Executive Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
News

Exotic Travel

Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Hospitality; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

What’s next in energy? “Electric cars. Everyone knows they are coming, but the energy sector isn’t ready. There are two main questions: Is there going to be a market for gasoline in 25 years? And where are we going to get the electricity... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

25 Aug 2015
News

Sunset in the East?

mortgage or with very little debt. Unlike in the United States, banks are also less on the line in real estate. We should always keep in mind that the Chinese property market was stagnant or worse (nonexistent) for 30 years after the... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Real Estate; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2004
News

Getting Personal

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

provide micro-evidence consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Labor View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 25

outcome and the influence of the proponent) and the type of proposals are the main determinants of the implementation decision, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to affect the decision. We then examine the labor View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2011
News

China Boot Camp

organized by C.B. Sung (MBA ’50), a Chinese native who, upon graduation, found himself unable to go home after his country’s fall to Communist forces in 1949. With the gradual opening of China, Sung, a career executive at Motorola, made... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Feb 2018
News

How Grab is Giving Uber a Run for Its Money in Southeast Asia

Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

18 Feb 2014
News

Stick with Plan A

company she launched in 1993 to build wireless infrastructure in emerging market countries], in which he was also an investor, board member, and advisor. "Howard is perhaps the smartest, most humble, most inspiring, and most ethical... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues.... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Private Equity; Brazil; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Operation Management; General Management; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth and Development; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Transportation; Human Capital; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Brazil

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Purchase

01 Jun 2012
News

Good as Our Word

Agency (KBRA). When the firm lured away Moody’s executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, “I contacted him to say this might be a fantastic opportunity to write an exciting case about this topic.” Enter Jules Kroll, widely recognized as... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library

labor problem in a hypothetical shoe manufacturing plant of the same name: workers were routinely leaving the plant 45 minutes early, adversely affecting production while the plant was struggling to fill its orders. The one-page case... View Details

25 Aug 2015
News

Business for the Other Billions

Keywords: impact investing

25 Sep 2008
News

Been There, Seen That

the appropriate market structure for raising capital, but of the role of government and regulatory oversight in managing those structures.” And here is another panelist, HBS professor Joe Bower: “To what extent here at HBS are we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government; Management

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

brick-and-mortar shops: Shove your best deals to the back of the store. Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

22 Dec 2015
News

Cahill to Lead HBS External Relations

has assumed a new role as Strategic Advisor, External Relations. As executive director, Cahill is responsible for managing all aspects of the School’s alumni relations, development, and alumni marketing and... View Details

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

tackled the identity issue when he helped General Electric revamp its marketing department, a process described in the October 2010 Harvard Business Review article Unleashing the Power of Marketing, in which Gulati and two GE View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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