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- 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
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Michael Raiche, and Roger Zhu. "Pho Hoa Dorchester." Harvard Business School Case 317-121, May 2017.
- 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
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
middle," as Professor Michael Porter terms it. That is, China and India are taking all the businesses (manufacturing and services) on the low end (as their GDPs/capita and wages are lower) while they really don't compete yet with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
Dalmia Polypro setting a price for raw untreated plastic, and buyers like Hindustan Unilever committed to buying the processed recycled plastic, individual wage workers are supplying their inputs. Independent waste pickers make roughly... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
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
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
employed mothers are more likely to be employed, more likely to hold supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers were home full time. The effects on labor market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
probably before, Bohemian glass wages were just a fifth of ours. "Beggar-thy-Neighbor" was scarcely a derisive term in the glass business, for as de Tocqueville pointed out in 1832, we were blessed with a comparatively large internal... 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real wages for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
people moving from rural provinces to work in coastal-region factories, this status translated into officially sanctioned lower wages and poorly monitored working conditions. This system is now under assault by the AFL-CIO, which regards... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
that performance measure look more favorable. Surprisingly, this extra work can be dysfunctional from a firm's perspective, especially when labor markets are most competitive. In a hot labor market, a firm will lose employees to its competitors unless it meets the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1759545 When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
DaVita Responds to COVID
By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States
Gallani, Susanna, and David Lane. "DaVita Responds to COVID." Harvard Business School Case 122-007, March 2022. (Revised March 2024.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
of success were no longer the same as they were a decade ago. "Asian wages are rising rapidly," Porter said. Other nations are restructuring their economies and offering an alternative to Asia as an outsourcing location. The key today is... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
show that the empirical results are driven entirely by newly eligible households that did not enroll, suggesting uninsured risk from leaving wage employment is the primary barrier to entrepreneurship for this population. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne