Filter Results:
(519)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(815)
- News (186)
- Research (519)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (263)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(815)
- News (186)
- Research (519)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (23)
- Faculty Publications (263)
Sort by
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51050 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—Volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
calls "sticky." "A lot of the thinking today on manufacturing is as wages change, manufacturing moves. And you'll get these very optimistic reports about the return of manufacturing to the United States from places like China and Taiwan,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relative to the base model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52788 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Technical Note
A Note on Compensation
By: Ethan Bernstein and Michael Norris
This note provides an overview of the important terms, concepts, and frameworks that a manager should know about compensation—whether it be their own or that of an employee. Because compensation in practice is fraught with pitfalls, this note presents an overview of... View Details
Keywords: Compensation Design; Benefits; Perks; Variable Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Profit Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Labor Unions; Wages; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Michael Norris. "A Note on Compensation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 419-020, August 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
to grow and prosper. Manufacturing sectors in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore face the pressing problem of lower wage competition from plants in China. Thus many of those regions' manufacturing firms are relocating their factories and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
medicine. They do not know if they received good value for the money. Partially as a result of this lack of transparency, increases in employers’ health care costs have outstripped inflation and workers’ wage increases for decades.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
together" “These psychological costs of moving are really important because, if you think about it, if you get career benefits and, in many cases, a wage increase from moving, what might be holding people back is their attachment to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
about $29,000, or about two years’ worth of the average young college graduate’s wage premium over a high school grad. A course of study and internships that lead to a college-level job usually will yield returns sufficient to prevent... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
and relatives in Greece lead better lives than they can afford. Their wages are high, their benefits even higher, and their taxes are low (because, he claims, they avoid paying them). Banks in other countries have to finance Greek... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
that the share of total household income from self-employment versus outside wages increased 16 percent. That is, these new businesses were successful enough to contribute significantly to household income. "The newly self-employed... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
to explore the mechanism behind the rise in income inequality. We find tax cuts lead to higher reported capital income and a decrease in wage and salary income. These effects are concentrated among top earners, and we find no effects for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
you go back into economic sociology studies and studies of wage gaps, you find that you can pull out those situations that are fairly unambiguous and say that there aren't gaps. But if you go into those situations and industries in which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
to better connections rather than superior skill. Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. Coupled with a growing race to the bottom in wages and benefits, this workplace erosion of trust could negatively affect... View Details