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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
in Paris arranged Trumbull’s interviews with government officials and NGO leaders across the continent. “They were all exhausted,” Trumbull recalls of his interview subjects. “The human weight of the situation was taking a toll on them.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book Critical Knowledge Transfer:... View Details
- June 2023
- Article
The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
By: Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of... View Details
Keywords: Search Costs; Privacy; Norms; Compensation; Financial Industry; Field Experiment; Knowledge Dissemination; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols
Cullen, Zoë, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information." Art. 104890. Journal of Public Economics 222 (June 2023).
- 2023
- Working Paper
Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and N. Bugra Ozel
We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a
federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as “managers” and paid a salary above a
pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions... View Details
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and N. Bugra Ozel. "Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30826, January 2023.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization
By: Benjamin Enke, Mattias Polborn and Alex A Wu
Motivated by novel survey evidence, this paper develops a theory of political
behavior in which values are a luxury good: the relative weight voters place
on values rather than material considerations increases in income. The model
predicts (i) voters who are... View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Government and Politics; Moral Sensibility; Luxury; Values and Beliefs; Voting
Enke, Benjamin, Mattias Polborn, and Alex A Wu. "Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization." Working Paper, April 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Supplement
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)
By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
At the conclusion of the (A) case, Jennifer Trosper needed to decide whether or not to throw her support behind the training and outreach represented by the ROV-E program to build small rovers like the ones used on the surface of Mars by NASA JPL. The (B) case... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Aerospace Industry; United States
Leonard, Dorothy, and Christopher Myers. "Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 917-405, September 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- May–June 2013
- Article
Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? Response: Promoting Political Mobilization
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these codes of conduct also create possibilities for political mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Auditing; Labor Relations; Occupational Safety; Environmental Operations; Environmental Regulation; Employees; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; China; Bangladesh; India; Honduras; Nicaragua; Pakistan; Guatemala; Malaysia; Viet Nam
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? Response: Promoting Political Mobilization." Boston Review 38, no. 3 (May–June 2013).
- July 19, 2011
- Article
Social Security Refrom Is the Key to the Debt Ceiling Debate
By: Robert C. Pozen
- 2008
- Chapter
Life-Cycle Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira
The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
Viceira, Luis M. "Life-Cycle Funds." Chap. 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- January 1998 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Neiman Marcus (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
The management of Neiman Marcus, a highly successful luxury goods retailer, is considering ways to grow the business and continue to return in excess of 15% on capital. Among the options on the table is a jewelry store concept called The Galleries. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Investment; Investment Return; Operations; Luxury; Retail Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Neiman Marcus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 599-098, January 1998. (Revised September 2000.)
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation
- 27 May 2021
- News
CEO Series: Ursula Burns on Leading with Authenticity at Xerox
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
lot since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At sort of its most basic level, how has this crisis changed how we communicate? Rachel: Well, this is an important time for human connection, a great opportunity for leaders to innovate in... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- Profile
Gordon Ross
area with a horrendous natural disaster where major things went wrong. Yet I’ve never met so many positive, optimistic people. New Orleans is an advertisement for the human spirit and how it can pull you through.” Managing a different... View Details
- Profile
Ann Lucena
with an interest in psychology, I thought it was a great way to educate an entire nation." Driven by a desire to know "how a world-changing company does what it does," Ann took her second internship at Google, where she worked in the tech giant's View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
the next day I reported to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. Within a few weeks I was in Afghanistan. I was the senior human intelligence officer on the military side for overt collection. I had a team of 15 in civilian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
are seeking with brands and companies and how they want to relate. What happens when a brand misunderstands the consumer-brand relationship? There are a lot of parallels to human relationships here. Imagine if you walked into my office,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
participate directly in the process, they don't ask the right questions. Leaders most typically choose members of their teams. There is a large body of literature that concerns a tendency of many leaders to choose those who have human... View Details