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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
David McKnight's comments reflected a similar need to take into account Chinese officials' views: "A far smarter approach is to evaluate the ethical impacts of Chinese law on a company's business model, and determine how to meet both... View Details
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Policy For Participants in Certificate Programs, CORe, CDIS, and CLIMB (individually enrolled, independent of an employer or educational sponsorship) Full payment is required to complete enrollment. If a participant has multiple failed... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Harvard University Press, 1967. Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises , 5th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Landis, James M. “Legislative History of the Securities Act of 1933,” George Washington View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
Several years ago, on his first day of work at a Boston-based speech-recognition software company, Matt Marx's new employer surprised him with a non-compete agreement. The terms stated that if Marx left the company, he couldn't work... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2015
- Technical Note
The On-Demand Economy
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, James Weber and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode of competition, a model that threatens to disrupt traditional firms. Uber provides... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Reform; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Labor; Employment; Working Conditions; Human Capital; Rights; Organizational Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Service Industry
Montgomery, Cynthia A., James Weber, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. "The On-Demand Economy." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-405, September 2015.
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
employer that presents itself as valuing diversity, minority job applicants engage in relatively little résumé whitening and thus submit more racially transparent résumés. Yet our audit study of how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
studies. In 2016, 15 McDonald’s employees filed complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that they had been sexually harassed. And then the #MeToo movement emerged in 2017, raising awareness of sexual... View Details
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
Gender and Free Speech at Google (A), (B), & (C)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-085, 319-095, and 319-097. View Details
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
hero-like efforts. Launched in 2007, Care.com is an online web portal for connecting families, caregivers and employers for child care, senior care, housekeeping, pet care and more. Today, more than 14.1 million members in 16 countries... View Details
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
to our work directly impacts how the world is able to engage with it. A significant amount of our time is spent at work. We seek out roles within organizations that speak to our inclinations and skills. We curate questions for our prospective View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
Kaplan says. Working with Kaplan were Phillip Tseng, Duke University School of Medicine; Barak D. Richman, Duke Law School and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Mahek A. Shah, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS;... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government policy. It is especially attractive at times of low growth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation
operation when Gibbons arrived. He has since led the agency through unprecedented growth to $296 million in sales in FY2000. “I push the organization in a lot of ways it hasn’t been pushed before,” says Gibbons, who also led the effort to launch NIB’s e-commerce site,... View Details