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  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

It’s a manager’s nightmare: A customer pulls into a drive-thru after a long day at work with children in tow, everyone looking frazzled and famished. After waiting patiently in line, the customer grabs her bag of burgers through the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
  • 28 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

on how best to reward their workers in ways that will bring them greater job satisfaction and motivate them to work harder. When recruiting, emphasize benefits Talking up a job’s perks, such as flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

  Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

students graduating from US schools who need a work visa). What about refugees, who are becoming more common globally? Research finds that refugees assimilate at an even faster rate into the economy and the workplace than general migrants... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

FAQs - Alumni

considered final. At Reunions, refer to onsite resources for the current schedule and available offerings. Will transportation be provided? What are the parking options? Complimentary bus transportation runs between the Hotels and campus on Friday and Saturday. Some... View Details
  • Web

Insights & Advice Blog

flexible career that harmonizes professional fulfillment with family. Today, she blends teaching, leadership, and social impact while embracing what works best for her at each stage. [...] Four Ways to Make... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
  • 10 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw

Ultimately, I felt that I was enjoying the very technical work less and less as time went on and wanted to try a broader role. In 2019 I started as more of a generalist Electrical Engineer at Formlabs, helping build stereolithography 3D... View Details
  • March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement

Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Rights; Working Conditions; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Cambodia; United States
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  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global

project work for up to 10 days. For their project, the six HBS students assigned to work with BMCE Bank (now Bank of Africa) were asked to create a digital product to attract 18 to 24-year-olds to the bank’s... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

will be a mistake.” Adapted from Win from Within by James L. Heskett. Copyright (c) 2022 James Heskett. Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved. [Image: Unsplash/Jason Leung] Related reading from the View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

Soon after ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, business leaders began taking their first steps into generative artificial intelligence, approaching this powerful technology with a mix of awe and trepidation. It’s no surprise that one of the most-read articles in HBS View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

Industries (Diversified) “Being able to be flexible is good, because conditions in the marketplace change—continuously. You have to keep up with those conditions.” Download Transcript Saudi Arabia Adib AlZamil Chief Executive Officer,... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

  Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

findings imply that firm oversight is important during market booms, just when stock prices suggest all is well. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovMisFirms_v39.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2021 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

The 2012 Spanish Labor Reform: Lifting All Boats, or Leveling Down?

By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella, Santiago Botella and Elena Corsi
Since 1978, Spain had struggled to control unemployment. The country’s labor law was protective of employees hired long-term and companies used temporary contracts as buffers. In 2012, amid economic recession and a 23.6% unemployment rate, a center-right government of... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Labor Market; Unemployment; Recession; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; International Relations; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Contracts; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Spain; European Union
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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (C)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Toyota Argentina (TASA) and the union representing automotive industry workers in the country had been working together since 2011 to address the challenges faced by Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Zárate (Argentina). In 2019, after achieving all the goals set forward... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Alignment; Cooperation; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Goals and Objectives; Auto Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
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  • 06 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

The debate over which form of leadership works best seems settled, in my view. Most leading companies globally are focusing on developing "authentic leaders" within their ranks. Executive courses at Harvard Business School in... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George