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- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
middle," as Professor Michael Porter terms it. That is, China and India are taking all the businesses (manufacturing and services) on the low end (as their GDPs/capita and wages are lower) while they really don't compete yet with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
employment and wage data across European clusters. The data is used to analyze whether cluster presence is significantly correlated with higher wages, which, as an indicator of higher productivity, are likely to signal the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
companies, and this is where we’re seeing more segregation. So, we made gains in some companies, but overall have seen a loss in diversity. That’s problematic.” The connection between racial segregation and wage inequality The authors are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
link: http://francescagino.com/#/judgment_research Working Papers When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and hence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2010
- Article
Work Pray Love
This article identifies five problematic issues in the intersection of work and life that create human resource challenges for organizations and their employees. These include work overload, the slow pace of adopting telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Work-Life Balance; Religion; Technology Adoption; Problems and Challenges; Human Resources; Gender
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Work Pray Love." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
that performance measure look more favorable. Surprisingly, this extra work can be dysfunctional from a firm's perspective, especially when labor markets are most competitive. In a hot labor market, a firm will lose employees to its competitors unless it meets the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1759545 When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Monetary Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Has greater turbulence among firms fueled rising wage instability in the U.S.? Gottschalk and Moffitt [1994] find that rising earnings instability was responsible for one-third to one-half of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
more, inflation-adjusted wages stalled for many, even as consumer spending increased. Where did the money for all this spending come from? Companies borrowed, governments borrowed, and families borrowed. Savings rates approached zero.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
underlying social contract. A second union was quickly organized, and it took a far more adversarial approach, demanding higher wages and insisting on job guarantees. Local suppliers saw the company as untrustworthy and refused to do... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the future," he concluded. "If you want to buy a home today, you better have great credit. You better have a down payment. That all sounds fine and secure, but it certainly leaves behind millions of families who are at the lower end of the View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50854 Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation Baxter Management Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
ncludes 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; Wages; Working Conditions; Management; Negotiation Process; Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation Baxter Management Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-324, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach... View Details
- September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations
By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
Friedman, Jeremy, and David Lane. "The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations." Harvard Business School Case 723-001, September 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
2002. Walmart grew significantly, expanded internationally, and became a leading player in groceries. However, it also faced criticism regarding its wage and labor practices. Meanwhile, Kmart faced an identity crisis, falling between the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
percent of all manufactured goods in the U.S. are outsourced, and not everything is outsourceable. Furthermore, wage inflation in China has dented its competitiveness and there are other location choices. So, the question is: How much... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne