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- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
reasons, Gilson says. First, most of Realogy's operating cash flows were from franchise agreements with local real-estate agencies, and a Chapter 11 filing could have critically damaged relations with the agencies. Second, its workforce... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
safety from the purchase decision. Q: The FDA has fought morale problems and lost senior talent, and now some 30 percent of its workforce is at a point where it can retire. What is going on organizationally with the agency? A: The agency... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
return the business to a sound footing. Or the resulting restructuring may severely disrupt the business. If it is necessary to layoff 20 percent of your workforce to achieve the same cost efficiency as your competitors, better to do this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was actively supported by the government in many ways while... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
structure, and as frontline employees become more pivotally involved in value-creating work, lateral and bottom-up communication comes to be no less important than top-down communication. Third, there is global change. As workforces... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
college, this lower potential to later enter the US workforce weighed heavily on the minds of potential student migrants. Due to some policy quirks, some nationalities were de facto exempt from H-1B visa restrictions and thus could form a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
because they fear they're shortchanging their children for the sake of career advancement. But that attitude can be self-defeating, leading women to hold themselves back from promotions or drop out of the workforce altogether. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
beginning his business, people were pouring into the cities as urbanization accelerated. The family farm and even the family plot, was disappearing. For the first time, women were going into the paid workforce in large numbers, as they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
materials industry. USG was otherwise a solvent, growing company. Bankruptcy was an option, but a successful reorganization was by no means assured. How would USG keep its highly motivated (and non-unionized) workforce and continue to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
(A) A year after Norwegian grocery chain REMA 1000 adopted Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise social network, Chief Human Resource Officer Tore Høylie is asked to evaluate its impact on company culture and communication. Almost 90% of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
we look broadly at Gen Z and the younger generations entering the workforce in the coming years and decade, they prioritize the ability to work from home and the flexibility to be with their families. I don’t want to discount all the... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
assets and improve its profitability. However, Bhattacharya knows that these gains will be fleeting without the development of a trained workforce who can address 21st century industry problems with speed and creativity. This requires... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
goal of the case is to provide an opportunity for students to develop a framework for understanding the factors that might lead to a less diverse workforce and for evaluating approaches to increase diversity. The case opens in 2014, when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-066 JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond this, attracting skilled workers to Germany was a national imperative; as the native population aged and its numbers in the workforce shrank, it would be critical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
It's not always going to work out.—Lynda Clarizio, America Online You can work full time and be a good mom, she insists—it just depends on whose rules you choose to play by. "Women in the workforce are still being asked to play by... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Next, I show that large employers are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are headquartered in politically important states. I also find that firms that employ a larger proportion of a congressional district's total... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
principles that encourage innovating for sustainability throughout the company? A further challenge facing the company is that it was rapidly globalizing with a large portion of its workforce outside its Midland, Michigan headquarters,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
to work in a distributed environment. And then COVID hit. Blanding: How did the pandemic change or inform the topic as you were writing it? Neeley: The pandemic accelerated the completion of the book. I was able to distill the key questions people had as entire View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
lines. The discussion can end with comparisons of the Mexican political and government circumstances that encourage this method of producing workforce housing as compared with the U.S., China, India, and other markets. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace