Filter Results:
(2,525)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,525)
- People (2)
- News (930)
- Research (1,281)
- Events (25)
- Multimedia (80)
- Faculty Publications (545)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,525)
- People (2)
- News (930)
- Research (1,281)
- Events (25)
- Multimedia (80)
- Faculty Publications (545)
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
two store workers by an angry former employee at a Mississippi Walmart and a mass shooting around a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, the Company announced it would: No longer sell ammunition that could be used in military-style assault... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
assembly line, marketing, sales, and after-sales service channels) A management model (the hierarchy) A social or regulatory system (specialized work, pay-for-performance incentives, worker education, unions, antitrust laws) As we enter... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic development in China. Esquel is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
that technology has widened opportunities for America’s 1.3 million legally blind, working-age adults. Now blind workers produce a whole range of office supplies, manufacture aircraft parts, perform milling and grinding procedures, and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
NatureSweet’s year-round greenhouse production model, were employed full time—were empowered with training and productivity incentives, allowing them to earn well above the minimum wage and advance their careers within the company. Indeed, improving the lives of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
competition is so intense.” Detroit, by contrast, has hobbled itself, experts say, in two notable ways: Labor agreements, financially generous but tightly circumscribed regarding worker activity, have hindered innovative uses of the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
aeronautic plant, I demonstrate how an implicitly negotiated leniency between management and workers around the use of company materials and tools, on company time, to produce artifacts for personal use, enhances workers' identities. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden costs of outsourcing. The most obvious is the cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
team-based, seniority-based, and flatter compensation. We propose that compensation is strategic not only in motivating and attracting the worker being compensated, but also in its impact on peer workers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
companies in a variety of industries. Each worker kept a daily diary during the course of a project, answering open-ended questions such as, "Briefly describe one event from today that stands out in your mind." Each diary lasted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Holmes said. Data compiled by Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Pinterest in 2014 showed that the number of female workers at those companies was typically 30 percent or less of the staff and that the number of black and Hispanic employees was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
newsletters, syndicated columns, and eventually a radio program. In 1919 he founded Babson College, today a highly respected institution, to provide him with a pool of workers for his forecasting business. Others, like Irving Fisher, were... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
after the fall of Saddam Hussein. After the United Nations headquarters was bombed in Baghdad, most UN officials and nongovernmental organization (NGO) workers fled the country. That left the US military tasked to build schools and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618028 Harvard Business School Case 618-019 Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A) Managers make predictions all the time: How fast will my markets grow? How... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
service requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating that operational transparency led... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition and variety (i.e., working on different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
assignments. The first, an unskilled position such as a production line worker, sales clerk, or office clerk, familiarized students with supervision issues and customer-employee relations. "Our students find that they are better equipped to understand and deal with... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
and cool-headed they were, as was typical of men in other dangerous workplaces, platform workers readily acknowledged their physical limitations, publicly admitted their mistakes, and openly attended to their own and others' feelings.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne