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  • 13 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality

Keywords: by Zeynep Ton
  • April 2021
  • Case

Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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Gino, Francesca, and Frances X. Frei. "Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 921-703, April 2021.
  • 09 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

Zeynep Ton goes behind the scenes to discover how the Tulsa, Oklahoma—based chain of convenience stores manages to outperform its competitors while maintaining a loyal workforce of over 10,000 employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 08 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

unavoidable, research by HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton suggests that retailers should make labor decisions thoughtfully. "Many retailers see labor more as a cost driver... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 03 Jun 2011
  • News

Mercadona: Spanish aisles

  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

make a serious dent in climate change. “Realistically, the IPCC is saying that to avoid critical levels of global warming by 2050, we need to take 10 billion tons of CO2 per year out of the atmosphere,” he... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • News

How Mercadona Fixes Retail's 'Last 10 Yards' Problem

  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

competition effect whereby increasing rivalry shapes, and often decreases, incentives to expend effort and invest in innovation; and 2) a parallel search effect whereby adding greater numbers of "searchers" benefits innovation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
  • 17 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

framework for managers (and aspiring managers) to work in a more balanced, self-fulfilling way in this changing landscape, based on three core tenets. You’re more than your job This is the era of reinvention. Wallace warns against defining oneself View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices exhibited View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

by salesmen and companies like Singer Sewing Company to encourage workers to police one another. Rosenthal says the rise of the railroad is often credited with creating new units of production, including the cost per View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

about Whole Foods customers, really angry customers, regularly encountering empty shelves at their favorite retailer. Then stories surfaced about Whole Foods employees crying over their new performance-driven working conditions imposed by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • Profile

Fola Folowosele

as well as the extensive alumni network gave me the opportunity to learn about many industries second hand. I learned a ton through simply grabbing coffee with classmates, calling alumni to learn more about what they did, and going on... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products
  • 05 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Feedback

mills. The Why: Of the 110 million tons of food waste generated annually in the United States, 75 percent ends up in landfills or incinerators, making it a leading source of CO2 emissions (10 percent of greenhouse gasses can be attributed... View Details
Keywords: Illustration by Drue Wagner; Photo by ChiChi Ubiña
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