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22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (SANY), SANY Group's major subsidiary, engaged in the construction equipment business and was number six on International Construction's 2012 Yellow Table, a ranking of the world's largest construction equipment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Browne caused a stir about five years ago when he broke ranks with the rest of the oil companies in a public statement at Stanford University. "He said, 'We actually think global climate change is a very serious problem, and we're... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

in restricting the ability of firms to locate where it makes sense for them to be, but rather to create tax reform that makes US firms more competitive. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Hatch, and Members of the Committee, it is a pleasure... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

ranking 16th out of 20 in the number of students who complete high school. Just as importantly, public education is facing a social justice issue that has the potential to undermine our democracy. Even with a dramatic increase in targeted... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

Summing Up Should "Moneyball Analytics" Play a Greater Role in Preparation for Management? There was general agreement among respondents to this month's column that we will see a growing emphasis on analytics among managers as millennials enter the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

top players' market share declined more than 10 percent. Not surprisingly, many executives' faith in CRM has waned. In a 2001 Bain & Co. survey of the 25 most popular management tools, CRM was ranked near the bottom. In a follow-up... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

East title and ranking second in the league both offensively and defensively. At the end of the season, Jimmy Johnson resigned as head coach, unable to work harmoniously with Jerry Jones. Jones hired Barry Switzer of the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

March 2023
Supplement

Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal

In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details

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23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United States. In particular, we consider policies that are based on a point system, which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

White stay-at-home mothers are idealized, while black stay-at-home mothers are stereotyped as lazy welfare exploiters, because unlike white mothers, society expects black mothers to work. In one experiment Cuddy described, participants were asked to View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53787 Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance By: Cai, Wei, and Susanna Gallani Abstract—This study explores the effects of subjective adjustments of objective performance... View Details

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

rankings even after changing employers: women. Unlike their male counterparts, female stars who switched firms performed just as well, in the aggregate, as those who stayed put. The 189 star women in the sample (18% of the star analysts... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

case, the entire organization has been structured to create a kind of talent marketplace in which employees are "buying and selling" ideas, jobs, and associates. At W. L. Gore & Associates, manufacturer of Gore-Tex, "there are no View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

expectations with them. With the support of ambitious university presidents, they strove to make their new academic environments like those from which they had come. This internal drive was reinforced by external systems for accrediting, classifying, and View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

both measures, the U.S. ranks low relative to other countries, particularly those in the Middle East. In responses to this month's column, Kamal Gupta believes one explanation is that "societies range from 'deal based' to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

four categories: An offshorability index of 100 to 76 was ranked as "highly offshorable," or Category I; 75-51 (Category II) was "offshorable"; 50-26 (Category III) was "non-offshorable"; and 25-0 (Category IV) was "highly... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

like to pay you to come back and teach someone who's still employed how to do what you did, because what you did was actually really important for the company," Sucher says. "If I had to rank-order bad situations handled poorly, that situation would View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

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