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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
provide micro-evidence consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Labor View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
businesses have developed codes of conduct and monitoring systems to ensure that working conditions in their supply chain factories meet global labor standards. Many observers have questioned whether these codes of conduct have any impact... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the labor market but do not result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—The author, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
basis of a number of labor market clearinghouses around the world and have recently been implemented in school choice systems in Boston and New York City. In addition, the study of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details
- June 2017
- Article
Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency
By: Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim and Chia-Jung Tsay
We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact... View Details
Keywords: Operational Transparency; Service Management; Production Management; Organizational Performance; Behavioral Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Labor; Organizational Design; Operations; Service Industry; United States; Kenya
Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay. "Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency." Management Science 63, no. 6 (June 2017): 1673–1695.
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund managers to incorporate ESG... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
of respondents reported optimism about their chances of surviving the crisis. However, only 70 percent of them expressed interest in pursuing such government subsidies. Cullen, an assistant professor at HBS who researches labor View Details
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So discovered HBS professor Boris... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
exodus. Generational expectations about what makes a good job are changing, employees are fatigued from the year-long pandemic and there are labor shortages everywhere. Employees have had the time and space to think about what really... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
a former assistant of his from setting up shop in the same town. But judges in the fifteenth century did not look favorably upon noncompetes, as the Bubonic plague had largely decimated the European labor supply. Legislation of the time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details