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  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

advancement—especially important in a hot labor market at a time of economic uncertainty. “Your digital network can have lasting implications on how your career progresses, not just over the next year, but over your whole life,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

Globalization Globalization December 2014 Article Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World By: Paul M. Healy , George Serafeim , Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu We examine how cross-country differences in... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

basic social capabilities are perceived to play a key role for the success of complex and information intensive organizations. It is unclear, however, whether the supply of social skills in the managerial labor market has been able to... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Financing Higher Education in Australia

By: David Moss and Stephanie Lo
Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Financing and Loans; Government and Politics; Australia
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  • 01 Feb 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics

  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

labor protests and a federal law to prevent a repeat of “L’affaire Michelin.” Generations of trust evaporated. The company regained it with a 10-year turnaround and a commitment to closely collaborating with workers at every step. "Trust... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • News

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

proportion of Latin Americans rose from 18 percent to 47 percent, and the proportion of Asians from 4 percent to 37 percent.4 By 1980, the integration of worldwide capital, commodity, and labor markets remained limited compared to the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

Identify all likely and potential opponents at the outset of the process. Project advocates often find themselves in reactive, defensive mode, having focused too late on opponents who have seized the initiative. For Amazon’s project, opposition from organized View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 10 Feb 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA

  • Web

Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

(ICGS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award for “Does Information Technology Reduce Corporate Misconduct?” with Jonas Heese. Joseph Pacelli : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2022 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting for "Communicating Corporate Culture in View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Capitalism today is under attack, criticized from many quarters as being the source of societal ills that range from inequality and systemic racism to climate change and labor market disruption. The goal of CATS is both to examine these... View Details
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

  • 11 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

There’s a new frontier in diversity programs focused not on race or gender but on cognitive ability. The growing interest in neurodiversity—hiring people with cognitive disabilities like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—is motivated by companies looking to tap into a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Assistant Professor Zoë Cullen. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create challenges for companies attempting to fill job openings as record numbers of people quit their jobs in search of new opportunities in a hot labor... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Events - Business History

Harvard Business School). Nov 14 14 Nov 2022 Business History Seminar Kendra Boyd (Rutgers), “The Great Depression, Black Nationalist Organizing, and Radical Economics in Detroit” Nov 7 07 Nov 2022 Business History Seminar Diana Kim (Georgetown), "A Most Durable... View Details
  • Web

Gary Works Photograph Album | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details