Internal Labor Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

that already have a large stable of high-performing individuals might have built a competitive advantage. We continue to extend our research into other labor markets in order to understand conditions that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2020
News

Wide Angle

the planet if you’re not jumping on that plane. But the friendships we’ve formed and the lives that many people have led that reach across boundaries, the lives of families that cross international boundaries—that’s the sad part that I... View Details

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

seeing its real importance. It didn't help that economists also thought that selling was unimportant in influencing markets and that door-to-door selling declined in the United States in the final decades of the 20th century. But scholars... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

positions for The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental nonprofit, and was also the Director of International Operations at City Year, a youth service organization. Outside HBS, Philippe is a consultant and a coach. He... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

April 2004 (Revised September 2005)
Case

China and the WTO: Doing the Right Thing?

In late 2001, the People's Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). Sets the terms of China's accession agreement against its compliance record some two years later. Discusses why key actors, such as business, organized labor, and other governments,... View Details

Keywords: Management; History; International Relations; Judgments; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; Governance Compliance; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; China

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01 Jun 2025
News

Assets: Matchup

Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get... View Details

Keywords: collectibles; faculty; China; Chinese leaders

Article

Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Employment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry

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01 Sep 2008
News

An American Story

helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I would tighten them up a bit,” she remembers. In a tough job... View Details

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

01 Jun 2014
News

A Look at Olook

André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood in south São Paulo. "Her name... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; fashion; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

determine whether the practice results in "collusion and monopoly?" In fact, does platform leadership have to be confined to those firms developing technology? Can it just as well be established by marketers who serve as traffic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2012
News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

Mikitani announced the changeover, in English, in March 2010 and set a two-year deadline for everyone to demonstrate English proficiency or sacrifice chances for advancement. He dubbed the project “Englishnization,” which has attracted View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 1999
News

New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance

topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

What Industrial Policy?

manufacturing in this country might look a lot more attractive.) By subsidizing other industries so generously, we have tilted the scales away from manufacturing. Thus, its decline is not completely a result of “natural” market forces.... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

markets where American football has no grassroots presence. Ongoing concerns include players' use of performance-enhancing drugs and off-field misbehavior and the PR and internal challenges they pose. And... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

emissions can have a positive return on investment but hurt earnings and cash flow in the short term. Some commitments may actually result in a wealth transfer from shareholders to another stakeholder group, such as paying a "living wage" that is above View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

remain low. The meager job creation that has occurred in the last two decades has been overwhelmingly in local industries, not those facing international competition. Labor force participation in America... View Details

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

increased focus on the external labor market is not a trend that is reversing easily," O'Mahony remarks. "There's been a fundamental change in the compact between the employer and employee that is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

identify characteristics of stocks that an investor who is worried about bad times should buy— a “rainy day” portfolio. Diversity in Innovation Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang discuss a systematic and persistent lack of female, Hispanic, and African American View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

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

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