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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
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 20 Dec 2023
  • News

New School

In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and students who suddenly found... View Details
  • Web

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
  • 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
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
  • Web

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
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
  • 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer
  • 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
Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    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 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
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