Employee Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

And Gerald Nanninga posed the interesting question: "Have we limited our potential by not only mislabeling potential partners as 'customers' but in mislabeling everyone in the entire supply chain?" What do you think? Original Article The Internet and View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

value system. Closely related to unconscious bias is affinity bias in which people tend to gravitate towards others who look, act, and think as they do. In recruiting specifically, unconscious bias and affinity bias often express... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

capitalization of firms in their coverage portfolio. Our results hold after Regulation Fair Disclosure, suggesting that these relationships are not based on selective disclosure. Overall, the evidence shows both the importance and limitations of professional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

contribution rates differ between employees hired before versus after the Roth introduction, which means that the amount of retirement consumption being purchased by 401(k) contributions increases after the Roth introduction. A survey... View Details

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

leaking out of the company" (Armstrong 1993). The committee focused on two options: (1) to begin aggressively litigating those who try to leave with new technologies and (2) to invest in people trying to leave Xerox. Owing to variations in View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations' "excess" cash... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

07 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events

from “day in the life” perspective from recent interns or current full-time employees working in a job that may be available Detail your company’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Diverse representation in recruiting... View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Complexities of Business-Customer Relationships Applying the Reflective Leadership Questions Ethical Practices with Business Customers Featured Exercises Examine gray-area decisions related to customers Apply the reflective leadership... View Details

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

another potential peril of referral-based hiring. Beyond ending up with a homogenous workforce, managers who hire candidates who already know other employees might have to work harder to get these candidates to collaborate with people... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

measure. The possibility of value incommensurability is thought to raise deep questions about practical reason and rational choice as well as related questions concerning topics as diverse as akrasia, moral dilemmas, the plausibility of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

inspired New England's high-tech boom and the spread of companies that began to populate Route 128 surrounding Boston and Cambridge. A number of ARD employees also went on to start their own venture capital firms: William Elfers (HBS MBA... View Details

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

encourages employees to bring their full selves to work and highlights the available support systems. Offer Alternative Application Processes Companies can also review their application processes to identify opportunities to be more... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

employees much more effectively—creating high-performance teams reliably, matching people to projects that fit both their skills and their interests, and dramatically increasing the probability that work will be productively creative. We... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September 2003
Case

Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc

By: V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu and Lisa Brem

Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members charged with adequately rewarding executives were forced to compete with rising packages of salaries and stock... View Details

Keywords: Design; Stock Options; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Netherlands; United States

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Educators

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

and market new programs and services, such as certification in "bodywork" (massage and related practices) and holistic health instruction, as well as a new program that focuses on preventive health care. "This is an incredible... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

Concepts Determining Your Beachhead Customer Decoding the Decision-Making Unit Mapping the Buying Journey Featured Exercises Build a customer persona and related buyer journey Map employees to their specific... View Details

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

stages: Compliance: In this initial phase, companies often start with activities related to complying with regulations. Activities are not strategic or centralized. In addition to compliance, employees may... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

“suggesting that many businesses expect this to extend well beyond their current cash.” Survey respondents indicated that demand shocks and employee health concerns have been more disruptive than the supply chain problems that are more... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

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