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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Processing up to 8,000 orders per day, the robots help make Quiet Logistics a highly efficient firm and free its workers to complete additional value-added services such as handwritten thank-you notes. The company has also developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
costs by adopting three other strategies, although each would probably trigger a political battle: Cities could change their healthcare policies for retired workers by increasing deductibles and co-payments. They could also cut back on... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
are more flexible. You're only going to be enhancing all worker commitments. You're likely to be better at retaining talent, too. There's a nice example of what organizations can do from work by Maureen Scully and Deb Myerson. They... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management as an agent of shareholders and a servant to share price. Other stakeholders, such as workers and communities, no longer mattered. The rise of agency theory and its dissemination in business schools reflected, among other... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, spoke on the blurring of work/life boundaries faced by both genders, and explained that counteractive measures like flextime and job sharing are underutilized because workers fear being seen as... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms are willing to make early offers and workers are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto, “Every revolution needs a sound track.” The corridors of the Park City headquarters are uncarpeted concrete, an open... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
agricultural powerhouse competitive on an international scale. And it has the large, ambitious population needed to drive its development, both as workers and consumers. Akinyanju and Oduntan believe many of the issues constraining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
cars and maintaining the German reputation for quality automobiles. And since 2000 or so, German workers have in general been moderating their wage demands, allowing German firms to become more competitive vis-à-vis other European... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on political campaigns that promise a different approach to foreign and domestic policy. As formative as those experiences were in establishing her sense of justice and political engagement, however, the linchpin is probably a very well-timed sandwich. On a cold... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
production and "customization" of materials. The engineering or applied science-based culture of many German firms kept power and authority closer to the factory or subsidiaries. Craft production meant skilled workers also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
trainees how to assemble an aircraft wing—and has cut the time it takes them to do that task by 35%. At GE, factory workers have achieved a similar gain in efficiency by using voice commands in AR experiences to perform complex wiring. AR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
restrictions included the ability to get visas for highly talented foreign workers and graduate students. One of the great strengths of America is our phenomenal system of higher education; we have educated the world's engineers and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
has opened satellite offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai to serve a client roster of more than 40,000 employees from among its growing list of corporate clients. If We Had Only Known INDIA RISING: iTrust’s corporate office is in the booming Gurgaon... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
speaking with a worker at the BulkWhiz warehouse. Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Rashad: I am Amira Rashad. I am founder and CEO of BulkWhiz, an online bulk grocery platform based out of Dubai in the UAE and covering the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
on—started during economic downturns. When people are laid off from jobs, they need re-training. Employers need confidential data to remain protected despite large numbers of their workers being let go. All of these broad trends create... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
if any, would argue that the OSHA limits are truly protective of health. Even OSHA admits this. From its own website: “OSHA recognizes that many of its permissible exposure limits (PELs) are outdated and inadequate for ensuring protection of View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
California, graduating from Live Oak High School in 1993. Despite the dangerous, backbreaking nature of migrant life, Curiel values the work ethic he developed and the long periods of time spent with his family, naming his father — killed with four other migrant View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and... View Details