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- 10 Dec 2019
- News
At Massport, New CEO is Ready for Change
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a Sam Adams. The founder and... View Details
- 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
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
between local and national leaders. Wide use of volunteer labor makes worker motivation more of an issue. Up to 60 percent of a nonprofit CEO's time is spent fundraising, time that could be spent building a more effective organization.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
motion, bringing Greeks back home to further strengthen the labor market and create new economic opportunities. “After 12 years of training in Greece, these talented individuals immigrate primarily to the United States or Europe, where... View Details
- May 2010
- Supplement
Clayton Industries, Inc.: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Benjamin H. Barlow
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; International Business; Subsidiaries; Project Management; Multinational Corporations; Implementing Strategy; Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Behavior; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Organizations; Labor Unions; Organizational Culture; Product Development
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
profit-shifting activities that are not value-creating and e) the consequent, negative impact of all of these distortions on the US labor force. While it is tempting to limit attention to the more sensational effects and characterize them... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future labor force."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
African-American clientele, have hundreds of products for blondes." In a labor market where youth seems to hold a premium, especially for marketing jobs, this notion is deadly for those trying to sell to an aging population of baby... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
For Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), the life of an activist was one she was born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about humanity was a central part of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
of the company. The good news is that this is a problem that can be fixed. In Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, I demonstrate how firms that develop a shared pro-social purpose—and that embed it throughout the firm in empowered, high-commitment View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
down in May. He teamed with prominent economists to study price data from June 2018—the month before the trade war began—to early 2019. Their work combines import and export prices at the US border, collected by the Bureau of Labor... View Details
- 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 labor relations, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
their historical roots and socioeconomic impacts. The report discusses how these disparities affect education, labor markets, and government policies, and suggests approaches for businesses to address these issues. CEO roadmap for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
governance, discussed in a presentation by HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu and associate professor Tarun Khanna. They suggested that the need to compete in global product and labor markets actually preceded capital-market concerns as a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do? "I got this nervous laughter," says Gulati, an expert on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- November 2015
- Case
Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work
By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith
Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search
Zhu, Feng, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti, and Aaron Smith. "Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 616-027, November 2015.
- August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Trouble with a Bubble
By: Tom Nicholas
Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in... View Details
Keywords: Bubble; Stock Market; Great Depression; Irving Fisher; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Financial Markets; Performance; Labor and Management Relations; Equity; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Trouble with a Bubble." Harvard Business School Case 808-067, August 2007. (Revised June 2020.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
A current exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center spotlights a fascinating period in the ongoing story of US–China trade relations. Drawing on wonderfully descriptive letters and diaries as well as hundreds of company documents and journals, “A Chronicle of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be going all-remote. It was a... View Details