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- September 2019
- Supplement
Hidrovias do Brasil – Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives
By: Boris Groysberg
Keywords:
Human Resources;
Private Equity;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Growth and Development;
Leadership;
Operations;
Problems and Challenges;
Transportation;
Human Capital;
Transportation Industry;
Brazil
Groysberg, Boris. "Hidrovias do Brasil – Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-712, September 2019.
- 2015
- Working Paper
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility
By: Gary Becker, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Murphy and Jorg L. Spenkuch
We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human capital theory, we derive several novel results. In particular, we show...
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Keywords:
Intergenerational Mobility;
Inequality;
Complementarities;
Human Capital;
Equality and Inequality;
Income;
Family and Family Relationships
Becker, Gary, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch. "A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility." Working Paper, August 2015.
- September 1989 (Revised August 1990)
- Case
Don Burr
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Traces the career development of People Express founder Don Burr. Shows how an individual's evolving set of needs and values influences career choices and how each successive working environment meets these needs or spurs the individual to move on. Concludes as Burr is...
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Zuboff, Shoshana. "Don Burr." Harvard Business School Case 490-014, September 1989. (Revised August 1990.)
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
outside opportunities in the labor market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52495 March 2017 Review of Industrial Organization Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM By: MacKay, Alexander J., and David A....
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
needed to ponder on how to revise the company's compensation system to better motivate its staff in a deregulated market and communicate all these changes to the unionized labor force. Purchase the case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
basis of a number of labor market clearinghouses around the world and have recently been implemented in school choice systems in Boston and New York City. In addition, the study of markets that have failed in ways that can be fixed with...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
2003). Blue-collar workers, in contrast, increasingly work outside the archetypal work gang and operate machinery or computers in isolation from others. As manual labor evolves to require more interaction with machines and less...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Entrepreneurship,” written with his wife Sari Pekkala Kerr, a labor economist at Wellesley College. The paper uses a unique new database to track immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity over the past few decades, revealing, for example, what...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
public sector who deliver health services effectively." But there's another takeaway for Ashraf, whose current research involves co-producing studies with urban planners in sub-Saharan Africa. "We show academics that you can actually generate good science while also...
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- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
States—about one in six private-sector jobs, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. While largely disregarded by VCs, the Great Lakes and Southeast regions lead the nation in manufacturing employment, according to the US Bureau of View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
follow. "Institutions that have not considered the customer's perspective in the VRU have similarly not considered it throughout the rest of call center," they note. And good customer focus does not come easily: "Institutions with greater customer-focus...
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- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
listed by a labor research organization, Burning Glass Technologies. “These findings collectively indicate that there is an association between increased digital investments after private equity investment.” Crunching the numbers from...
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- December 2011
- Article
Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In...
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Keywords:
Spending;
Private Sector;
Taxation;
Innovation and Invention;
Interest Rates;
Business and Government Relations;
Investment;
Employment;
Power and Influence
Cohen, Lauren, Joshua Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" Journal of Political Economy 119, no. 6 (December 2011): 1015–1060. (Click here for a response to Snyder and Welch, click here for the data, and click here for the code.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
the end I believe this accounting innovation played an important role in the ultimate financial success of the restructuring. Some critics have pointed to recent labor unrest at the airline as evidence that the restructuring failed, but...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The large variation in costs among...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case....
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Keywords:
Scaling;
Education Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Service Operations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Performance Efficiency;
Resource Allocation;
Change Management;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Human Capital;
Growth Management;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Design;
Social Enterprise;
Poverty;
United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City...
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Keywords:
Education;
Service Operations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Performance Efficiency;
Resource Allocation;
Change Management;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Human Capital;
Growth Management;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Design;
Social Enterprise;
Poverty;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that...
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Dina Gerdeman