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  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

replace poor performers in the "producer" sales force, and cut wages and expenses. During a post-closing audit, Thomson discovers a $600k problem that wipes out his contingency funds. He is concerned about having to go back to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

she said, have purchased electric vehicles. She believes that paying her staff a living wage is just good business. “We increase our retention rate by paying people enough to live on, enough so that they don’t require a second job.” She... View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About

businesses that grow and are profitable. But you can’t leave society behind. You must lead your lives and your businesses to serve society: to provide wages that enable people to live with economic dignity, to marshal disaster relief when... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

How to Survive Past Start-up

paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details
Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

people, and it provides skills and good wages in a country where the average person makes from $90 to $100 per year. Equally important is the project's catalytic impact on future investment. The sponsors are considering adding a second... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

financial management system held together by baling wire." Along with bringing the IRS's financial management system into the 21st century, Rossotti reorganized the agency into four units, each responsible for a specific group of taxpayers: individuals with View Details
  • September 2010
  • Case

Bush Brothers & Company

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr
The chairman and CEO of Bush Brothers grapples with leading and managing changes in strategy, governance and board composition, as well as succession, compensation and ownership issues, as he takes the family owned/family operated business into its fourth generation.... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Change Management; Decision Making; Selection and Staffing; Leading Change; Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Wages; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for digital labor markets, and 3) quantification of own- and cross-country elasticities for contract work by wage rate. Digital labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

Overconfident subjects also persist in making the mistake despite clear feedback. These results suggest non-linear pay schemes may help companies select and retain overconfident workers and may reduce the wage bill. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Conducting Business

count up my profits every day, and there’s always cash in the cigar box.” The owner’s loan application was attached to the case as Exhibit 1. Some other financial data showed what rents cost for comparable shop fronts and typical hourly View Details
Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • May 2017
  • Case

Pho Hoa Dorchester

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu
Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts that opened in 1992. As he approached retirement in recent years, the founder/owner has scaled down his involvement in the day-to-day operations, leading to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Pho Hoa; Tam Le; Small Business; Restaurants; Dorchester; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Family Business; Change Management; Transition; Diasporas; Cash Flow; Food; Employment; Wages; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Ownership Stake; Franchise Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Viet Nam; Massachusetts; Boston; Eastern United States
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  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

expanding into high-wage economies in Europe and North America; (2) the company was expanding its presence in China—a country where front-line employees were not used to exercising decision-making authority; and (3) newcomers in the Chinese hotel market were poaching... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

lower-income families. Meanwhile, the resulting profits add to the wealth of the Walton family and their fellow stockholders—a net gain for higher-income families. If one considers only dA, this profit gain could well be more than the View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time, according to... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

and productivity, but also in the labor market, as information access and communication technology changes can be expected to affect the wage distribution in opposite directions," their paper states. The researchers looked at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

offer a different and productive path forward. The philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital
  • 11 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

six-figure salaries, but, Sam said, “We have to be more transparent about pay. These workers need better benefits and more time off. There’s been a range of experiences in construction. We have heard stories about wage theft but,... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

and Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher T., and Catherine Thomas Abstract—New employers in a global online labor market are less likely to hire and, when they do, pay higher hourly wages than employers with market experience. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just beneath them. Using survey data, we show that individuals making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne