, "the Houston Rockets select Rudy Gay from the University of...
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Keywords:
Sports;
Talent and Talent Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Operations;
Groups and Teams;
Sports Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Matthew Todd Perlberg. "Discovering Hidden Gems: The Story of Daryl Morey, Shane Battier, and the Houston Rockets (A)." Harvard Business School Case 610-038, November 2009. (Revised September 2010.)