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- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
in place by management – can corrupt the behaviour of both individuals and the organisation as a whole. At Sears, for example, management implemented a new goal-setting and compensation system to spur sales at the company’s auto repair centres across the United States.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
lobbyists influenced new policies that ultimately weakened critical union protections and ensured that the minimum wage stagnated, failing to keep up with inflation. Baby Boomers experienced conditions in... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
consequences of senior leadership’s choices, says Kerr. “It’s easy to be critical and say that Walmart should be doing more, but when students review the company’s actions over the past five years, they have to confront the fact that every time the View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position created Worker shortage: Unions double membership and increase wages Influence:... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and stakeholder communities, increasing the company’s minimum wage to $15 in 2015 and overseeing a historic gift... View Details
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
Became Best in the World D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business Cloud chef is potentially a new career created by the pandemic. What... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Influence: Medium-Low 20 1920 s 19 Union membership declines sharply Minimum wage and maximum working hour legislation overturned Influence: High 30 1930 s 19 Unemployment peaks at 25% Unions surge, adding 7... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
have long balanced competing notions of fairness when deciding on policy toward the poor. We want everyone to pitch in, to pay their "fair share," so we have moved away from making cash transfers to low-income households and have avoided proposals for a View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
such huge growth. They need a lot of people for their distribution centers. We’ve seen, for example, Walmart raise their minimum wage; we’ve seen Amazon raising their minimum wage. Manufacturing View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against disenfranchisement of the... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
first time. Employers using a job site for the first time may pay more than necessary for a candidate. ©iStock/Mufti (Most of the workers on the site are from India or the Philippines, where minimum wages... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in... View Details
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is political dynamite and damages the reputation of American... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit By: Luca, Dara Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
in the developing world, Jeffrey Ballinger was the first to criticize Nike's labor policies in Asia. When he arrived in Indonesia in 1988, the country's daily minimum wage was about $0.86. By 1997, it had... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
Edward A. Filene
labor policies, Filene established a minimum wage for women, instituted Saturday closings during the summer, recognized winter vacations in addition to normal summer holidays, and created The Filene... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett