Employee Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

Le is grappling with a host of operational challenges at Pho Hoa that include poor service and variable food delivery times for the menu’s wide array of 150 items. While his father has stepped aside, Tam’s uncle continues to manage the restaurant’s View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030. At a Council on Foreign View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

additional informational benefit, allowing firms to fully grasp the magnitude of the pandemic in its early days, when exact information on COVID-19 was still scarce. This was the case of VacuumCo, a German company with over 3,500 View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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John H. McArthur | About

through the School’s ranks—teaching courses in corporate finance and related fields in several HBS programs, engaging in research and course development in Europe and North America, and holding a range of important administrative... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

startup ecosystem to improve your chances of raising capital Get an insider view into the venture capital (VC) process Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup ecosystem Who Will Benefit Founder Startup View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

suddenly knew how to make a one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality." 50 As the project began, employees submitted their findings, signed and... View Details

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

called "The Morals of a Market Society" focusing on the virtues Smith wrote about in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). Once I started more research in behavioral economics, I realized how closely Smith's work from TMS View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

match those of their executives. These are all areas for future study, says Kempf, including understanding how the political makeup of an executive team affects a variety of decisions related to hiring, investment, and corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

people anxious by listening to a short music clip and see how they suffer in mock negotiations, then we can extrapolate the effects of anxiety to the pressures of the real world, where it's likely to have an even more profound effect," says Brooks. In View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

thus invigorate their teams and provide cultures that are profitable not because they are forced to, but because they want to." David Mullings added, "We will in fact treat our employees the way we expect to be treated."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Connell House | About

Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. In 2003, Dean Kim B. Clark rededicated the building in honor of the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963), whose family’s gift helped establish the HBS Leadership Initiative, a catalyst for cutting-edge research and course development... View Details

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

savvy and political skill" (Mal Rudner). Efforts may be underway to understand more about issues related to street smarts. Lilly Evans, for example, cited the work in "practical intelligence" by Prof. Robert Sternberg of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

quickly to produce and air new advertising creative that tapped into the rapidly changing zeitgeist. The result, the Retail Heroes campaign, featured CEO McMillon Zooming in remotely from home to thank the one million Walmart front line View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

founder took on the government, says Takeuchi. “He basically disobeyed a government mandate and said we’re entering anyway He always had a fighting spirit with others, and with the government.” 6. Encourage the development of practical wisdom in others, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

some members of each of the samples that have been studied. But these studies raise as many questions as they answer. Is there, for example, a tendency for some women leaders to excel in such things as relating to others, questioning... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

insurance conglomerate. He left a legacy of openness to new technologies, a commitment to employee training, and a collaborative style of leadership that had transformed the company. His success at USAA followed an equally impressive and... View Details

May 2016
Case

The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details