Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

just given it—conditional versus unconditional. Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit, and Das Narayandas, the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, explain what kind of bump managers can expect from... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

01 Jun 2009
News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried paternalistically to guarantee good jobs have, in the past decade, been blasted in the products... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

Summing Up Paul Jackson sums up the thinking of most respondents to this month's column with the comment, " . . . nothing about CEO compensation seems to be 'efficient.'" Brad Millet adds, "The CEO market for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Oct 2020
News

Finance in the Time of COVID-19

17 May 2018
News

Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

support his family. He heard about the I Create program and signed up. Having noticed a growth in agriculture in the region, Samad was intent on finding his niche in the industry. After conducting market research and consulting with a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

18 Jan 2012
News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey findings More US Competitiveness Surveys RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey findings More US Competitiveness Surveys HBS alumni overwhelmingly... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Digging Deep

solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2020
News

Money Matters

For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

learn more about HBS Clubs and club activities in your area, please visit www.clubhub.hbs.org/. In October, Alvin Roth, a member of the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit and Harvard University's Department of... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Faculty Books

Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2008
News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

December 16, 2020. Summing up last month’s column My column last month about job training inequality and economic growth sparked many insightful comments about the role of markets as arbiters of fairness and the nature of competition for... View Details