Labor And Management Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

networks is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization.” A year ago many people poked fun at Facebook as a place... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

whether people will let him cut in line at the airport for a $10 bribe. These experiments are proving integral in learning not only what makes people tick but also how that matters for business. "Over the last decade, scholars and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November 1989
Case

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

Citation

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16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Making Finance Personal

Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

16 Sep 2015
Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

material. All we are asking for is transparency about the board’s view of the role of its corporation in society. About the authors: Robert G. Eccles is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2010
Supplement

Sherritt Goes to Cuba (B): Dealing with Political Risk Under Raul Castro

By: Aldo Musacchio and Jonathan Schlefer

Keywords: Risk Management; Government and Politics; International Relations; Cuba

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06 Dec 2010
News

Rebound in the Automotive Garage

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

October 1985
Article

Further Thoughts on the Power of Alternatives: An Example from Labor-Management Negotiations in Major League Baseball

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Labor and Management Relations; Negotiation; Entertainment; Sports Industry

Citation

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

more important, Choudhury says, as people increasingly choose to live and work close to where they grew up, often foregoing economic opportunity to do so. “Vacation flexibility means being able to go to your View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

that "firm performance and top management compensation are inversely related." And this may not have taken into account the large severance payments made to those... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

synergies. His brief to Vineet Nayyar-the vice chairman and managing director of Tech Mahindra and the vice chairman of Satyam-and C.P Gurnani-the CEO of Mahindra Satyam-was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

making social enterprise an attractive setting to study hybrid organizing. Based on a literature review of organizational research on social enterprise and on our own research in this domain, we develop five dimensions of hybrid... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal Art of the New Deal 1935 National View Details

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

different versions of their applications for each social networking site. Facebook's managers had to decide how to respond to OpenSocial. Should they join the initiative or keep Facebook Platform proprietary View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Case

Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

On October 20, 2009, Brady Dougan, the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, announced a new compensation plan for the bank. The announcement had followed quickly on the heels of the G-20 meeting the prior month where, in the wake of the financial crisis, the major governments... View Details