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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

Christopher Stanton Associate Professor, Entrepreneurial Management Ariel Stern Associate Professor, Technology & Operations Management Boris Vallée Associate Professor, Finance New Faculty Twenty faculty members, including assistant professors, visitors, and... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

for the 40 percent of American workers stuck in low-wage jobs? This session will feature recent research from the School's Managing the Future of Work Project. Participants will gain an understanding of what lies beneath the headlines and... View Details

18 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry over whether soda companies can be View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

every time you saw him there was that unquenchable curiosity. Chandler's curiosity was a force of nature, and it didn't stop. When I last spoke to him he was going great guns on his next project. My sense was that Al took his measure of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

comfortable with the status quo. Why change, particularly if a person had a good management job? When offered the opportunity to participate in this initiative, about 14 percent of Zappos’ employees, many of them managers who saw... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

learn to silence their critical voices. The design firm IDEO, in its brainstorming sessions, tells participants to produce, for example, 150 ideas in less than 45 minutes. The impossible time limit and quota View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

racial/ethnical/cultural backgrounds, yet who feel forced to choose or be bucketed by social perceptions. I co-founded Mixed Millennial with the purpose of bringing a voice, community, and sense of belonging to a silent group. Nori... View Details

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

when a better price can be found online. The change in shopping habits will only speed up as the younger generation becomes a dominant force in retail shopping. These consumers are increasingly comfortable buying online in categories that... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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Harvard Business School

on Brittain in 2011. Charles Bush MBA 1972 Charles Bush was an American civil rights activist, senior corporate executive, and United States Air Force officer. Bush was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the United States... View Details

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

01 Dec 2020
What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2013
News

Beantown as a Beacon

Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

backlash ” Harti commented that, “The problem arises when the capital moves off-shore and the work force can’t follow.” Michael put it more bluntly: “I think many Americans have woken up in a state of shocked disbelief to find out free... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

time crunched, the last thing we want to do is squander labor market opportunity and flexibility. Yet that’s what could happen if new companies are forced to build workforces based on dated assumptions about... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

06 Dec 2021
News

Tipping Point

November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations"... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

December 2001
Case

Van Bolton: Resolving a Labor-Management Dispute

Describes the challenges facing Van Bolton, the head of a large airline, as he works with the head of the company's pilots' union to negotiate issues relating to the acquisition of a smaller airline. Bolton must find ways to surmount a history of adversarial... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Labor Unions; Acquisition; Air Transportation Industry

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01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested

has made that topic elusive, for a lot of reasons, with the methods that we use. Zoë, your study of schmoozing and the old boys’ club drew on big data sets. How do you use data to isolate the forces at play in a workplace setting? ZC:... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

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