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- 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
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
to better connections rather than superior skill. Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. Coupled with a growing race to the bottom in wages and benefits, this workplace erosion of trust could negatively affect... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
fund Sachem Head Capital, led by founder Scott Ferguson, launched an activist campaign at computer aided design (CAD) software maker Autodesk. The activist campaign, waged mainly in private, was over Autodesk's lackluster financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
published poetry and their joint love for music. After a tragic shipwreck tore them apart, Kate’s life dramatically shifted focus. She waged a battle against misogyny to help provide women with the education they deserved. Compelling and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
although they received significantly lower levels of labor income than their native born counterparts. Overall, the contribution of foreign born inventors to U.S. innovation was substantial, but we also find evidence of an immigrant inventor View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
corridors and lobbies). As offices get smaller, a number like 250 square feet per person is becoming more typical. From a salary point of view, in Massachusetts, the gross wages for job titles like advertising sales agent, tax preparer,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
School US Competitiveness Project has pointed out, has an adverse effect on wages and competitiveness. Of course, there is always a catalyst for a sudden downturn on markets. Today, a sudden and disorderly reversal of globalization could... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
more, inflation-adjusted wages stalled for many, even as consumer spending increased. Where did the money for all this spending come from? Companies borrowed, governments borrowed, and families borrowed. Savings rates approached zero.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
underlying social contract. A second union was quickly organized, and it took a far more adversarial approach, demanding higher wages and insisting on job guarantees. Local suppliers saw the company as untrustworthy and refused to do... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
deal because the offer is well below what Southeastern believes is Dell Inc.'s intrinsic value. Southeastern, along with activist investor Carl Icahn, wage a campaign to defeat the go-private deal and propose a leveraged recapitalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
look at the statistics, real wage growth among working-class Americans has been relatively stagnant,” said Kaplan. Meanwhile, “the cost of everything a middle-class family pays for — food, energy, education, and health care — has gone... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign' Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation 13, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $66 billion CSD industry in the United States, where the average American consumes 52 gallons of CSD per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle," from 1975 to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50854 Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
is extremely serious and just keeps creeping up on us. Critics blame globalization for putting U.S. wages and benefits into a downward spiral. How do we reverse that trend? The idea that we should disengage from the global economy is... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
all involved in the company's supply chain with fair wages as well as improved working hours and conditions. Called Plan A "because there is no Plan B," the company identified 180 projects to improve the sustainability of its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel