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- 2022
- Working Paper
A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk
By: Drew Keller, Katie Panella and George Serafeim
Currently the accounting system records employee wages as an expense in the income statement. However, paying below living wages can expose an organization to reputational and operational risks. In this paper, we offer an alternative conceptualization of the issue of... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Impact Accounting; Leverage; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Human Capital
Keller, Drew, Katie Panella, and George Serafeim. "A Conceptualization of Sub-Living Wages: Liabilities, Leverage, and Risk." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-076, June 2022.
- August 2000
- Case
Belmont Industries, Inc. (D)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details
Keywords: Wages; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Labor and Management Relations
Bower, Joseph L. "Belmont Industries, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Case 301-019, August 2000.
- 04 Nov 2021
- News
Using Design Thinking to Improve Worker Safety in Manufacturing
Keywords: Design thinking
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium goals expire in 2015, Nigeria's finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (TGMP 2, 1997),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
data from 111 workers — college students who labored in service jobs — the pair measured job satisfaction and its relationship to whether workers were being asked to hide or exaggerate emotions. Their study, “A Longitudinal Analysis of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
recent development for multinationals, notes Spar, who is an authority on business-government relations and foreign direct investment. The traditional corporate reaction toward distant countries' and subcontractors' View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
Economics; Brigitte C. Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds, with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. The team has completed numerous projects together,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
while Asians prefer arbitration or out-of-court settlement. Management-labor relations in Asia are also generally less confrontational, families figure more prominently in organizational structures, and ties between government and... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 1982 (Revised May 1985)
- Case
Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard
By: Michael Beer and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Provides an overview of all the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze Hewlett-Packard's practices in all four policy areas; stakeholder influence, flows, rewards, and work systems. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Working Conditions; Policy
Beer, Michael, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard." Harvard Business School Case 482-125, May 1982. (Revised May 1985.)
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
in part because the population is aging. A key question for policymakers centers on whether local labor markets can adjust or whether a population drop tied to robots will lead to persistent levels of unemployment and growing regional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
companies to expense (count as a cost) the value of employee stock option grants beginning the following year. 2006 The SEC increases pay disclosure requirements in an attempt to increase transparency. Related Links Over the Top A Student... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel agents and some View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 28 Jan 2014
- News
The Good Jobs Strategy
- 19 Nov 2013
- News
Can Damon Silvers Save Organized Labor?
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details
Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 20 Oct 2020
- News