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- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
educated and valuable talent in a competitive labor market. The loss of women managers—and potential future leaders—has been particularly vexing for executives. Many of them cling to the belief that women’s struggle to balance their home... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 2020
- Book
Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]
By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda
Authored at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this book is the result of an international collaboration between twelve female academics who apply their expertise to offer a blueprint for a more resilient, dignified, and sustainable society. The extension of... View Details
Ferreras, Isabelle, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda, eds. Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2020, French ed. (English edition is forthcoming in 2022 by University of Chicago Press.)
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable investing Almost 33... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
then scale economies have the potential to be an obvious global advantage. Down To Cases The book's case examples and detailed decision-making maps offer a practical guide to some of the complex issues that emerge from doing business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- July 1991 (Revised December 2018)
- Compilation
Slavery
By: Thomas K. McCraw
Explores the general history of slavery in the United States. Through detailed exhibits and a text consisting of excerpts from six first-hand observations of slavery, this note is designed to present the ethics, economics (especially the perverse incentive systems),... View Details
Keywords: Slavery; Human Capital; History; Ethics; Social Issues; Motivation and Incentives; United States
McCraw, Thomas K. "Slavery." Harvard Business School Compilation 792-001, July 1991. (Revised December 2018.)
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
markets. They have shown that the second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a deeper globalization than ever seen previously using that criterion. By 1914 world capital, commodity and labor markets were closely integrated, and more... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
statistical and survey measures. Those measures include not only hard statistics but also indicators from anonymous surveys of executives, on issues such as the level of corruption in the country, the quality of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Sawiris Foundation: Elevating Education in Egypt
By: Brian Trelstad and Alpana Thapar
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-023. Founded in 2001 by the Sawiris family, one of the wealthiest families in Egypt, the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD) invested in human capital and provision of basic social services for the most marginalized... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
that globalization in the product and labor markets can, in some cases, cause corporate governance to draw closer to international standards as well. Khanna and Palepu stress, however, that their research also indicates that there is a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
terrorist is moot.” Several addressed the more specific issue of Apple’s dispute with the FBI. The question of what a government can demand in a democracy roughly split respondents down the middle. Taking Apple’s side, ZBV said: “The... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
are experts at diagnosing and solving a variety of issues for their clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally.” To regain equilibrium, over the past two years, some major consulting firms have... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
their own reputations. At the same time, by helping shine a light in these areas, Toffel says he hopes this research might help overseas labor conditions improve, either by rewarding the factories that treat workers better, or by helping... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
very little. The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love (1,591) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6671.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf Published: April 13, 2011 Paper Released: March 2011 Companies increasingly involve customers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
revenue composition than budget mismanagement, as some observers have argued, says Green. “The fact that there were cuts along this dimension, I think, shows you that this is not just an issue of states being irresponsible,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that legal foundations exist for directors to indeed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne