labor issues - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

for anyone who has watched their business — or job — go overseas. As the 2004 presidential election nears, many wonder if, when, and how the issue will be addressed. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow has visited China in an effort to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2011
News

Where the Jobs Are

approach to taking a more in-depth look at a single topic through the experiences of alumni and the insights of faculty experts. HBS alumni interviewed for this issue lead companies ranging in size from a global powerhouse to just twenty... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

wealth that was created. And the layoffs were carefully tailored to the needs of the business; they were not simply set arbitrarily high, to please Wall Street. In the case of United's restructuring, what impressed me was how complicated the whole thing was, how many... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

Flex Time

sophisticated communication systems that include detailed weekly reports from UCC’s sales force and senior managers. As long as her days may be — talking on the phone with customers, following up on issues raised during a weekly... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

address these challenges. We presented those discussions and the results to our colleagues at the colloquium and asked for their views. Do CEOs see these threats as imminent? In a sense, some of these issues are now factoring into daily... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

we need less office space; e-commerce will mean we will need less retail space and new kinds of industrial buildings. Autonomous vehicles—if the ethical, legal, and technical issues can be resolved—may reduce the need for roads and... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

regulated. In the end, it is not a story of economics but of people. — Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71), the editor of Challenge magazine, is a frequent contributor and commentator on business and economic issues in a variety of print and broadcast... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

corporate tax code (perhaps “the single most powerful step to improve America’s economic trajectory almost immediately”). The authors argue that while all eight issues enjoy some measure of bipartisan support, the gridlock in Washington... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

25 Sep 2008
News

Been There, Seen That

Are we talking loudly enough about what we are finding? We tend sometimes at HBS not to write the final chapter, in which we’re critical. We tend to be polite.” Ironically, in the current September issue of the Bulletin, in a conversation... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government; Management

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a shortfall in demand due to “some... View Details

10 Apr 2008
News

The Sum of Our Own Greatness

Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.” For Ryder, who confesses that the film... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Apr 2020
News

Money Matters

of financial security, because you can't necessarily rely on credit cards or retirement savings for emergencies," she says. "You should have three to six months of living expenses saved up." Returns on that emergency fund are less important than the fact that it must... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled with smile lines, sits easily,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

24 Sep 2014
News

We Don't Have to Ditch Capitalism to Fight Climate Change

Keywords: climate change; capitalism; carbon tax; subsidies; alternative energy

Fast Answer

Real estate: emerging markets

href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/wdi.html" target="_blank" title="World Development Indicators">World Development Indicators Statistics for almost 600 development indicators (including public health, environment, education, and labor... View Details

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

economy? The ones most at risk? A: Singapore, China, and India are clearly doing the best and, pending political stability, Russia. Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa all have significant competitive problems, and Italy, Japan, and the USA have View Details