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  • 16 Oct 2014
  • News

Innovating for International Aid

It’s no secret HBS graduates are a hard-charging bunch who sometimes find it hard to take time off. Most eventually learn how to do this so they can recharge to do even harder charging—spending time at a beach, playing golf, climbing mountains, or the like. But Scott... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

standardized products. Yet the bulk of the related literature, which focuses on whether consumers prefer global brands, misses out on supply-side considerations related to costs. Q: How can the study of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

and time), across cultures with differing tolerance for ambiguity in relationships (the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria), and is distinct from related constructs such as generosity, conscientiousness, fastidious, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2019
  • News

A Model of Drive and Impact

million in revenues. We grew very fast. “I decided to donate part of the money that we made with Clicars to social causes related to swim challenges. I decided to pick out different places in the world to conduct unprecedented swims... View Details
Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Research Brief: Capitol Gains

oil-rich state, for example, the financial impact (positive or negative) of a bill affecting the state's petroleum producers and related companies could be inferred by following the votes of the state's lawmakers. The politicians, after... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

team.) Team members could click on each occupation ("Architectural Drafters," for example) to review information from a database developed for the U.S. Department of Labor. The database, O*NET, describes hundreds of occupations and breaks out the most relevant tasks,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

shift slightly in mindset to optimize for their work more often. Related Reading: Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All Why You Are Unhappy at Work What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and (2) that activity abroad by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2007 (Revised July 2016)
  • Teaching Note

Gordon Bethune at Continental Airlines

By: Anthony J. Mayo
A $385 million loss for the final months of fiscal year 1994 signaled Continental might go bankrupt. Could new CEO Gordon Bethune turn Continental around? Continental was in dire straits because the deregulation of the commercial airline industry in 1978 ushered in a... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Labor and Management Relations
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  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Faculty Books

The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with the perspective of someone who... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 27 Mar 2014
  • News

From Marx to Marketing

the time a partner at the Athens-based Ulysses Commission Trading Company, an agency company representing foreign manufacturers in the Greek market, watched those dramatic days in late 1989 with mixed feelings. "I knew that the decades-long business View Details
  • December 2020
  • Supplement

France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December... View Details
Keywords: Human Behavior; Human Dignity; Human Resource Practices; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Corporate Culture; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Strategic Change; Strategic Decision Making; Emotion; Management Challenges; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Law; Courts and Trials; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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  • January 2019 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

New Balance: Managing Orders and Working Conditions

By: Michael W. Toffel, Eileen McNeely and Matthew Preble
New Balance Athletics, Inc., a major U.S.-based athletic footwear and apparel brand, sources most of its footwear products from independent suppliers whose factories are located in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Monica Gorman, vice president of responsible leadership... View Details
Keywords: Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Manufacturing; CSR; Sustainability; Quality Management; Supply Chains; Operations; Management; Production; Working Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Labor and Management Relations; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • November 2010
  • Article

Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link

By: Nitin Nohria
This article discusses the weakening connections between business growth and job creation. The industrial economy of the 20th century ensured that growing firms would need to add workers, but the increasingly globalized and information-based economy of the early 21st... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Economic Growth; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; Value Creation
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  • February 1986 (Revised March 1990)
  • Supplement

Copeland Corp.: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy--1975-82 (C)

By: David A. Garvin
In the preceding case, Copeland had to choose between two alternative plant layouts for organizing its Sidney plant. Now it must get work force approval for a change in "bumping" rules before proceeding with the change. Management must decide how to proceed--to... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Production; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Labor and Management Relations; Restructuring; Decisions; Change Management; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio
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  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. In our first laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

  PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne