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04 Jun 2020
News

Let's Talk Resilience

Keywords: COVID-19; financial crisis; leadership; human resources; entrepreneurship; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

25 Aug 2015
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Business for the Other Billions

Keywords: impact investing

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

of September as the start of my year (even before I joined the HBS faculty) because many of the commitments in my portfolio were anchored to the academic calendar. Whether it was community chamber orchestras or semi-professional choirs, my musical pursuits always... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

proposal and negotiating strategy seemed to signal a possibly corrupt deal among elites. This inadvertently triggered the involvement of the Honduran Congress, labor unions, political parties, potential business competitors, indigenous... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

higher skill levels than are currently available. More jobs are being defined as requiring a college degree because, yes, they are getting more complicated, but it’s also because employers have been relying on what we call the “spot market” for View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Decision Points

Bush: For future observers, a context for his administration. On the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Decision Points, and in his first newspaper interview since leaving the White House, a relaxed, introspective former President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) said,... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

manage and advance their careers in the less predictable world of contract labor. But how do you land those kinds of jobs? In "Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets," forthcoming in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

December 1984
Article

Unionization and Profitability: Evidence from the Capital Market

By: M. B. Zimmerman and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Labor Unions; Profit; Information; Markets; Finance

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March 2010 (Revised September 2010)
Case

TeamLease: Putting India to Work (Il) Legally

By: Tarun Khanna and Anjali Raina

This case focuses on the growth dilemmas facing Manish Sabharwal, co-founder, TeamLease Services Pvt. Ltd. TeamLease is a human resource outsourcing and temp staffing company located in India, which has grown rapidly from 2002 to 2009. Set in the context of the highly... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employment; Human Capital; Lawfulness; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Employment Industry; India

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01 Jun 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead

Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a copper brew house three times the size of its previous system. (Courtesy Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits) Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a copper brew house three times the size of its... View Details

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

the thousands of indicators already available. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates... View Details

19 Sep 2016
News

Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)

wouldn’t learn anything if they didn’t study. The professor’s words stuck. Murphy returned to his room and labored over the next case. He received the next opening cold call, and the professor stayed with him for the entire 80-minute... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that eliminates the penalty to saving; a... View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

01 Jun 2007
News

A Big Deal

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest Indian takeover of a foreign... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

of very large challenges, including that of how to grow a nearly half-trillion-dollar organization charged with everything from bribery in its Mexican operation to discrimination in its labor policies, and blamed for low wages and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of entrepreneurship are higher in... View Details