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- 2021
- Working Paper
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek
to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting
and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received...
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- April 2004 (Revised May 2006)
- Background Note
Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value
By: James L. Heskett and Richard G. Hamermesh
Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's leadership, strategy, and execution need to evolve to deal with rapid growth.
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Heskett, James L., and Richard G. Hamermesh. "Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-157, April 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the...
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- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
should be heavily regulated, is the market for indentured servants. A market like that with asymmetric information—in which one person knows a whole lot more about potential View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
markets , globalization , strategy Interviews Adib AlZamil Dr. R.S. Sodhi Dr. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Muhammad Musa Mohamed Jaffer Naina Lal Kidwai Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw James Mwangi Sunil Bharti Mittal Devi Shetty Mo Ibrahim Zia Mody...
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Real estate: emerging markets
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/wdi.html" target="_blank" title="World Development Indicators">World Development Indicators Statistics for almost 600 development indicators (including public health, environment, education, and labor...
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- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes For 25 years, David Brunell (MBA 1962) has worked in private sector development all over the world, transforming centralized economies to market-based economies in 20 different countries, including...
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- July 2011 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Foxconn Technology Group (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng
In 2010, Foxconn Technology Group, the largest and fastest growing multinational company in the Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry, came under public scrutiny after a string of employee suicides reached the international press. Although the company was...
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Multinational;
Labor Market;
Electronic Manufacturing Services;
Health & Wellness;
Robots;
Automation;
Social Responsibility;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Stocks;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Capital Markets;
Supply Chain Management;
Safety;
Environmental Accounting;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
China
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Beiting Cheng. "Foxconn Technology Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 112-002, July 2011. (Revised June 2013.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity
By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Most research on the CEO labor market studies public company CEOs while largely ignoring CEOs in private equity (PE) funded companies. We fill this gap by studying the market for CEOs among U.S. companies purchased by PE firms in large leveraged buyout transactions....
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Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30899, April 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 07 Dec 2010
- News
Innovations from Emerging Markets
- May 2023
- Article
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek
to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting
and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received...
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Keywords:
Pay Transparency;
Online Labor Market;
Privacy;
Wage Gap;
Corporate Disclosure;
Wages;
Negotiation
Cullen, Zoë B., and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. "Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency." Econometrica 91, no. 3 (May 2023): 765–802. (Lead Article.)
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
the Web," she says. Related Links Amy Schiffman Langer in the HBS video documentary "A Woman's Place" Management skills learned at HBS helped Langer, who became executive director in 1990, establish a diverse and wide-ranging mission of...
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- December 2011
- Article
EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets
By: Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna
Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and Turkey. Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula....
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Keywords:
Emerging Markets;
Business Model;
Economic Growth;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Research;
Business Education;
Learning;
Financial Institutions;
Framework;
Transformation;
Perspective;
India;
China;
Brazil;
South Africa;
Turkey
Dhanaraj, Charles, and Tarun Khanna. "EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets." Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 4 (December 2011).
- December 2012
- Article
Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical...
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Keywords:
Living Standards;
Real Wages;
Labor Market;
Colonial Institutions;
Economic Growth;
Wages;
History;
Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 4 (December 2012): 895–926. (Awarded Economic History Association's Arthur Cole Prize for best article published in The Journal of Economic History in 2012.)
- August 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Supplement
Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Keywords:
Labor Relations;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Sustainability;
International Marketing;
Supply Chain Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Marketing;
Labor Unions;
Environmental Sustainability;
Globalized Markets and Industries
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation." Harvard Business School Supplement 516-014, August 2015. (Revised March 2016.)
- 05 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
men—who had gone abroad in search of work—are now reuniting with their families. “This is changing lives, and I love it, “says Ferrari, a former Coca Cola marketing executive who also spent several years...
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- June 2021
- Article
Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design
By: Benjamin N. Roth and Ran I. Shorrer
Often market designers cannot force agents to join a marketplace rather than using pre-existing institutions. We propose a new desideratum for marketplace design that guarantees the safety of participation: Dominant Individual Rationality (DIR). A marketplace is DIR if...
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Roth, Benjamin N., and Ran I. Shorrer. "Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design." Management Science 67, no. 6 (June 2021).
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
VLACHOUTSICOS Photo courtesy of Charalambos Vlachoutsicos The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the seismic event that symbolized the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communist rule in Russia and Eastern Europe....
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- November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Supplement
Foxconn Technology Group (B)
By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng
The (B) case presents Foxconn’s plan to replace manual labor with robots and move some of its employees to more interesting and sophisticated jobs.
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Keywords:
Multinational;
Labor Market;
Electronic Manufacturing Services;
Health & Wellness;
Robots;
Automation;
Social Responsibility;
Employee Relationship Management;
Safety;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Technology Industry;
China
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Beiting Cheng. "Foxconn Technology Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 112-058, November 2011. (Revised February 2012.)