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  • 15 Jul 2012
  • News

Productivity Trick: Hide!

  • July–August 2019
  • Article

Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions

By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about whether organizational structures such as codes... View Details
Keywords: Organization Theory; Economic Sociology; Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Auditing; Process Improvement; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Labor; Working Conditions
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  • March 2022
  • Article

Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-based Models: A New Protocol

By: Emanuele Borgonovo, Marco Pangallo, Jan Rivkin, Leonardo Rizzo and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used in the management sciences. Though useful, ABMs are often critiqued: it is hard to discern why they produce the results they do and whether other assumptions would yield similar results. To help researchers address such... View Details
Keywords: Agent-based Modeling; Sensitivity Analysis; Design Of Experiments; Total Order Sensitivity Indices; Organizations; Behavior; Decision Making; Mathematical Methods
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  • August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
  • Supplement

Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)

By: Willy Shih

This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Exploration; Dominant Design; Business Growth and Maturation; Business History; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Design; Product Development; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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  • 22 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

nuances of its limits. Since ChatGPT debuted a year ago, automation hopes and fears—previously limited to factory floors and supermarket checkout lines—have shaken the ranks of highly-educated knowledge workers and provided new avenues... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the... View Details
Keywords: Assortative Matching; Productivity; Global Buyers; Readymade Garments; Management; Employees; Performance Productivity
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  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

factory in Korea where the workers did a company cheer and calisthenics together every morning. "My feeling is that just because we work so hard, we don't have to go around with long faces all the time," Walton is quoted as saying on a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Research Summary

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By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
  • June 2021
  • Case

One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?

By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais
This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Decision Making; Accounting
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Hiring Organizations

Environmental Defense Fund Epiq Erewhon Estee Lauder Companies, The Eventide Asset Management Evercore EverMetal Exowatt Expedia Group ExxonMobil EY-Parthenon F F-Prime Capital Factorial Energy Fairo Fairstead Fanatics Feltin Community... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

Rockman, Sven Beckert, and David Waldstreicher. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming Abstract The traditional story of modern management begins in the factories of England and New England, extending only much later to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Americans with Disabilities Act Welfare reform Antitrust action initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 19 Ford doubles View Details

    Empire of Cotton

    The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
     
    Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the... View Details
    • 1982
    • Article

    When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

    By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat
    Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments
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    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

    story. How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’KKR turned around a struggling door company and sold it for 10 times its investment—giving factory workers a... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 2009
    • Chapter

    Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification

    By: Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz and Michael W. Toffel
    SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of conduct, represents a new form of private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Working Conditions; Standards; Performance Evaluation
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    • 02 Apr 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

    can’t control absenteeism, and you don’t know when you will receive an order for a very important buyer,” he says. “So how do you execute your strategy?” While studying a factory in India, Tamayo found one efficient way businesses can... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
    • 16 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Private Equity and Employment

    Keywords: by Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner & Javier Miranda
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    Hills was running out of money and may not make it through the lean winter months, Smith and Cuscuna were surprised. Sales had been brisk. “They built a giant factory costing almost $7 million that required sales that were beyond their... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 08 Dec 2022
    • HBS Case

    The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

    darling under Schneider’s tenure, with about $95 billion in 2021 revenue. Nestlé had six factories in Russia, and sales there accounted for roughly 2 percent of the company’s 2021 revenue. It employed 7,000 people in Russia and 5,800 in... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products