Labor Market Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

presumably based on its distinctive competence, rather than consciously serving the customer. Levitt thus argued that when companies fail, "it usually means that the product fails to adapt to the constantly changing patterns of consumer needs and tastes, to new... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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06 May 2015
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Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1997
News

A Better Way to Go on Strike

W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to... View Details

Keywords: David Lax and Professor James K. Sebenius

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

What GIS resources are available to Harvard affiliates? Harvard provides access to several tools that allow you to map data: SimplyAnalytics: web-based mapping tool that incorporates market research data from Experian... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Investment Strategies Course Number 1425 Senior Lecturer William Vrattos Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Exam Career Focus Global capital markets are vast and dynamic, with over $100 trillion in listed public... View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Bloomberg: company information

for dividend/split history. EE for earnings estimates. ERN for earnings. FA for financial analysis. HDS for institutional and insider holdings. HG for historical price graph. HP for historical price table. MGMT for management profiles.... View Details

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

leveraged buyout firm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to analyze the importance of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships and provide evidence for leveraged buyout firms' favorable leverage terms. Institutional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Departments | Employment

work and collaborate with customers to ensure we meet their information needs in the dynamic climate of the information industry, knowledge-creating institutions such as Higher Education, and the changing global economy. More about... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni Are Integral to HBS

Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know... View Details

1998
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Concentration and Internationalisation in Banks after the Second World War

By: G. Jones

Keywords: History; Supply and Industry; Globalized Markets and Industries; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador - Blog: RGE Report

Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? 08 Mar 2025 Professor Claudia Goldin on "Why Women Won" 08 Mar 2025 Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom 08 Mar... View Details

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

Miller and colleague V.G. Narayanan have made this case to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and wrote "Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses," which appeared in the July 2005 issue of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

sciences); family background (e.g. birth order and where the executive grew up); career (including years of labor market experience and number of days unemployed); and current family status (e.g. marital... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

to preserve more than 20,000 jobs during the pandemic. The plan garnered more than $800 million in support from the IMF, the World Bank, and development finance institutions such as the African Development, the Islamic Development Bank,... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

"Farmers would probably have a price of water that would be significantly higher than it is right now so they probably would not plant thirsty crops," remarked one student. "The market would sort out the farmers and the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full-time. The effects on labor market outcomes are non-significant for men.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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