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- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
developed market, or battle for consumers in a bigger, more established market? Where do you locate your activities? "People rushed into China, and now wage rates are going through the roof," Collis says. Building a manufacturing plant is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
and relatives in Greece lead better lives than they can afford. Their wages are high, their benefits even higher, and their taxes are low (because, he claims, they avoid paying them). Banks in other countries have to finance Greek... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report
leaders, but employees can also work to close gaps by illustrating that their labor is invaluable. This has historically been achieved through various means, but most often through collective bargaining. Professor Beshears’ case study on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
some were not. I have seen firsthand union threats and violence against employers and their property. Worse yet, I have seen unbridled coworker intimidation to and by union wage earners. In my opinion, if ever there was a group that must... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
ambition, and become better job and wage negotiators while choosing a partner who can help share the load of a career. The work that Amy Cuddy has, as of this date, shared with more than 28 million viewers on TEDTalks provides nuts and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping laid-off employees start small... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
skilled outside workers and managers while providing good wages in a country where the average person makes under $100 per year. Equally important is the project’s catalytic impact on future investment. The sponsors have decided to spend... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
knowledge in Baker Collections. Gobierno revolucionario del Perú: bases sociales que lo apoyan Martín J. Scurrah & Abner Montalvo View Record Agriculture and Trade of El Salvador Mary S. Coyner View Record Wage Differences Between United... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
decade, they have also encountered difficulties that could limit future growth. In some ways they’ve become victims of their own success, says Raffaelli, reinvigorating neighborhoods only to see their own rents rise. In addition, they’ve struggled to raise View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
productivity requires a large middle class that can afford to consume what is being produced. Solve the economic inequality problem, and we will solve the slow growth problem as well as a lot of other societal problems.” Gamaliel Pascual contrasted the positive impact... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher job-finding probabilities and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been... View Details
- November 2006
- Article
The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies
By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Change; Business Ventures; Compensation and Benefits; Rank and Position; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Jobs and Positions; United States
Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 4 (November 2006): 759–773.
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Behavioral economists argue that above-market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
that the share of total household income from self-employment versus outside wages increased 16 percent. That is, these new businesses were successful enough to contribute significantly to household income. "The newly self-employed... View Details