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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Midwest, commented, “Lincoln workers receive high pay and job security, and there is no need for a union there. But I’m not worried that there will be a diminishing role for unions, because most of you are too dumb to run your companies... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf Quality Management and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
been an academic all my life. We share household responsibilities to avoid the common trap of the female partner being saddled with what Arlie Hochschild calls “The Second Shift.” For instance, I do most of the cooking, and she manages our finances. When one of our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
small businesses — entrepreneurial ventures almost by definition — were America’s principal job creators, not big companies.) Entrepreneurship at HBS, what McArthur calls “the house that Howard built,” was soon standing on a firm... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
losing a job, but it was now having this grief and uncertainty of where do you go from here? What that layoff allowed me to do is create space and time in my life for introspection that I hadn't carved out for myself before, and I actually later that summer went to my... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children Kristof grew up with in rural Yamhill, Oregon—an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
document two days ahead, so that other people could read it and think about it. So you couldn't over-talk them. And the job of that investment committee was very simple. It was to figure out all the risks in that investment so that we... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search firm Egon Zehnder, gave advice... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
governance, is when neither CEO wishes to step aside. "The deal will likely be dead in the water," he observes. "If these individuals cannot satisfy their own career and financial interests, our research shows that, in general, the CEO most likely to lose his View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
than most observers expected," he notes. "However, much work remains in the struggle to transform the country's economy and its social structure. Its leaders' principal challenge now is to try to boost job opportunities and personal... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the MCC is doing the right thing, for the right people, at the right time," Bloom says. "This is the best job I've ever had. We're really trying to implement the principle of teaching a man to fish in order to give people the basis for... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
Meakem: I agree. The benefit of jumping right out is that you don't get cushy; you don't get used to a corporate job with corporate perks and get lulled into submission by staying at a large corporation for too long. You avoid that.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
influence from those valued for non-social reasons. The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Publication:In Studies of Labor Market Intermediation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
We cannot have quotas here.” LEWIS: Dean Baker said, “We’d love to have more African American students. We just aren’t doing a very good job of finding people who are interested.” Our immediate reaction was, we can solve that problem. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
could have when I was running Yahoo!’s operations,” Decker says. She will devote part of her EiR year to helping with the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in January and collaborating with faculty on cases related to entrepreneurial management. My... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
situations. Filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies change our minds; and revolutionary strategies like "power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
thousand large retailers, primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It basically does the supply-chain job faster and more accurately with the aid of a sophisticated information system than anyone else. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
feel tricked as the details of all this glam are revealed to have been funded at the company's expense. Others shrug it off. After all, he got the job done for the shareholders. Why shouldn't he get his reward? Surely it is more than... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
very appropriate phrase, wilderness. It was. My wife's American, so we moved to the US early ’91. It was devastating. My whole life was spent being groomed to run this family media company. And now that was over. So what do you do now? I mean try getting a View Details