Labor Force Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

pounding). In two experiments, participants were eye-tracked while viewing photographs of men and women adopting either dominant, high-power (i.e., expansive and open) or submissive, low-power (i.e., contractive and closed) nonverbal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

courses, reaching more than 29,000 participants in fiscal 2020 and generating positive cash from operations and an operating surplus for the second consecutive year. To help college students become fluent in the language of business and... View Details

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are fully rational or at least can be induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019

Legacy: Family Office Wealth Management. 12,605 Participants 29 % Women 64 % International The Reflective Leader This three-day residential Executive Education program offered approximately 60 senior-level, high-achieving MBA alumni... View Details

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

bargaining agreements with organized labor. Thus, while in bankruptcy, American was able to negotiate new labor agreements with its three largest unions, generating what some expect will be hundreds of millions of dollars in additional... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit "blind spot." While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota "strives to use its labor force... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

tomorrows. Appropriately, therefore, some nine hundred participants - most of them HBS alumni - convened in San Francisco last March to assess the outlook for business as it stands poised at the edge of unknown territory. At the elegant... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

bad process—one perceived as unfair, illegitimate, or simply confusing—can create unnecessary barriers to agreement and that good process design can promote breakthroughs. Principle 4: Breakthrough Negotiators Foster Agreement When Possible But Employ View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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Global - Global Activities 2020

researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker’s production in Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China’s labor shortage of migrant workers.... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts

anti-Communist.” When his parents' marriage ended, his university-educated mother was forced to become a seamstress, and Djelic experienced economic deprivation firsthand. But his obvious talents won him admission to elite schools. With... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Could you describe some of these entrepreneurial efforts? A: There is a lot of talk—both in this book and elsewhere—about the massive potential consumer market at the base of the economic pyramid. However, for a poor consumer, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

organizations. The group’s tuition revenue increased 29 percent to $224 million, significantly above our forecast and just shy of the group’s pre-pandemic high, set four years ago. In fiscal 2023, Executive Education participation... View Details

14 Oct 2002
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The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's environment holds the potential for these three forces to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

not. Often the critical success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and social media are changing the status quo and forcing... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

firm following a turnover is largely determined by two factors: whether the turnover is forced or natural and whether an internal or external candidate is selected as the successor. To understand better the inner workings of the chief... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

course of the last nine years, I have, pretty much, worked exclusively on the energy transition and addressing climate change. But continuously, by looking for ways in which business can be a force for good. And can be the scaling... View Details

07 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

that a Buddhist Rinpoche and a leadership professor have joined forces to explore this subject and see how Eastern teaching can inform our Western thinking about leadership and vice versa," George says. You can read George's summary... View Details