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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
When it comes to marketing next season’s trends, the brightest fashion brains rely on more than just last year’s numbers. They also tap into their own innate, if unscientific, intuition—what Trendalytics’ Karen Moon (MBA 2008) calls “the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a shortfall in demand due to “some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term responses to a global recession... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
go to Wall Street, the worse the market will do. "It's not that Harvard MBAs are stupid," Soifer assured the Financial Times (September 12, 2001). Instead, he explained, Wall Street firms make generous offers in good times when the View Details
- Fast Answer
Historical wages by industry
Where do I find historical data on wages for a US industry? US data is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. International data is available from the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
Japanese airline facing a declining domestic market can expand internationally. It potentially will become a “home run” case, as Chung calls it—one that focuses on a compelling topic in an important industry that is global in nature.... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
is whether these efforts overlook a much larger job crisis ahead, one involving the service sector. The focus of attention is on a sector of the American economy that employs 12.3 million people, down from about 17.3 million in 2000, a 29 percent decline. According to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
division and in time, had a revelation: “Seeing some of the trends in organic foods, I could see a lot of interest in the return to slow food and family farming,” he recalls. “I had a feeling the ginseng market had to turn around.” +... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Quelch in Vietnam
assistance. Said Dung, “Vietnam is in great need of support from international organizations and academic institutions for developing good human resources.” Quelch was in Vietnam to conduct research. View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
problematic for multinationals. Their concerns have caused Beijing to begin to deal with the problems this system creates. As part of its efforts to build the “rule of law,” the government now supports a number of legal-aid programs for “temporary” workers. Not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
rethink our corporate governance structure in fundamental ways for the 21st century. There are three things we have to think about during the conference. First, when did executive pay become unmoored from internal View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
members of the Fed pay attention to media speculation? How do they deal with a situation where the speculation is going in the wrong direction and will likely result in a “surprise” to the markets when announced? Would they prefer to... View Details
- 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
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
trend in global labor markets. In the end, students grapple with a very recent phenomenon for entrepreneurial companies—they may start global for the first phases of development and then consolidate into a single location, the opposite of... View Details