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- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
Confronting greater media scrutiny and an ever-increasing number of shareholder resolutions focusing on executive pay, Corporate America continues to support current pay practices as a product of "the market." Not too long ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
—Shereen Shermak, HBS Rock Center Entrepreneur-in Residence and CEO of cryptography company Nth Party Remote-first labor is the greatest boon to software startups since Amazon Web Services. No role in a SaaS startup, from engineering to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Dennison to mechanize the production of watches, a technique recently applied to firearms. Dennison, an artisan watchmaker underemployed throughout the crisis years, calculated that interchangeable parts could dramatically reduce the high... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
page « To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni trendsetters, click on their photos below: Marjorie Yang Instilling Production with Principles Instilling Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent price spike. We saw the growing demand, but as soon as prices... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
At the PSA Corporation’s Pasir Panjang container terminal in Singapore, the cranes operate automatically: no drivers, just operators remotely controlling up to six of the lifting machines with a single joystick. Welcome to the most advanced port in the world — and the... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- News
The Yella Fella Rides Again
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
that arises from merely purchasing a product. Labor increases valuation of completed products not just for consumers who profess an interest in "do-it-yourself" projects, but even for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104. View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
India’s finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), is presiding over an economy, Asia’s third largest, that’s chugging along nicely and projected to finish with a 7 percent growth rate this year. But as Chidambaram told Reuters News (September 15, 2005), he’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
pace of technological change, the emergence of a gig economy, and shifting global and labor markets. As faculty co-chairs of the Managing the Future of Work project, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller are leading efforts to prepare leaders... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s gross domestic View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
Tailoring High Tech » Return to Fashion's Retail Revolution main page « To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni trendsetters, click on their photos below: Marjorie Yang Instilling Production with Principles Instilling View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the years my research has been increasingly focused on consumer finance, combining case studies, empirical projects, and experiments — the latter often in conjunction with Commonwealth, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
the manufacturing activity, involving everything from the cost per kilowatt-hour for electricity rates to local material and wage costs. There are also productivity differences between countries to consider, thanks in part to varying... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
to return to their countries of origin....” Ben commented that “We have a need for skilled and unskilled labor here (in the U.S.) and we value inclusion and integration... (But) I think our government shouldn’t copy any other country’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are going to like the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major decisions about View Details