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- April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
Peoplepower, Inc.: The Republic of the Philippines
By: Noel Maurer
In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for Philippine nurses and other professionals. The same trade agreement, however, means opening the country's... View Details
Keywords: Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Human Capital; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Japan; Philippines
Maurer, Noel. "Peoplepower, Inc.: The Republic of the Philippines." Harvard Business School Case 706-052, April 2006. (Revised June 2008.)
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and quality levels were far below those View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- Article
Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries
By: Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider
When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or valuations and therefore prices). We theorize that strong or even... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Organizations; Performance Expectations; Price; Competency and Skills; Quality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Selection and Staffing; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
Roberts, Peter W., Mukti Khaire, and Christopher I. Rider. "Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101, no. 3 (May 2011): 147–151.
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
beneficiaries, even if the beneficiaries themselves might (had they been asked) have preferred more socially responsible investments. This quandary led one pension fund manager to respond to my question of whether she would invest in a... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
problem, and speak with users to understand the challenges from a more human point of view. I collaborated with designers and software engineers to develop solutions, which I then presented to the CEO, Head... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Leadership and Organizational Behavior. The key developments include the original teaching of scientific management by Frederick W. Taylor; the change in perspective from Taylorism to the Human Relations... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
existing. Likewise, through its Executive Education Program and HBS Online, the School is educating business leaders about the latest technologies and how to capitalize on these new capabilities. The course she took, says Hopkins, covered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104. View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets and the larger... View Details
- May 2025
- Background Note
Skills-First Talent Management: The Importance of Managers
By: Boris Groysberg, Nicole Zelazko, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams, Izzy Yeoh and Colleen Ammerman
This note supplements a 2025 series on skills-first talent management in organizations, comprising “Skills-First Talent Management: Hiring” (HBS No. 425-019), “Skills-First Talent Management: Onboarding, Development, and Performance Management” (HBS No. 425-020), and... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
others. Result: Carnegie Steel became the low cost, high quality producer of a commodity vital to the creation of the modern world. Carnegie sold his company to J.P. Morgan,... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- Research Summary
Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation
Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.
We study a model of featuring two economies with adverse selection of and moral hazard by bankers. We demonstrate... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
Azita Sharif (MBA 2000) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DSI- Precision Medicine Biobanking & BINDS (Bio-Informatics Network for Discovery Science). Her goal is to positively impact human... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
new level Many of the changes companies will make in the short term are obvious: dramatically reduced travel, more work-from-home opportunities for white-collar workers, and changes in business operations to reduce View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) is focused on improving the quality of food, its production, and its distribution in his native Nigeria. Nwuneli is cofounder of AACE Food Processing &... View Details
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
Morse’s “gentle cheerfulness, self-assurance, and sense of direction were qualities which must have furthered her career at Polaroid.” 16 As an art history major at Smith, Morse had access to the collections... View Details
Ashley V. Whillans
Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
philanthropy. We have to take care of all stakeholders—I say customers, vendors, employees, shareholders, and the society in which you work. You can't produce a bad quality and high cost product and then... View Details
- 2020
- Article
Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability
By: George Serafeim
Combining corporate sustainability performance scores based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data with big data measuring public sentiment about a company’s sustainability performance, I find that the valuation premium paid for companies with strong... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Big Data; Machine Learning; Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Performance; Asset Pricing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Human Capital; Public Opinion; Value; Analytics and Data Science
Serafeim, George. "Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability." Financial Analysts Journal 76, no. 2 (2020): 26–46.
- 2025
- Working Paper
The Impact of Input Inaccuracy on Leveraging AI Tools: Evidence from Algorithmic Labor Scheduling
By: Caleb Kwon, Antonio Moreno and Ananth Raman
Problem Definition: Considerable academic and practitioner attention is placed on the value of ex-post interactions (i.e., overrides) in the human-AI interface. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to ex-ante human-AI interactions (e.g., the... View Details
Kwon, Caleb, Antonio Moreno, and Ananth Raman. "The Impact of Input Inaccuracy on Leveraging AI Tools: Evidence from Algorithmic Labor Scheduling." Working Paper, January 2025.