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- 13 Apr 2022
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Micha Kaufman on the new terms of the talent bargain
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- 13 Feb 2022
- News
- Boston Globe
With Job Vacancies High, Employers Seek Out Workers They Might Have Previously Passed Over
Re: Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman
| Nationwide, there are more than 27 million “hidden workers” who are unemployed or underemployed because they are routinely screened out during the hiring process, according to a 2021 Harvard Business School study by Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman. These are people...
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- 11 Feb 2022
- News
- Harvard Business Review
Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise
By: Joseph Fuller
| Two decades ago, companies began adding degree requirements to job descriptions, even though the jobs themselves hadn’t changed. After the Great Recession, many organizations began trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the...
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- 10 Feb 2022
- News
- Working Nation
Guiding Low-Wage Workers on the Upward Mobility Path Is a Win for Employees and Companies
Re: Joseph Fuller
| It suggests businesses need to rethink how they view low-wage workers who make up 44% of the workforce and focus on carving out upward mobility paths for these employees. “It’s going to be really perilous for companies to keep running the old playbook. There just...
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- 09 Feb 2022
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Goodwill’s Steve Preston on how to upcycle career prospects
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- 02 Feb 2022
- News
- Morning Brew
The Key to Retaining Low Wage Workers? Opportunity for Growth, Survey Says
Re: Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman
| High turnover, even when voluntary, is costly for companies, and the current tight labor market makes the impact of voluntary churn even more of a challenge than it was before Covid. However, new research from Harvard Business School professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari...
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- 2022
- Book Chapter
Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
| Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are...
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- 30 Jan 2022
- News
- Economist
How America’s Talent Wars Are Reshaping Business
Re: Joseph Fuller
| The share of job postings that list “no experience required” more than doubled from January 2020 to September 2021, according to Burning Glass, an analytics firm. Easing rigid criteria may be sensible, even without a labour shortage. A four-year degree, argues Joseph...
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- 29 Jan 2022
- News
- MarketWatch
How Companies’ Business Models Put Workers in a ‘Low-Wage Trap’—and How to Break the Cycle
Re: Joseph Fuller
| “Many entry-level jobs lead workers to being caught in a low-wage trap, and employers fuel that by designing jobs around the assumption that high levels of turnover are inevitable,” Joseph Fuller, the study’s lead author and a Harvard Business School professor of...
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- 28 Jan 2022
- News
- Harvard Gazette
Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots
Re: Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman
| New HBS research offers a possible strategy to help businesses do well and do good. It found that if companies invested in workers and provided them training and a pathway to career advancement within the company, they’d slow the churn, improve competitiveness by...
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- 26 Jan 2022
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Josh Bersin on why CHROs are at the center of the action
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- 26 Jan 2022
- News
- Axios
Fed Plays Wait and See with Monetary Policy
Re: Joseph Fuller
| Inflation is a “particular economic scourge” for low-wage workers, Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, tells Axios. Rising prices can lead to more people switching jobs to try to get higher wages, which in turn leads to labor...
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- 26 Jan 2022
- News
- Morning Brew
Why More Organizations Are Dropping College-Degree Requirements for Job Candidates
Re: Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
- Working Knowledge
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
by HBS News
| Surging COVID-19 cases may have dampened optimism at the start of 2022, but change could be on the horizon. Harvard Business School faculty members share the trends they're watching this year.
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- 12 Jan 2022
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Contingent to career: Kelly Services’ Peter Quigley on reinventing work and creating good jobs
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- 2022
- Other
Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
| A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs, low-wage workers are—and have long been—the most likely to be overlooked by...
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- 15 Dec 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
SHRM’s Johnny C. Taylor Jr. on updating the HR playbook
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