Worker Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2014
Blog Post

CPD on the Road in Manila

the 40+ medians common throughout Europe and Japan. Labor continues to be one of the country’s biggest exports with overseas workers remitting cash to their families back home, but there’s a growing local consumer market. With 38 million... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

several critical sectors of the economy, including banking and private insurance, federal and state governments act as insurers of last resort, assuming literally trillions of dollars in contingent liabilities. Whether you like it or not, the nation's View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Caterpillar Tractor Co. - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

the world’s leading manufacturers of tractors, was formed in 1925. From early on the company mounted extensive marketing campaigns advertising their products for farming, logging, quarrying, mining, road building, and construction. Over... View Details

22 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Motivate Me, Please

governments to get citizens to do the right thing. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Forget management by walking around. Decreasing workplace transparency can increase worker productivity.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated that: Workers trust colleagues... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

further incentive for advertisers to use it for public relations as well as advertising purposes.” 6 Thus, readers of Fortune magazine would see William Rittase’s documentary images of workers and factories in its editorial pages, and his... View Details

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Heather McLetchie-Leader

workers in Tarboro, North Carolina, or being a Big Sister in Dorchester, Massachusetts. I am a product of amazing grace and I will bring out that grace in others, empowering them to be the people God created... View Details

06 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class,” by Professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman, a program director and senior researcher at HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project. The impact of the practice cuts most deeply for the 76 percent of Black and 83... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Message: Confidence in Corporate America Business is essentially our civilization, for it is... View Details

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

technical employment needs. In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama underscored this point well: " Business leaders who want to hire in the United States can't find workers with the right skills. Growing industries... View Details

27 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

great strides in reducing its emissions intensity per ton of steel, its aggregate emissions will continue to rise as the plant expands its production from 10 MT to 15 MT of steel annually to meet the rapidly growing demand for steel in... View Details

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

Strategic Management Product Market Strategy By: Menon, Anoop, and Dennis Yao Abstract—Product market strategy is the collection of choices, actions, and activities of a firm that determines how it positions itself in its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

internal data with government to gain understanding into their employees—providing insight, for example, into health behavior of workers in different neighborhoods. “There is so much data now, it’s exhilarating—and frightening,” says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Consumers are looking for the ability to bundle the products they want in a fashion unique to each individual, and the Web will provide this capability .... We believe that vertical portals will do the best job of providing the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library

School. Crossroads for Educated Women After World War II, the Training Course in Personnel Administration was renamed the Management Training Program and experienced a brief postwar enrollment boom. The new name reflected a broader scope that included human relations... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

presented by the pandemic on three continents: West Africa The region’s already fragile food ecosystems are buckling under the pandemic strain, with lockdowns keeping farm workers from their fields, supply chains disrupted, price hikes,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

and innovation tend to be used interchangeably, but when it comes to novel ideas in business, they are not necessarily the same thing. "Creativity and innovation are different stages in the same process," says Professor Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

that only 30 percent of employees are engaged in their work. The issues raised are ones I have worked on for many years. With the drive for higher productivity in the workplace, there is little doubt that people are putting in longer... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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