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04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop competitive private sectors.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

02 Mar 2016
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Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

terrorist is moot.” Several addressed the more specific issue of Apple’s dispute with the FBI. The question of what a government can demand in a democracy roughly split respondents down the middle. Taking Apple’s side, ZBV said: “The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

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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

01 Aug 2005
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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

11 Jun 2012
News

Starting Up in Brazil

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

July 1991 (Revised December 2018)
Compilation

Slavery

By: Thomas K. McCraw

Explores the general history of slavery in the United States. Through detailed exhibits and a text consisting of excerpts from six first-hand observations of slavery, this note is designed to present the ethics, economics (especially the perverse incentive systems),... View Details

Keywords: Slavery; Human Capital; History; Ethics; Social Issues; Motivation and Incentives; United States

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04 Nov 2016
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Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?

Kurt Summers Jr. (MBA 2005) denies he has his sights set on anything beyond another term as Chicago city treasurer, a job he’s held since 2014, but in a long profile, Crain’s Chicago Business speculates about the 37-year-old South Side native’s ambitions. Several... 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

04 Feb 2022
News

Hour by Hour

people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” HourWork also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying employees who leave a company and using that data to help businesses address issues that... View Details

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

store asset productivity since 2007, these issues become even more pertinent. Compounding the issue, most retailers have already reduced their in-store labor to such an extent that further cost-cutting has a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

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

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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

under construction, also employed workers from Hegeman-Harris, leaving labor sometimes in short supply at the Business School. Completion of the campus dormitories, however, took only sixteen months, allowing more than 750 students to... View Details

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

revenue composition than budget mismanagement, as some observers have argued, says Green. “The fact that there were cuts along this dimension, I think, shows you that this is not just an issue of states being irresponsible,” he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2010
News

Déjà Vu All Over Again

leading to the Panic of 1873; James Landis, an early champion of financial regulation; a run on New York’s 19th Ward Bank in the early 1900s; privately issued banknotes from the 1830s wreaked havoc with the nation’s money supply. Union... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

income mobility has not declined in the US, said "This metric of income inequality (ignoring mobility) causes meaningless chasing of rainbows Folks move up through the quintiles of earning all the time (therefore mitigating the issue... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Suchita Prasad

what it would take for me to achieve my end goals. On a more personal level, the HBS MBA has provided more meaningful insight into myself as I have mapped my strengths and weaknesses. I have learned to raise difficult issues and... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing

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Nathalie du Preez

Accountability case about child labor. "Initially, I thought the issue was simple. I went into class firmly opposed to child labor," says Nathalie. "Then I heard from a couple of students from India who revealed a different... View Details

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