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  • 05 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS

even as an entrepreneur. It would have made me even more excited about going! I knew that HBS would be a great place to interact and build great relationships with some of the brightest minds and hardest workers in business; I thought it... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

people who train at our expense.” His final volley was, “Labor cost is not what makes us noncompetitive, stupidity is.” Perhaps the most striking suggestion came from a representative of the Independent Workers Party of Chicago: “The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 08 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

they are not executed well at the stores." Boots on the ground matter a lot. "When there aren't enough workers on the selling floor, it's those ‘boring supply-chain activities' that are affected first," Ton observes. "If employees are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

the open source community are often intrinsically motivated. It is important to realize, however, that hackers are a diverse group. I have interviewed hobbyists, students, academics, software professionals, and government workers who... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have created a suite of products... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Post-Office

start seeing the strategic benefits of remote work? Prashanth Chandrasekar: There’s actually been, in some ways, a rise in productivity because people are able to focus and be very efficient with their time. We have not seen any kind of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

international competition means we should expect industries to come and go. Even if this is sometimes painful, it is, in fact, a healthy process by which resources flow to their most productive uses. When a commons erodes, however, it... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

Courtesy Peet’s Courtesy Peet’s Ketchup. Potato chips. Chewing gum. Coffee. “These are products that everyone can relate to, that people understand,” says Casey Keller (MBA 1989), a longtime executive in consumer-packaged goods with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • Web

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
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

information-driven model by gaining a better understanding of product and customer relationships." Dean Vella cited Walmart's innovation in supply chain management and sustainability as ways in which it is reducing the friction... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 19 Sep 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

when their employees are naturally proactive. When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat? Companies pay close attention when a competitor drops out of the market. Too often, though, they come to the wrong conclusion. Hiding From Managers Can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)

production of The Usurer’s Grip , a fifteen-minute silent film about a family man who falls into the clutches of a loan shark, only to be redeemed by a paternalistic businessman who directs him to the nearest Credit Union for a loan on... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

about the history of bioethanol producers. Our findings show that plants founded during the industrial policy program tend to be, in the long run, more productive than those founded before the program was in place. Based on additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • 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
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