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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

their low wages will effectively prevent Asian workers from being able to purchase many of the manufactured goods they are creating. Since their own internal demand and consumption will be insufficient to generate revenues to stimulate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • June 2010
  • Article

Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Management; Standards; Employees; Wages; Organizations; Profit; Safety; Health; Policy
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  • 15 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

rate (the share of the next dollar earned that is paid in taxes) at the top of the income ladder. Speaker of the House John Boehner, for example, argued that those high earners already paid their fair share: "The top one percent of View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

being improved student outcomes and profits the company could reinvest in students. At a Gestamp automotive manufacturing plant 20 minutes east of downtown Chattanooga, high school students wearing shirts emblazoned with “WBL” (work-based learning) are paid a starting... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

spoke first of the American Dream in his 1931 book The Epic of America: "It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain the fullest stature of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

which makes it difficult for organizations to sponsor a foreign worker who is not already in the United States. Eligibility Must have at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent Offered position must require a bachelor’s degree in a specialized field Annual salary... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

exports instead of adding to global trade (Atkinson, 2009). There is some evidence of this tension emerging in recent years, for example in Europe as German wage restraint improved its relative cost position on export markets. In... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965" with Ewout Frankema. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2013: Winner of the Wageningen School of Social Sciences Publication Award for best article published... View Details
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the View Details
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

of the population lives in rural areas, but the majority of bank branches and jobs are in the cities. To send money home, a city worker had to seal his wages in an envelope and pay a courier to travel for hours to the village.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

issues over his career. He led Open For Business, where he worked with business leaders and activists to collectively advocate for LGBT+ equality in challenging regions. He has also worked on developing new approaches for companies to account for their progress toward... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

chômage partiel, under which the government pays a portion of a company’s wages in times of economic distress to limit layoffs. During the 2008-2009 recession, furlough programs were estimated to have saved 395,000 jobs in Japan and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
  • Exercise

Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1983 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Compensation and Benefits; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Negotiation Process; Labor and Management Relations
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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  • 15 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

States cost companies an estimated $171 billion in wage and productivity losses in 2019, according to the National Safety Council. By 2018, more than 90,000 organizations across 127 countries had adopted OHSAS 18001. The similar ISO 45001... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 19 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

such huge growth. They need a lot of people for their distribution centers. We’ve seen, for example, Walmart raise their minimum wage; we’ve seen Amazon raising their minimum wage. Manufacturing wages have jumped significantly. "Here it... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see them as arbitrary and costly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Nov 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

restrict an employee’s upward mobility and reduce wage and benefits competition among employers. According to statistics cited by the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 12 percent of workers earning less than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett