Labor - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

The Future of Books

Above: photo by Brian Doben You’ve had a varied career in book publishing. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen in your 15 years in the industry? Milena Alberti: Like so many media categories, the biggest change for trade book publishing has been... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in 1998, is co-director of Patagonia... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

17 Nov 2016
News

Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus

(WSJ photo illustration) (WSJ photo illustration) The online fashion innovator Rent the Runway—brainchild of Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss (both MBA 2009)—is continuing to go brick-and-mortar. The Wall Street Journal details the new partnership between the... View Details

23 Mar 2010
News

Inside the World of Sir Martin Sorrell

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

January 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

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By: David F. Hawkins

2010 Healthcare Reform Act eliminates Medicare Part D subsidy and Caterpillar recognizes a $100 million change. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employment; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Change Management; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business or Company Management; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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Educators

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03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Our analysis also highlights how digital data can be used to better... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Britain has shamefully taken almost none, but the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, and others who settled in Britain under rules of the European Union that allow the free movement of labor inside the EU. Hundreds of thousands of Britons live... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, and new growth opportunities just out of their reach as... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

practices in the world’s largest economy. Since then, labor costs in China have risen to the point where a great deal of the original kind of manufacturing performed there has moved to lower-cost countries. Currency manipulation is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The recession saw an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

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

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

From resolving a labor dispute to orchestrating a merger to getting a new company off the ground, negotiation plays a vital role in nearly every facet of business. In response, Professor James Sebenius, founder of the HBS Negotiation Unit... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

cannot be a leader if you’re not aware.” One way that mass incarceration can impact big businesses, says Jack, is when prison labor is part of a company’s portfolio. In her role at Head of Equity Research at NorthStar Asset Management,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

research organizations that partnered with business groups and regulatory bodies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53310 The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

topsoil are free or cheap. A few years ago, a manager at a large IT company said something to me that I've never forgotten."For many years we've optimized our business as if capital and labor are what is expensive and we've gotten... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

breach that resulted in a 45-minute terminal closure during peak hours, a potential threat to traveler safety, and travel delays across the U.S. O'Reilly considers the impact of her decision on a shifting labor force: the growing divide... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

because it draws upon the power of the founding myths of the country (the myth of success, the frontier myth, the city on a hill) and reinterprets these myths in a way that provides meaning for men who work in large companies in an intensely competitive and not always... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

a “she-covery” will require support for women at every level of the labor force. “We really are at a turning point for the global economy,” Collenette adds. “Post-pandemic, either we fashion a world where women take their rightful place... View Details