Executive Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

Profiting from the World’s Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends by Bud Conrad (MBA ’71) (Wiley) Conrad predicts a rough road ahead, due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using the Black-Scholes formula, how much top View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

are competitive enterprises — Rubicon produces high-qualitycakes, for example — that just happen to employ folksthat the rest of the labor market often won't hire," he says. "Wedon't operate on a... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

22 Feb 2022
News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

than in most other countries. For instance, developed markets such as Sweden and Finland had more muted fiscal responses. They also had different responses on the medical side of the crisis. All these factors are somewhat confounding; the... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

Markets don't just determine prices, they also determine who gets what. For commodities, the price does most of the work, but many markets, like labor markets, don't clear by price alone. You don't hire just... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

trouble but project an authenticity welcomed by many voters. He is keeping his marketing powder dry until after Labor Day, gambling that Clinton's August advertising blitz will not yet have sealed his... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2001
News

Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

of Tom’s classes could ever forget him.” Kennedy developed an expertise in international labor relations while teaching from 1976 to 1978 in an Executive Education program then offered by HBS in Switzerland.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

mother of two children, Kidwai, a devotee of Western and Indian classical music, enjoys returning to the Himalayas for trekking and to observe wildlife. India and China seem similar — slumbering giants waking to a global, market economy.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

versus the inside. Marketing expertise depends on customer insights. These insights cannot be gleaned from looking at market research data on a computer screen. Just like politics, all View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

2017
Working Paper

Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance

By: Ethan Rouen

I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee... View Details

Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance

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09 Jun 2015
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media

different insights into developing and executing a successful social media strategy. Brand Manager's Guide to Losing Control Social media platforms have taken some of the marketing power away from companies... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Advertising

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

competition is so intense.” Detroit, by contrast, has hobbled itself, experts say, in two notable ways: Labor agreements, financially generous but tightly circumscribed regarding worker activity, have hindered innovative uses of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2001
News

Classic Lines

attracting some fifteen million viewers weekly. Enter Dekkers Davidson (MBA '82), CEO of Antiques America, an online company (antiquesamerica.com) that brings together buyers and sellers in this $25 billion market and wants to be the... View Details

Keywords: antiques; Information

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, who cochaired the one-week immersion with Dennis Campbell, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration. “We started with a very basic question: ‘What should we really know about Southeast... View Details

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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog

if so, when? We begin by building frameworks for different paths of technology adoption and what these scenarios mean for firms and workers. Labor markets and good jobs. What defines a good job? Where are... View Details

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