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- April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Handy: The Future of Work? (A)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments...
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Employment;
Working Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Compensation and Benefits;
Internet and the Web;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Service Industry;
United States
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Kieron Stopforth. "Handy: The Future of Work? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 319-103, April 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- Portrait Project
Mickey Millar
quality education and health care, living wages, voting rights, fair treatment by police, even access to healthy food and water. For an America we all love to believe in, but which doesn't exist when you're poor and black. A prestigious...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Keith Sonderling on job fairness in the age of AI The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has a broad mandate, policing discrimination in all aspects of employment. How does artificial...
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- 30 May 2024
- Blog Post
PRIDE at HBS
September – one of the most popular HBS social events of the year and a great opportunity to have fun with the PRIDE community and beyond. Diversity Career Fair: Alongside other clubs, PRIDE hosts the Diversity Career Fair which brings...
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- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
actively trying to reach out to other people of other races, then no, I wouldn’t include it.” But these applicants who let their guard down about their race ended up inadvertently hurting their chances of being considered: View Details
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All Industries
- Profile
David Soled
Coming from Los Angeles, I arrived on campus with a nice tan, confidence, and the belief I had accomplished a fair amount of what I wanted to achieve in my career so far. While my tan might have disappeared after my first Boston winter,...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
The Class of 2007 is settling nicely into the world of work, with 94 percent of graduates seeking jobs having accepted an employment offer by September. Just over 15 percent of the class are not now looking for employment; most of this...
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- Web
Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About
Statement on Supreme Court Decision Harvard University leadership, including Dean Srikant Datar, address the Harvard community after the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of...
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- Portrait Project
Megha Mathur
educate their families. These women did, however, believe they deserved fair treatment at work through reasonable wages and access to health care. Seeing the beautiful homes that the women were building through a job that left their...
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- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
the Harvard community as well as the broader young professional African network though our annual conference. OBJECTIVES Provide a forum for career opportunities for students interested in the African region, as well as employers seeking...
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All Industries
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be...
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by Eric Werker
- 21 Feb 2014
- Blog Post
Cautious Optimism: A Recap of the Harvard India Conference
leaders of Indian industry ranging from the senior-most leadership of India’s biggest CPG Company to some of the leading names in the Indian VC world. The second day at the Kennedy school offered the chance for the policy wonks and...
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- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
offered research jobs at the same big firms that were hiring her male classmates as executives. So she opted for a job at a small investment bank that came with a lower salary, but also a chance to prove herself. "They gave me the View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress Franklin Roosevelt and the New DealArt of the New Deal 1935 National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed 1938 View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
careers, maximize their employment opportunities, and protect their employment rights. His belief in the effectiveness of public-private partnerships resulted in Hiring Our Heroes, a partnership with the US...
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Robert S. Benchley
- February 2007
- Case
South African Airways (A)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO...
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Fairness;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Employment;
Growth and Development;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Air Transportation Industry;
South Africa
Margolis, Joshua D., Laura Morgan Roberts, and Laura Winig. "South African Airways (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-014, February 2007.
- Profile
Jamal Motlagh
meeting with the coach of a Spanish team who had seen Jamal play and now offered him a position. "I was at a crossroads: do I stay with Microsoft, or do I dare to be great?" Jamal dared – and played a season with Molins de Rei. Learning by not doing Knowing...
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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s...
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Elisabeth Ndour
learned that good things happen through trial and error. I knew that my experience at HBS would be richer because of the energy that would be here!” As it turned out, the most challenging part of her FIELD 2 project in Shanghai was the language barrier. “I’ve travelled...
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