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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
multinational buyers. We find that supplier factories are more likely to comply when they are embedded in states that are active participants in the International Labour Organization treaty regime and that have highly protective domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Brett Laffel
job? HBS has helped me become a better speaker and enunciate my thoughts more clearly. I believe this will be important in any job. Also, HBS has given me confidence to take on higher level challenges. Coming from a non-traditional... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
accessible corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written archives are accessible. Oral histories provide insights into why events did not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
levels of management was a theme running through several comments. As Dennis Nelson put it, "When an organization knows on what investments its existence depends, and the various returns on its investments, resource allocation from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
might serve the study of consumer behavior. An HBS professor since 1991, Zaltman's work actually cuts across a number of boundaries. He's a co-director (with Stephen M. Kosslyn, Professor of psychology at Harvard University) of the Mind of the Market lab, a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes achieved per dollar spent . HBS Professors Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter detail how time-driven activity-based costing can be used to accurately measure costs at the patient level for the span of an entire medical condition.... View Details
- Web
IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
enough? Is there a point at which support stifles innovation? How sustainable is the level of support? The course will address these questions, examining the challenges of ensuring growth and long-term success on a global stage. Through... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
R&D," explains Yeo. "A short time later, I set up the EDB's Singapore Bio Innovation Fund to invest longterm in overseas start-ups to learn as much as possible about the nascent biotech industry. And on June 26, 2000, the day the United View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
also find decreasing forecast errors for voluntary adopters, but this effect is smaller and not robust. Moreover, we show that the magnitude of the forecast errors decrease is associated with the firm-specific differences between local GAAP and IFRS. Exploiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
expertise that dedicated people gave to their work; it was just at a different level and skill set, and with a broader range of impacts,” she says. Shortly after, Nick was offered the chance to attend the HBS Advanced Management Program.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
substantial growth, because it looks as though they have been foregoing opportunities,” explains Kim. Whether a tech startup or a pet shop, small businesses are a major economic force, contributing 44 percent of gross domestic product in the United View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
level of trust that is not founded on the data,” Minor says. Companies would be wise to learn what forms the level of trust others have in them, he says. “The first step is identifying, whatever field you’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
expenses to a level of $11 million less than originally planned. Major savings came in maintaining lower staffing levels, trimming costs in Executive Education and HBS Publishing, and deferring a number of discretionary maintenance... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
would our world look like if we could have US levels of electricity available at affordable prices for every person on the planet for 1,000 years?" Lassiter says. "We should be working on nuclear like there is no tomorrow. We should do... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
books, is enormous. Later in this chapter, we've modeled the levels of gross margin or same-store sales declines, which, everything else equal, retailers in categories particularly hard hit by eCommerce could incur before their stores are... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
of improvement, rather than changes in income level or displacement of residents over time.) Education is a catalyst for neighborhood improvement What did seem to matter the most were two factors: population density and education. “The... View Details
- August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Technical Note
A Note on Compensation
By: Ethan Bernstein and Michael Norris
This note provides an overview of the important terms, concepts, and frameworks that a manager should know about compensation—whether it be their own or that of an employee. Because compensation in practice is fraught with pitfalls, this note presents an overview of... View Details
Keywords: Compensation Design; Benefits; Perks; Variable Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Profit Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Labor Unions; Wages; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Michael Norris. "A Note on Compensation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 419-020, August 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
tapped a new pool of workers that were often highly motivated. The pledges made to the W2W Partnership fit existing corporate activities and could become part of an existing business function—in the case of W2W, human resources. The national partnership was mirrored at... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter