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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
underway in which we would ordinarily provide seven production workers to a customer that would work on a particular product launch. The pilot actually has us bringing in a robot and two people to perform the same functions. One of the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
areas that we haven’t done as well as we’d like to. We do a great job at attracting talent, and we’ve hired what you would call “diverse candidates,” if you will, really well over a third to usually in the 40 percent range of our new hires View Details
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(6 August 2020) 1. Introduction; Changes Please read these Terms of Use and the other Agreements described immediately below before registering for, accessing or using any portion of the Harvard Business School Online website (the “Site,” which View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
consistent with the slope of the line of the rate of resignations we were seeing before Covid—but we’re seeing a low unemployment rate. So people are churning as much as anything else. What do you hear from your affiliates and from your...
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- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences for specific maturities trade...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Public Interest: Roche & Tamiflu Harvard Business School Case 609-061 The case focuses on the challenges of Roche maintaining a supply network for a global influenza pandemic response initiative based on its antiviral drug Tamiflu. The Roche group is a 40 billion...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
finished, or just about to finish, that will give you a flavor of it. Last week we published—in cooperation with the Burning Glass Institute through the philanthropy of the Schultz Family Foundation—we published the American Opportunity Index, which looks at large...
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consistently overcome formidable barriers to achieve truly worthwhile purposes. In a closely related project at Harvard, faculty have conducted detailed interviews with former American Secretaries of State—Henry Kissinger, George Shultz...
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- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
less-speculative appeal for workers and employers alike. Can this earn-and-learn model provide equitable workforce development in a fast-changing digital economy? And can it equip workers with the wherewithal to perform today and develop...
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- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
predictions; (ii) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth consistent with the predictions of the neoclassical model; and (iii)...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
profitability from 15% to 30% over the past seven years, and was consistently selected as a "Best Workplace" in Japan. The secret to DISCO’s success, according to CEO Kazuma Sekiya, lies in its truly individualized management of human...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
consistently, 70 percent tell us that they intend to stay with us for the first few years after graduation. That’s gone up and down a little bit, but not much. And it’s been pretty consistent across both cohorts.Fuller: Research would...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
it—that project managers and executives and companies, they’re very familiar with how they manage a traditional supplier. So I’ve hired a consulting firm or an ad agency or something and know how to do that. I know how to manage a worker that works for me, where I...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
cross-sector partnerships in order to improve market positioning. The companies started off with the following question: what are the obstacles hindering corporate performance and how can cross-sector collaborations contribute to...
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