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- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
between companies and their communities, but also put pressure on the middle class, which were suddenly in competition for jobs with skilled workers around the globe. "And how did our society respond to pressures on the middle... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
workers in Texas – and this was a great opening for practical guidelines for how to use ChatGPT responsibly. What I like about this session was the sense – along with many other resources – of having enormous support, not just in building... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group, one of America's largest mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker, reflects the dual role of workforce participation and output per View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Golden Antelope Press This collection of 21 stories is organized into five sections, each with stories loosely focused on a particular place, time, and set of characters. The Blue Heron Lake stories follow a community of Latino workers... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
future promotion. The findings indicate that adverse selection concerns on the extensive margin of retaining workers drive the empirical regularity that firms rarely reduce compensation. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was designed to move decision making as close to the product as possible by delegating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
leaders, the authors found that introverts can be better in unpredictable, changing environments where workers are proactive about sharing their ideas. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/the-hidden-advantages-of-quiet-bosses/ar/1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
transactions are made far in advance are markets in which it is acceptable for firms to make exploding offers, and unacceptable for workers to renege on commitments they make, however early. But this evidence is only suggestive, because... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
entrepreneurial ventures. For example, he figured out quickly that he could make more money selling ice cream to construction workers if he offered whole containers, not just individual bars. He started earning money at a young age. BW:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged and happy? The Great... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
workers with increased skilled immigrant employment by firm. Employment expansion is greater for younger natives than their older counterparts, and departure rates for older workers appear higher for those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
penalty to the LGBTQ community, to becoming a non-English speaking 1 -year-old construction worker in the suburbs of Seattle. From being in the 2% female population in my master’s program to being one of three female plant managers (out... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
employed more than 10 million American workers and generated $1.8 trillion in revenue in 2003, concluded a study by Global Insight, a leading economic and forecasting firm. HBS professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, in their 2001 book,... View Details