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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

New economy companies may be moving at the speed of light, but they still need managers who can get the job done, according to career development experts who spoke at the African-American Student Union conference, "The Digital... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
  • 04 Mar 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

labor, with Walmart being a prime example. Three remedies are often proposed for the problem: 1. Legislated increases in the minimum wage 2. New laws that support unions and raise their bargaining power 3. Government-financed education... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

needed to ponder on how to revise the company's compensation system to better motivate its staff in a deregulated market and communicate all these changes to the unionized labor force. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

operational performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-062.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsFreelancers Union Michel Anteby and Erin McFeeHarvard Business School Case 412-056 Sara Horowitz faces a major strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

case is based have been disguised. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-026 The TTIP: Bridging the Transatlantic Economy In 2016, the United States and the European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2025
  • Teaching Plan

Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

By: Willy Shih
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 625-003. New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into new businesses, such as voice AI and self-driving vehicles, they also faced new and challenging questions about user privacy. The European View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

SebeniusHarvard Business School Note 912-029 This note provides historical context and background for a challenging negotiation by Col. Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Regiment of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2019
  • Case

Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
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  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

potential American demand for prize-linked savings accounts, an account that awards prizes as part of the saving product's return. In October 2006, Centra Credit Union launched a prize-linked savings pilot. As part of that initiative, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

ongoing capital at a lower cost. The question the co-founders confronted was whether they should get to the $150 million securitization threshold by piecing together smaller pools of capital from credit unions and possibly smaller banks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

the transparency front, it is publishing quarterly reports across nine categories of content, showing how much they take down before users see it. Last May, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation, which places... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

generate growth include relaxing financing constraints for both large and start-up Greek companies and by attracting FDI by reducing political uncertainty and strengthening property rights. So Greece must first help itself. But it is in everyone's interests for the... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

simply a bilateral matter. First, a need to secure construction permits in multiple jurisdictions around the Baltic Sea involved other countries. And second, Germany's membership in the European Union entailed compliance with goals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

long-term contracts based on negotiated "benchmark prices" to contracts based on spot prices, usually forcing mining companies to pay for shipping. Second, for Brazil's charismatic president, Lula, a former union leader, Vale's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

statutes. Allianz, however, could conduct the cross-border merger as a European company according to the Statute of the European Community (Societas Europaea, or SE), which was recently passed by the European Union and adopted into German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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