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  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Research - Health Care

save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). At... November 2024 Article The Health Costs of Cost Sharing By:... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

transparency, pay equity is being achieved at the cost of high salaries for some—but perhaps it’s worth that tradeoff. “Equity is something that happens when everything is out in the open,” Cullen says. “The firm is more equal, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

meal delivery, and more. Important note: Take care of your support team. Remember it may be cheaper – and more rewarding to all parties concerned – to offer attractive wages and benefits that to incur the switching View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Services 5% Depreciation 3% University Assessments 1% Supplies & Equipment 0% Debt Service Faculty research expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for... View Details
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Benefit New Leaders Experienced Leaders New Leaders have zero to three years of managerial experience and five-plus years of total professional experience. I loved being able to learn the material through real examples and have found that... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

standard called respondeat superior (an executive is responsible for the acts of employees). If almost all the benefit [of a criminal act] goes to the individual, but some—even small benefit—still goes to the company, the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • August 2023
  • Case

Kariyer.net: Recruiting AI

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Fares Khrais and Namrata Arora
In 2017, Fatih Uysal (AMP 2021) became CEO of Kariyer.net. By then, the business was already the industry leading online job board in Turkey. However, faced with stalling growth, a turbulent macroenvironment, and growing competition from international players, Uysal... View Details
Keywords: Online Technology; Marketing; Websites; Artificial Intelligence; Innovation; Two-sided Platforms; Internet and the Web; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Job Search; Employment; Transformation; Volatility; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Management Practices and Processes; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Cost vs Benefits; Macroeconomics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Employment Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; Turkey
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  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

club induction are actually willing to pay to get over the margin and into the club," Larkin says. Importantly, Larkin observed that there were no apparent financial benefits to attaining club membership. Recipients received a gold star... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Blog

Leading Successful Digital Transformation

efficiency of supply chains, and chat bots are used to cut the cost of call centers. While it is always good to reduce costs and improve efficiency, focusing solely on efficiency implicitly assumes that the... View Details
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

strategies for the firm and find market conditions under which the firm would benefit most from implementing BPS. We show that the optimal operating and licensing strategies are driven by the size of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

able to realize the sales before the end of the quarter and thus fulfill their budget goal and make their bonuses. But the high cost of assembling the goods at a distant location—it required not only the rental of the warehouse but also... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Kumar Mahadeva

“What’s different about our business model is that we’ve leveraged the global talent pool, kept our costs low, and stayed on top of new technologies that can benefit our clients.” Mahadeva enjoys being an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

unverifiable. As an experiment for this article, he used several of those resources to find the true cost of a car at a dealership. The prices delivered by the consumer sites didn’t match. “I can’t trust the data,” he says. Can this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

have created, balancing their generosity with the need to keep some of that value for themselves. Achieving this balance may not be as easy as it seems. Keystone organizations must make sure that the value of their platforms, divided by the View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

the benefits of the “work-from-anywhere” movement for both companies and workers. “There’s been brain drain from small towns into large urban clusters, but I don't think we have seen the spatial redistribution that we could potentially... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

incentives to companies, including some that cost nothing to provide, and found that appetite for these workers increased substantially. In particular, providing objective performance information about workers with a criminal record... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants to show that awards can carry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne