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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Golden Age of Black Business 1 “African-American Student Union Marks 25 Years at HBS.” Harvard Business School Bulletin , June 1994, 36. 2 Washington, Booker T. The Negro in Business . Boston: Hertel, Jenkins & Co., 1907. 3 W. E.... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
payment method, please allow additional time for processing: Western Union - 3 business days Domestic wire - 5 business days International wire - 14 business days Loans - 12 business days Could you tell me a little more about the AI... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
You were right all along. From being a left-wing-dominated party, we have become a centrist-dominated party. OK, maybe we remain one or two clicks to the left of you, but still pretty darn close. (And, yes, a lot of us agree the teachers’ View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
California, Berkeley, 2017. 2016 Boris Groysberg : Received the 2016 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching. Summer R. Jackson : Recipient of an MIT Presidential Fellowship in 2016. Lakshmi Ramarajan : Winner of the First Annual African American Student... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
administration's rescue and restructuring of General Motors, spent months trying to save the bankrupt company from dissolving. But the bakery workers' union ultimately refused to accept a proposed deal. "Given the historical... View Details
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Harvard Business School
served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Medtronic from 1993-2005. Before joining Medtronic, he was vice president and CFO at Union Texas Petroleum Corporation. From 1975-1982, Ryan was a vice president at Citicorp,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
EU regulations were in step with sound international practice. Remainers, on the other hand, have spent little time explaining what the UK can do better within the European Union to address the very real competitiveness challenges Great... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- June 1984 (Revised August 1995)
- Teaching Note
Labor Movement Between the Wars, Teaching Note
Keywords: Labor Unions
- November 1987 (Revised September 1988)
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Background Note: GM-UAW Negotiations--1984
Material on 1984 negotiations between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, background for a film on the negotiations. Film available from California Newsreel in San Francisco. View Details
Heckscher, Charles C. "Background Note: GM-UAW Negotiations--1984." Harvard Business School Background Note 488-027, November 1987. (Revised September 1988.)
- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
seals for automotive parts suppliers such as AutoZone and Parts Plus. Developed in 1997, the line continues to expand and contribute to the company’s overall sales, which totaled $2.6 billion in 2002. Delivering on the Details When Lauri View Details
- December 1984
- Teaching Note
General Motors and the United Auto Workers (Condensed), Teaching Note
By: Michael Beer
- May 1984 (Revised August 1995)
- Teaching Note
Organized Labor and the Worker, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-391-256). View Details
Keywords: Labor Unions
- April 1994
- Supplement
Vancom Transportation, Inc. (B)
Describes the outcome of the labor relations issues. View Details
Keywords: Labor Unions
Barnes, Louis B. "Vancom Transportation, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-128, April 1994.
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Dualities in Negotiation: Introduction
Richard Walton and Robert McKersie's closeness to practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Dualities in Negotiation: Introduction." Negotiation Journal 31, no. 4 (October 2015): 333–334.
- October 2021 (Revised November 2022)
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The 2012 Spanish Labor Reform: Lifting All Boats, or Leveling Down?
By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella, Santiago Botella and Elena Corsi
Since 1978, Spain had struggled to control unemployment. The country’s labor law was protective of employees hired long-term and companies used temporary contracts as buffers. In 2012, amid economic recession and a 23.6% unemployment rate, a center-right government of... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Labor Market; Unemployment; Recession; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; International Relations; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Contracts; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Spain; European Union
Pons, Vincent, Rafael Di Tella, Santiago Botella, and Elena Corsi. "The 2012 Spanish Labor Reform: Lifting All Boats, or Leveling Down?" Harvard Business School Case 722-008, October 2021. (Revised November 2022.)