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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Beantown as a Beacon

Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

backlash ” Harti commented that, “The problem arises when the capital moves off-shore and the work force can’t follow.” Michael put it more bluntly: “I think many Americans have woken up in a state of shocked disbelief to find out free... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

time crunched, the last thing we want to do is squander labor market opportunity and flexibility. Yet that’s what could happen if new companies are forced to build workforces based on dated assumptions about... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • December 2001
  • Case

Van Bolton: Resolving a Labor-Management Dispute

Describes the challenges facing Van Bolton, the head of a large airline, as he works with the head of the company's pilots' union to negotiate issues relating to the acquisition of a smaller airline. Bolton must find ways to surmount a history of adversarial... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Labor Unions; Acquisition; Air Transportation Industry
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Watkins, Michael D. "Van Bolton: Resolving a Labor-Management Dispute." Harvard Business School Case 902-051, December 2001.
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Tried and Tested

has made that topic elusive, for a lot of reasons, with the methods that we use. Zoë, your study of schmoozing and the old boys’ club drew on big data sets. How do you use data to isolate the forces at play in a workplace setting? ZC:... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

How to Spur Prosperity

to Australian citizens. That sounded reasonable, but many of the new ventures were software companies that had to compete globally with firms that used inexpensive labor in places like Bangalore. Whatever the desirability of the policy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Tipping Point

November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is... View Details
Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

disclosure might affect consumer behavior. Previous research has shown that consumers consider 4.6:1 to be the ideal CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio. In reality, the average ratio among S&P 500 companies is roughly 373:1, according to 2014 information from the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • July 2007
  • Case

Kroger Union Negotiations 2005

By: Dennis A. Yao and Mary L. Shelman
A stylized version of the negotiations between Kroger Company and its local unions during 2005. Management faces a sequence of individual negotiations with local unions in addition to meeting the new competitive challenges presented by Wal-Mart's expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Reputation; Wages; Management; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Style; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry
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Yao, Dennis A., and Mary L. Shelman. "Kroger Union Negotiations 2005." Harvard Business School Case 708-433, July 2007.
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Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library

the Boston Associates. The company operated the first mill in the world to combine all aspects of the manufacture of cotton cloth under one roof. The company built its labor force by contracting with... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

election but the “employer doesn’t have the right to force one.” The reality is that the only thing companies can “force” is the union’s hand. Does the union truly represent a majority of employees, or are authorization cards obtained... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

    Whitney Stevens

    Having inherited his fathers labor problems, Whitney Stevens’ early years at his family’s company were dominated by struggles with textile unions. Though the family strongly opposed the organizations, Whitney was View Details
    Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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    Workplace Diversity: Data Sources

    type of role).   US Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor force statistics by a series of demographic points (including age, sex, race, disability, etc.)  are available... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

    the United States, for example, millions of women left the labor force during the first two months of the pandemic. According to a study by McKinsey and Leanin.org, female workforce View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Feb 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

    is whether these efforts overlook a much larger job crisis ahead, one involving the service sector. The focus of attention is on a sector of the American economy that employs 12.3 million people, down from about 17.3 million in 2000, a 29 percent decline. According to... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
    • 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 Mar 2006
    • News

    The Real Conflict

    economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. View Details
    Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    Damon Silvers

    Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation
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