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- 27 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus
- 04 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
With executive compensation soaring to unprecedented levels in recent years, the prickly issue of CEO pay has received increasing media and government attention. Now, with the perfect storm of a failing economy, government bailouts, and high unemployment, the topic has... View Details
- 2001
- Chapter
Human Capital and Corporate Governance
By: Eric J. Van den Steen and John Roberts
Van den Steen, Eric J., and John Roberts. "Human Capital and Corporate Governance." In Corporate Governance: Essays in Honor of Horst Albach, edited by Horst Albach and Joachim Schwalbach, 128–144. Publications of the Society for Economics and Management at Humboldt University Berlin. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- April 2008
- Journal Article
Heart of Darkness: Business Tokens of the Congo (Part 1)
By: Louis T. Wells
Few numismatic fields are as unexplored as the tokens of what was once the Belgian Congo. Although the head (and “extra-wife”) tokens have been thoroughly cataloged, I have found only one very early and incomplete attempt, by Mahieu in the 1920s, to report other tokens... View Details
- 2001
- Chapter
Employment Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
By: Sumantra Ghoshal, Peter Moran and Christopher A. Bartlett
Ghoshal, Sumantra, Peter Moran, and Christopher A. Bartlett. "Employment Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Chap. 4 in Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work, edited by Jordi Gual and Joan E. Ricart, 79–110. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How today’s visa restrictions might impact tomorrow’s America
- May 2018
- Supplement
Abe on Womenomics, part 3: International Efforts & Conclusions: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015
By: Boris Groysberg
This video supplement is a lightly edited excerpt of a 2015 speech by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in which he describes Womenomics--policies and aspirations to promote greater economic participation by Japan's women, thereby promoting economic growth, greater... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Employment; Growth and Development; Working Conditions; Japan
Groysberg, Boris. "Abe on Womenomics, part 3: International Efforts & Conclusions: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-721, May 2018.
- 06 Oct 2014
- News
Why Tesco's Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough
- Mar 2012
- Report
Enriching the Ecosystem
To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these institutions--such as universities, venture creators, labor markets, and... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
world’s largest faith-based micro-finance organization, before starting Edify. To date, Edify has served 3,000 children in countries such as Rwanda, Peru, Ghana, Liberia, and the Dominican Republic. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
leads the Athens-based multinational producer of cement and other building materials. He ticks through a long list of issues that have made Greece unfriendly to business, from thickets of overregulation and archaic labor laws to the lack... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those arguing for some kind of intervention in this market activity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
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Pan-American Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
representing business — including agriculture, logging, mining, petroleum, communications, banking, and manufacturing — in their respective countries. Researchers will find views of field laborers splitting cacao pods, scenes of busy... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52623 Digital... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2024
- Contribution
Work
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Julie L. Rose
This chapter has two aims. First, in light of the continued dominance of market capitalism, one aim of the chapter is to examine contemporary approaches to traditional concerns about the impact of market capitalism on the manner in which work is carried out. By the... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Julie L. Rose. "Work." Contribution to Chap. 69 Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. Second Edition edited by Gerald F. Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, and Ryan Muldoon, 786–797. London: Routledge, 2025.