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  • December 2010
  • Article

Work Pray Love

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
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
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Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Work Pray Love." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
  • January 2020
  • Article

Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

By: Ethan Rouen
I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and... View Details
Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Employees; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
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Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance." Accounting Review 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 343–378.
  • November 2006
  • Case

Kroger Union Negotiations

By: Dennis A. Yao
A stylized version of the negotiations between Kroger Company and its local unions during the mid-1980s. Management faces a sequence of individual negotiations with local unions during a time of weak economic performance when management is seriously considering... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Wages; Management; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics
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Yao, Dennis A. "Kroger Union Negotiations." Harvard Business School Case 707-503, November 2006.
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

How DC is Taxing the Country

in three years, with firms less able to compete in the global marketplace, pay employees higher wages and benefits, or both. A turnaround would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system, the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
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Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers

By: Benjamin Edelman
I analyze all questions and answers from the inception of the Google Answers service through November 2003, and I find notable trends in answerer behavior: more experienced answerers provide answers with the characteristics askers most value, receiving higher ratings... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Opportunities; Behavior; Value; Jobs and Positions; Wages; Business Earnings
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Edelman, Benjamin. "Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers." Economic Inquiry 50, no. 2 (April 2012): 309–320. (draft as first circulated in 2004.)
  • Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney patents gin that... View Details
  • Web

The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

Christopher Eaglin Videos Play Video duration: 1:31 The wealth gap: Rethinking equity ownership in modern business. Harvard Business School professor Ethan Rouen explains how the evolution of ownership structures - particularly the growing disparity between equity... View Details
  • 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
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

issues far more seriously, before a point of no return was reached. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54864 Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit By: Luca, Dara Lee, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna
  • November 11, 2022
  • Editorial

Finally Companies Have to Be Upfront about Job Pay Ranges

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The significance of pay transparency laws is their role in moving American workplaces away from bias and closer to equal opportunity. View Details
Keywords: Pay; Salary; Pay Gap; Transparency; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Equality and Inequality
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Finally Companies Have to Be Upfront about Job Pay Ranges." CNN.com (November 11, 2022). (Opinion.)
  • 29 Jul 2021
  • News

Support System

for-profit B2C company that offers fair wages and provides education and retirement funds to its 7,500 registered pickers in the region. She later launched Mother’s Shea. As they have landed in retailers like Anthropologie, Credo Beauty,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership

company I cared desperately about," Graham noted. "I had participated, at least by osmosis, in the long struggle my father and my husband had waged to make the Post a success. But I was a long way from becoming an effective executive and... View Details
  • November 1994
  • Case

Navistar International

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
As a consequence of laying off half its workforce in a massive downsizing program, the company--a large manufacturer of medium and heavy trucks--struggles with a huge ($2.6 billion) liability for retiree medical costs. Although the company has promised its retirees... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Wages; Labor Unions; Legal Liability; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring
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Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Navistar International." Harvard Business School Case 295-030, November 1994.
  • 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
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Counternormative Identity within Your Own Community” at the 2019 Gender and Work Symposium. Elise Jones, Doctoral Candidate at Boston College, presents the Flash Talk “Constructing a Counternormative Identity within Your Own Community” at the 2019 Gender and Work... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

The Hidden Costs of Flexible Labor Models: How Working Multiple Jobs Affects Employees

By: Paige Tsai and Ryan W. Buell
As operations increasingly rely upon flexible labor models—such as gig, part-time, and remote work—it has become commonplace for individuals to work multiple jobs. Across three studies, relying on a combination of transaction-level data from 90,548 customers of a... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Employee Behavior; Job Design; Sustainable Operations; Job Design and Levels; Personal Finance; Well-being; Happiness; Satisfaction; Wages
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Tsai, Paige, and Ryan W. Buell. "The Hidden Costs of Flexible Labor Models: How Working Multiple Jobs Affects Employees." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-036, January 2025. (Revised June 2025.)
  • December 2021
  • Article

Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
What are the long-term consequences of compensation changes? Using data from an inbound sales call center, we study employee responses to a compensation change that ultimately reduced take-home pay by 7% for the average affected worker. The change caused a significant... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Change; Performance; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Analysis
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Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm." Management Science 67, no. 12 (December 2021): 7687–7707.
  • 11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce

“Instead of traditional loans, these programs use income-share agreements that are repaid based on future salaries, with graduates earning higher wages subsidizing the cost for those not working or making less. Graduates making at least... View Details
  • 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
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Bower, Joseph L. "Belmont Industries, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Case 301-019, August 2000.
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