Filter Results
:
(2,493)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,493)
- People (3)
- News (798)
- Research (1,230)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (33)
- Faculty Publications (552)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,493)
- People (3)
- News (798)
- Research (1,230)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (33)
- Faculty Publications (552)
- 06 Oct 2021
- News
Robots Are Hiding 27 Million Workers from Employers Who Need Them
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
How The Pandemic Could Give Workers More Leverage
- 05 Jun 2020
- News
Businessweek Extra - Frances Frei
- 22 Jan 2014
- News
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Five Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
- October 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Toni Sacconaghi at Sanford C. Bernstein
By: Linda A. Hill and Dana Teppert
Toni Sacconaghi, a senior sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein covering U.S. IT hardware companies, thinks about the challenges and opportunities presented by the firm's new office in Hong Kong. Sacconaghi was previously the only analyst covering...
View Details
Keywords:
Employees;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Research;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Financial Services Industry;
Hong Kong;
United States
Hill, Linda A., and Dana Teppert. "Toni Sacconaghi at Sanford C. Bernstein." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-052, October 2010. (Revised July 2012.)
- June 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Supplement
Jonah Creighton (B)
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Covers Jonah's two-hour meeting with the company's executive vice president who is next in line to become president, and the outcome of the discriminatory hiring incident that initially troubled Jonah.
View Details
Donnellon, Anne, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Jonah Creighton (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 490-091, June 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
- December 1992 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Becton Dickinson Division: Marketing Organization
The marketing director for the largest division of a health care products company is reviewing the structure and staffing of the division's marketing organization. The division has authorization to hire an additional marketing manager. Hence, the immediate case...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Conglomerates;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Managerial Roles;
Product Marketing;
Measurement and Metrics;
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Health Industry
Cespedes, Frank V. "Becton Dickinson Division: Marketing Organization." Harvard Business School Case 593-070, December 1992. (Revised November 1994.)
- March–April 2023
- Article
The New-Collar Workforce
By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing...
View Details
Ammerman, Colleen, Boris Groysberg, and Ginni Rometty. "The New-Collar Workforce." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 2 (March–April 2023): 96–103.
- April 1998 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
CitySoft, Inc.
By: Myra M. Hart, Marco Iansiti, Andrea H. Chermayeff and Diana S. Gardner
Two entrepreneurs are discussing how to scale-up their new company. They face a variety of issues, ranging from hiring and training to strategy and focus.
View Details
Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Selection and Staffing;
Internet;
Web Services Industry
Hart, Myra M., Marco Iansiti, Andrea H. Chermayeff, and Diana S. Gardner. "CitySoft, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 698-080, April 1998. (Revised November 1999.)
- 27 Oct 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Growing a Manufacturing Company with a Social Mission
- 01 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities
unintentional, nevertheless create boundaries to employment. We asked four HBS alumni with diverse abilities to share their perspective on recruiting, both as candidates and as hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers. The advice...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- November 2011
- Case
WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan
By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Rachel Shelton
A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store...
View Details
Keywords:
Empowerment;
Middle Management;
Human Resource Management;
Compensation;
Incentives;
Motivation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Change Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Service Delivery;
Entrepreneurship;
Employees;
Compensation and Benefits;
Service Industry;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
California
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr., and Rachel Shelton. "WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-362, November 2011.
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. And handsome men fare best of all. Why Employers Favor Men Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? The answer is more subtle than expected. Simple Ways to...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- August 2007
- Case
Lightspeed Venture Partners -- International Expansion
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Looks at various international expansion models for a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lightspeed Venture Partners believed that India had tremendous potential for venture capital returns--the question was how best to tap into that potential while also...
View Details
Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Expansion;
Investment Return;
Global Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Investment;
International Finance;
Organizational Structure;
India;
Israel
Palepu, Krishna G., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Lightspeed Venture Partners -- International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 108-010, August 2007.
- October 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Baxter's Asia Pacific 'Talent Edge' Initiative
By: Jordan Siegel, Mimi Xi and Christopher Poliquin
This case examines whether multinationals have a potential competitive weapon in aggressively exploiting social schisms in host labor markets and in hiring and promoting senior managers from excluded groups.
View Details
Siegel, Jordan, Mimi Xi, and Christopher Poliquin. "Baxter's Asia Pacific 'Talent Edge' Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 711-408, October 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that performance at another," they wrote. The lessons are directly...
View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. “The...
View Details
Keywords:
by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Sep 2010
- News