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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
"Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of shareholder protection," said David Hirschmann, president and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
“It’s a match made in heaven!” One hears this said at weddings, at the end of mergers, at the hiring of CEOs, and, of course, at the hiring of coaches in the National Football League. Human history is rife with examples of a union of two... View Details
- January 2025
- Teaching Plan
Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 625-003. New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
incorrect information and the fact that private-equity firms basically have not dealt with the press. Because private-equity firms have not discussed the good things that they accomplish, the labor unions... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
difference to the entire region. You can see the prosperity returning to the villages.” The impacts of this prosperity have been significant. A local credit union has replaced an abusive loan-shark system; farmers (mostly women) have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
one of America's best-managed companies. By the 1990s, GE's Appliance and Lighting businesses required careful attention to costs given mature industries and highly unionized labor forces. Its Aircraft... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
they “enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings but were deeply mistrustful of exotic foods.” He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Kristle Romero-Cortes Abstract—The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
woes of the 1980s) has been ascribed to some or all of the following: excessive corporate bureaucracy, arrogance, and insularity; union obstinacy; exorbitant healthcare costs and retirement packages; bloated product lines and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the population hard; for many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
dominant culture becomes, the more our perspective is limited.” As for business, Navasky thinks it too has a conventional wisdom that holds, for example, that all taxes, regulation, and labor unions are... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
helped Bangladesh become the world's second largest clothing exporter. Rana Plaza was not the first tragedy to occur in Bangladesh's garment industry, and without intervention, more might follow. International brand owners, domestic and foreign governments, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
cannot be a leader if you’re not aware.” One way that mass incarceration can impact big businesses, says Jack, is when prison labor is part of a company’s portfolio. In her role at Head of Equity Research at NorthStar Asset Management,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
haven’t squeezed out cost yet,” agrees Celia Wcislo, a 1987 graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program and the assistant division director of the 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has... View Details