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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
make the wrong moves. I have had my share of those. Over the past nine years at my company, we’ve developed a constructive, respectful, and strike-free relationship with our labor partners, which has helped the firm’s development. On the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
resources and risk within a parent company generally outweigh the possible inefficiencies created through administrative overhead or being sheltered from competition. Among the many other HBS faculty conducting international research, two... View Details
- 25 May 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace
- November 2004
- Teaching Note
Spain: Straddling the Atlantic (TN)
By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Teaching Note to (9-705-006). View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Two Sides of the General Re: your June article about General Doriot: As a confused 23-year-old head of a very unsuccessful used-car business who needed help trying to decide between HBS and Cornell Labor School, I was introduced to the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
sides will benefit from the control in costs, reduction of Medicare’s costs, and revitalization of the insurance market that this proposal will create. Our proposal charts a bipartisan path. It bolsters the Democratic mandate for... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
measure. Flexibility attracts talent For Oberholzer-Gee, the Prop 22 results showed that voters, like DoorDash drivers, saw flexibility as the most important element of gig work. As regulations are debated from state to state, he says, “it’s hard to know how large the... View Details
- Fast Answer
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
What GIS resources are available to Harvard affiliates? Harvard provides access to several tools that allow you to map data: SimplyAnalytics: web-based mapping tool that incorporates market research data from Experian... View Details
- Career Coach
Doug Lester
expertise in helping the people he coaches craft a work-life narrative that is relevant and compelling to networks, future colleagues and key decision-makers. He coaches students and alumni with a wide variety of interests, with an emphasis on View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
do you think? How do you feel?” We can also use it to conduct inexpensive and quick market research. And social media applications offer a treasure trove of information about consumer behavior. What other benefits come from using social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
So if fewer and fewer people are buying insurance policies, what are insurers going to do with their business? They should look at this as a changing market and realize that if they get in now, they could have a commanding mindshare of... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
of money that’s been saved to taxpayers because of people like Elon Musk being involved is actually staggering. And so I think it’s a good thing. HBS alumnus: Very exciting. I wanted to follow up on the market side of things. It’s a very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Organization Tax Aversion in Labor Supply By: Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
J. Chadbourn Bolles
created an impressive record of market value growth and appreciation. His foresight in targeting the international market enabled Chadbourn to continue to post sales increases... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
unfreezing a labor market that saw jobs going unfilled even as people were looking for work? Has it created a pool of “new” talent—that is, prospective employees with work experience seeking new career... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna