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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
these are grievances that demand redress," he emphasizes, "not deferential surrender to 'market forces.'" Seated at a conference table in his downtown office, the tall, soft-spoken Stewart explains, "Some people believe that if a segment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49804 Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China By: Iyer, Lakshmi, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Xiaoxue Zhao Abstract—This paper studies the policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education were projected to suffer from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
will also drive them to India because only India can compete with China on both labor costs and domestic-market potential. Foreign firms will demand access to India and force the country to open up. As India... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
Chinese manager balked, insisting there was no demand for the additional products. The U.S. management team tried to resolve the dispute through negotiations, and when the Chinese manager wouldn't budge, the team fired him—but he wouldn't... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
executive roles at Kemin since joining the company in early 2006. Most recently, as corporate vice president, she managed marketing, sales, IT, operations, and HR. She honed in on personal care in 2010, as consumer demand for natural... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
African-American clientele, have hundreds of products for blondes." In a labor market where youth seems to hold a premium, especially for marketing jobs, this notion is deadly for those trying to sell to an aging population of baby... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
uses. A slowdown in semiconductor demand post-2001 made it possible for the solar industry to take off by using excess polysilicon and silicon wafers. How to Win. In a downturn, getting to the breakeven point for a new venture and then to... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
government agency bonds.) From America’s point of view, meanwhile, the best way of keeping the good times rolling in recent years has been to import cheap Chinese goods. Moreover, by outsourcing manufacturing to China, U.S. corporations have been able to reap the... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
impact in the economy, and in line with previous findings by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo and David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Jae Song. Both shocks significantly reduced the demand for manufacturing workers in areas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped it panel pieces to be assembled... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
as this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur disutility from information disclosure. This, in turn, benefits the firm providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
thinking about this through the demand side: how employers think about it; how it’s viewed as a contributor to corporate, regional, and national competitiveness; and the active steps decision-makers should take to prepare themselves in... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
According to Martinez, "There is probably some research done on the inflationary impact of regularizing illegal residents in the U.S." Roberto J. M. Rodriguez asks, "What is the U.S. economic labor View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
As a business, HBS had a banner year in fiscal 2006. Demand for the School’s Executive Education programs was up, sales of cases and other print products grew, the MBA Program attained a 91 percent admissions yield, and total revenue... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
pace of technological change, the emergence of a gig economy, and shifting global and labor markets. As faculty co-chairs of the Managing the Future of Work project, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller are leading efforts to prepare leaders... View Details