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29 Sep 2020
News

Companies Used to Share How Each Dollar of Revenue Was Spent

01 Dec 2012
News

Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS

university community," Dr. Chao, an industrialist, said of his late wife, a scholar in Asian history and literature. "I would like to dedicate this contribution to memorialize and honor my beloved wife and soul mate." The Honorable Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979), US... View Details

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

entrepreneurship in China? A: Our interviews in Beijing and Shanghai emphasized that China is not for everybody. Even though the country generates a lot of excitement, offers a huge consumer market, and retains a lower-cost but very well-educated View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

07 Dec 2010
News

Innovations from Emerging Markets

Keywords: Professor Tarun Khanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

August 2009 (Revised June 2011)
Case

Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc. 2006

By: Krishna G. Palepu

This case centers around a dispute between the owners and the players regarding the profitability of professional baseball teams in connection with the negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. The case describes the financial statements of the baseball... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Profit; Labor Unions; Measurement and Metrics; Agreements and Arrangements; Performance; Sports Industry; United States

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07 Apr 2015
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India's Private Equity Industry Shakes Off Its Doldrums

Keywords: private equity; India; economic trends; developing economies; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Apr 1999
News

Short Takes

recent development for multinationals, notes Spar, who is an authority on business-government relations and foreign direct investment. The traditional corporate reaction toward distant countries' and subcontractors' labor violations has,... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

July 2019
Teaching Note

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg

A Teaching Note for the "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow" case study (HBS#820-017). The case describes how AT&T designed and implemented a program to retrain 100,000 of its workers. The case first reviews the technological forces that compelled AT&T to... View Details

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11 Feb 2015
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Dedicated to a public service mission

Wrendon Hunt (MBA 2012) was raised to be an upstander. “My father always talked about serving causes greater than ourselves,” says Hunt, who is a 2014–2015 White House Fellow. He describes his yearlong appointment at the Department of View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

UNC's “Accidental” Dean

figured that his impressive business credentials and international perspective would serve the school well. “They were as open to a practitioner for the role as they were for an academic,” Jones told the Herald-Sun. Thrilled to be back home, Jones aims to lead the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Molly Jacobson

everyday laborers whose jobs are physical, taxing, and monotonous. All workers — whether they report to a field or an office — deserve to be rewarded with a living wage, generous benefits, and the prospect of future advancement. I want to... View Details

2021
Working Paper

Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases

By: Katie Panella and George Serafeim

Applying the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative’s employment impact methodology on eight leading companies, we document wide variability in employment impacts as a percentage of salaries paid, ranging between 59 and 80 percent. We identify opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Impact Measurement; Employee Compensation; Accounting; Employees; Labor; Well-being; Diversity; Wages; Compensation and Benefits

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01 Dec 2014
News

Living Social

Business and business leaders are now being called upon to solve more social problems, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010). Segneri, who worked on public- and social-sector innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies, was recently named director of the School’s Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2001
News

On the Inside

Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

challenges when starting a company after a layoff.” Here are three risks to weigh carefully and one actionable step if you decide to proceed: 1. High risk of lowering the bar Research provides compelling evidence that worsening labor... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

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

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters

When the phenomenon of cord-cutting— dropping a cable subscription in favor of one or more online streaming services—started attracting media attention a couple of years ago, the TV industry didn’t respond quickly. Cord-cutters were a very small piece of the TV... View Details

Keywords: Laura Martin (MBA 1983) , entertainment and internet analyst, Needham & Company

01 Jun 2006
News

Faculty Books

Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2021
Article

On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks

By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito

We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate... View Details