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  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

improved management and decentralization; (2) larger firms, skill-intensive plants, and foreign multinationals appear better managed and are more decentralized; (3) firms that are both family owned and managed appear to have worse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

Lawyers, financial professionals, doctors—these types of workers often expect their abilities to remain steady or grow with time. But Brooks points to data showing that’s not the case. In almost every high-skill profession, he finds,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Production Cost Advantage By: Drake, David F. Abstract—Emissions regulation is a policy mechanism intended to address the threat of climate change. However, the stringency of emissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

activity, and foreign direct investment from multiple sources, including corporate earnings calls. Less business in China, but trade remains global One major takeaway from the analysis: The share of Chinese goods and services fell to 16.5... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

scholar examines the rewards and shortcomings of skilled immigration in the United States Kevin Shih 17 Oct 2018 | Science The United States Must Embrace Global Talent, As High-Skilled Foreign Workers Go... View Details
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Research Services - Faculty & Research

Writing Group provides foreign language support and business practices. The Directors of Research also offer an occasional faculty “immersion” to provide opportunities for faculty who have spent little or no time in emerging countries to... View Details
  • 2012
  • Discussion Paper

Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore
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General Management - Faculty & Research

parents and their foreign affiliates. We also document the prevalence of intrafirm trade: more than half (three-quarters) of affiliates worldwide (in North America) export to or import from their U.S. parent. Our findings provide strong... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

contract) does lead to higher effort for the duration of our job. This subtle but critical difference sheds light on the conditions under which higher wages will lead to reciprocity. We find that the impact of the gift is pronounced for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Hiring International Students

professional business function and employers do not need to interact with the US government to secure work authorization. There is no cost to employers and this is the first step to ensuring a smooth transition to full-time worker. It is then easy to convert these... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-062.pdf 'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract We present the results of a 10-day field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

with formidable challenges. In addition to deciding how many employees should be laid off, management must decide which employees to target (e.g., white collar vs. factory workers, domestic vs. foreign employees, etc.) and set a timetable... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

that foreign companies employ 5.4 million in the United States. Clark is not optimistic about today's societies that have not had a long history of cultural foundations and functioning institutions that support the kind of formal and... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to consolidate its global position by acquiring several foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

champions that the government hoped to create, SPH was also considering an acquisition in the U.S. or Europe. This case allows students to consider the broad trends sweeping China's pharmaceutical industry and health care sector and assess future opportunities there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Gift of Global Talent

rewards and shortcomings of skilled immigration in the United States Kevin Shih 17 Oct 2018 | Science The United States Must Embrace Global Talent, As High-Skilled Foreign Workers Go Elsewhere Walter Ewing... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

which makes it difficult for organizations to sponsor a foreign worker who is not already in the United States. Eligibility Must have at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent Offered position must... View Details
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Between 1990 and 2008, the US economy added 27 million jobs. Ninety-eight percent of them were in nontradable activities. This is another way of saying that most American job growth has come in sectors where US workers don't compete... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing