Labor Market Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
News

Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research

fundraising for the expedition’s nonprofit charity. The team is making plans for a marketing and media blitz to raise awareness of their efforts before the first climb in late December. If all goes as planned, the climbers will conquer... View Details

Keywords: pediatric cancer research; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

affiliates may follow the instruction on the linked page to register for an individual account to FT.com. Tip: may search for all results on the topic of Moral Money, or browse the Moral Money section under Markets NYT Climate Forward A... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Kelp Is on the Way

product. We’ve got some fantastic clinical results to back it up and all the reasons why seaweed is good for the skin—but we’re not a beauty company,” Perkins says. “For us, beauty is the thin end of the wedge. It’s a high-value market to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Melinda Beck; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Oct 1998
News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

promoting management education in Germany. He was instrumental in founding the University of Koblenz/Vallendar for Executive Management - the first such private institution in Germany - and coauthored various business texts, including... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Peru? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

fast growth. "This is not an indictment of them," Christensen emphasized. "This is an absolutely normal progression of economic institutions as they become successful." In his remarks, Christensen shared his views on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

Profile

Kathleen Hebert

dealerships throughout Canada." As an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario, Kathleen "focused on marketing while developing my understanding of business fundamentals." She spent one summer as a View Details

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

More frequent quotas can motivate underperforming sales reps. StockPhoto Personal selling is a key ingredient in making the American economy go. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 10 percent of the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

July 2021
Article

Consumers—Especially Women—Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher Gender Pay Gaps

By: Tobias Schlager, Bhavya Mohan, Katherine DeCelles and Michael I. Norton

We document a unique driver of consumer behavior: the public disclosure of a firm’s gender pay gap. Four experiments provide causal evidence that when firms are revealed to have gender pay gaps, consumers are less willing to pay for their goods, a reaction driven by... View Details

Keywords: Pay Gap; Perceived Wage Fairness; Purchase Intention; Gender; Wages; Fairness; Perception; Consumer Behavior

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August 2009 (Revised March 2011)
Case

Shenzhen Development Bank

By: Li Jin, Yuhai Xuan and Xiaobing Bai

Weijian Shan, Managing Partner of Newbridge Capital, faces a tough call in regard to his firm's investment in Shenzhen Development Bank, China's fifteenth-largest commercial bank listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Due to the aggressive lobby of the existing... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Commercial Banking; Investment; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; China

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Educators

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May 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Case

Prudential Securities

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Amanda Cowen

Prudential Insurance Co. attempted to diversify into financial services by building an investment banking franchise. Prudential's initial foray into the industry was its acquisition of The Bache Group in 1982. In 2000, the company decided to exit investment banking.... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry

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Educators

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01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2008
News

On Track

HATCHETT: Calm amid market turmoil. Perhaps it’s fitting that in this Olympic year, Morgan Stanley’s Kimberley Hatchett (MBA ’91) was named one of the “Top 100 Women Financial Advisers” by Barron’s (June 9, 2008). Of that group, Hatchett... View Details

Keywords: Finance

26 Jun 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

Keywords: by Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing; Financial Services; Banking

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts Authors:Marco Piovesan, Antonio... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2014
News

Ready for Takeoff

that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

05 Apr 2016
News

A Business Plan with Spice

saffron fields of Afghanistan as cofounders of Rumi Spice, a company which imports one of the world’s most expensive foodstuffs and markets it to top chefs. “Connecting Afghan farmers to the international marketplace is something that's... View Details

Rick Grinnell

(acquired by Western Digital). He also has deep operating experience having held senior marketing and engineering roles at Adero (acquired by Inktomi), ClearOne Communications (acquired by Gentner Communications, later renamed as... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

October 2023
Case

JPMorgan Chase in Paris

By: Joseph L. Bower, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Michael Norris

In 2019, Daniel Pinto, President and COO of JPMorgan Chase, has to make a recommendation to the bank’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, about where to physically locate the bank’s European trading operations after Brexit takes effect in 2020. The decision-making process... View Details