Labor Laws - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found Management Leadership for... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of time flying back and forth... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Mar 2009
News

Just Keep Our Money

© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to spending that boosts the... View Details

Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2010
News

Déjà Vu All Over Again

leading to the Panic of 1873; James Landis, an early champion of financial regulation; a run on New York’s 19th Ward Bank in the early 1900s; privately issued banknotes from the 1830s wreaked havoc with the nation’s money supply. Union Pacific Museum; Special... View Details

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

04 Nov 2016
News

Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?

Kurt Summers Jr. (MBA 2005) denies he has his sights set on anything beyond another term as Chicago city treasurer, a job he’s held since 2014, but in a long profile, Crain’s Chicago Business speculates about the 37-year-old South Side native’s ambitions. Several... View Details

08 Jan 2014
News

Samaras, Greece Assume Presidency of European Union

Keywords: European Union; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. Multinationals have rushed to take... View Details

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

November 2017
Supplement

Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (B)

By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull

Supplement to HBS No. 918-001. The case describes the inventive approaches to retail crime prevention that Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s Convenience Stores, implemented between 2007 and 2017. View Details

Keywords: Public Relations; Community Relations; Change Management; Leading Change; Training; Knowledge Dissemination; Working Conditions; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Legal Liability; Business and Community Relations; Retail Industry; Canada

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01 Jun 2010
News

Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform

PAULSON: “We were staving off economic Armageddon.” Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) is on a mission. As Treasury Secretary, the former Goldman Sachs CEO found himself in the distasteful position of championing massive taxpayer-funded bailouts for the nation’s leading financial... View Details

Keywords: federal bailouts; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

labor law and high levels of press freedom. We further demonstrate that suppliers perform better when they serve buyers located in countries where consumers are wealthy and socially conscious. Taken... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

Navy veteran Dan Goldenberg (MBA 2003) was a week into life as a HBS student when the 9/11 attacks occurred, compelling him to join the Reserves just months after having left active duty. That defining moment inspired him to help others successfully reenter the working... View Details

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

non-competes while in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School. "There's an open labor market," he continues. "People can leave when they want. They're not trapped at companies the way they are in Massachusetts. And that's what... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
Supplement

Charles Veillon, S.A. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Howard Reitz

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Rights; Organizations; Working Conditions; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Service Industry

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10 Jul 2020
News

Economy and Government from Harvard ManageMentor

10 Aug 2009
News

Helping 27 Million Entrepreneurs

Keywords: Karen Mills, MBA '77; Government

16 Oct 2014
News

Innovating for International Aid

It’s no secret HBS graduates are a hard-charging bunch who sometimes find it hard to take time off. Most eventually learn how to do this so they can recharge to do even harder charging—spending time at a beach, playing golf, climbing mountains, or the like. But Scott... View Details