Publications

Summer 2009
Guest Column

Understanding Child Labor in India

By: Akshay Mangla

2024
Working Paper

Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo

We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity

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October 1999 (Revised September 2000)
Case

Han Young Labor Dispute, The, (C): Spring-Summer 1998

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

September 1980 (Revised January 1985)
Background Note

Some Background Information on the Division of Labor

May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman

Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues

Educators

2003
Other Unpublished Work

Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets

By: Rakesh Khurana and Mikolaj J. Piskorski

Keywords: Management; Equality and Inequality

January 1995
Article

Internal Labor Markets: Too Many Theories, Too Few Facts

By: George P. Baker and Bengt Holmstrom

Keywords: Labor; Markets; Theory

Research Summary

Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets

This paper develops a model of local unraveling (or early hiring) in entry-level labor markets. Information about workers' productivity is revealed over time and transmitted credibly via a two-sided network connecting firms and workers. While employment starts only... View Details

September 2016
Article

Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market

By: Sonia K. Kang, K. A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik and Sora Jun

Using interviews, a laboratory experiment, and a résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening."... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Job Search; Race

autumn 1981
Article

Strike Two: Labor Management Negotiations in Major League Baseball

By: L. M. DeBrock and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Negotiation; Entertainment; Sports Industry

09 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian & Xiaoxue Zhao

December 2022 (Revised March 2023)
Teaching Note

Spanish Labor Law: Lifting all Boats or Leveling Down?

By: Vincent Pons

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-008. View Details

July 1999
Background Note

Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor

By: Roy D. Shapiro

A brief note on the origins and uses of standard times in production process flow diagrams and on the benefits and drawbacks of division of labor. A rewritten version of two earlier notes. View Details

Keywords: Labor; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Production

Educators

14 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

Keywords: by Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

April 2001
Article

Optimal Portfolio Choice for Long-Horizon Investors with Nontradable Labor Income

By: Luis M. Viceira

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May 1984 (Revised August 1995)
Teaching Note

Organized Labor and the Worker, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Teaching Note for (9-391-256). View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions

winter 1994
Article

Case Management and the Integration of Labor

By: T. Davenport and N. Nohria

Keywords: Management; Labor; Integration

1962
Book

Spearheads of Democracy: The Role of Labor in Developing Countries

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Government and Politics; Labor; Developing Countries and Economies

2012
Discussion Paper

Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano

Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore