Labor Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

software. So when a family friend suggested that Marietta use talent from eastern Kentucky instead, he promptly set up a pilot office in Letcher County, just northeast of Harlan, and hired four recent high school graduates who had completed a media View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off

where is it from? By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect many other elements with effects that are difficult to predict. SR: For millennia, most trade was either in raw... View Details

17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation

ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make that happen, Skelly spends much... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

Top by Neil Giarratana (MBA ’65) (Career Press) Giarratana lays out a top executive’s priorities — the key areas that must be handled well — and explains in detail how to do it. He offers advice on such critical tasks as ending divisive office politics, fast-tracking... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate

NLK: What we are seeing in terms of green financing emerging in the world is really quite significant and it started with green bonds. Can we get the global insurance companies in the world and the banks to begin to look at investing in View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

people in real life and laughing with them. The virtual world is here to stay, but nothing replaces the beauty of communal physical spaces.” —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002) “I’ve learned that it’s doable and productive but doesn’t feel... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire

argues has set in rather silently since the 1970s. With Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave, Madrick, a wonderfully passionate contrarian, argues that we’ve been brainwashed to believe that more government and higher taxes translate to lower View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

her own life as well from the lives of the most incredible and inspiring women on Mogul. How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses by Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) McGraw-Hill Education Do you have an idea... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

process is the product,” Bohmer confirms. “It’s much more than a piece of paper.” Next, Kaplan and his team introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS), which transforms the hospital’s health-care delivery model. How those enormous... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

complete profile. As Yahoo! president, entrepreneur Sue Decker led the company’s global business operations, including sales, product, product marketing, and distribution. Since leaving Yahoo! in April 2009, she spent the past academic... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

respondents indicated their class or year or answered all questions. The survey concluded July 15, 1999. Most influential business leader Most significant consumer product Most significant innovation for business Most influential... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

original Hendersonianism: “In this new environment, the essence of strategy is not the structure of a company’s position in products and markets, but the dynamics of its behaviors. The goal is to identify and develop the hard-to-imitate... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

integrity and learning value of the research. What kind of help can faculty who come to the office expect? We seek to help translate faculty research interests into productive research in the Asia-Pacific region. We will identify... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in India, HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu detect signs that globalization in the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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