Employee Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If chief executives and chief financial officers are goaded into spending that cash, the economy could View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

consumers, students, local communities, and representatives of government. Historian Gonzalo Montiel Roig notes that photographic archives “linked to large steelmaking industries have a dual purpose . . . of documenting the industrial process and constructing a... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

GE's Jeff Immelt

employees with investors.” For students planning early career strategies, Immelt had these words of advice: “When you join a company, find somebody you trust. I had mentors early in my career who helped me out a lot. Always be dedicated... View Details

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

later you have to generate sufficient profit to support market expectations. The problem is, if top management pushes too hard for profit and doesn't have the right controls in place, employees may start to do dumb things like misstating... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

A Culture of Innovation Photo: Edwin Land from “The Purpose of the Company,” employee handbook, 1945. Polaroid Corporation Administrative Records, b. I.384, f. 30. Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, embraced two central concepts for his... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in the company has grown by 370... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

01 Dec 1997
News

Short Takes

instead of companies, and agencies provide some of the health and other employee benefits once supplied by corporations. Bradach hopes to learn whether the flexibility model represents a lasting shift in how... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

other companies and executives that went remote during the pandemic and are still scared to ask their employees to come back to the office. They don’t want to fight with their employees and risk losing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

May 2024
Supplement

DRSi (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; Washington (state, US); United States

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Purchase

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

Protection Act of 2006, which mandated in part that employees be automatically enrolled in a pension plan upon hiring and must choose to opt out rather than opt in—Bohnet, Bazerman, and van Geen decided to apply the theory to evaluation... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the entrenchment benefits vary according to initial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program). Health plans could choose to cover more services and treatments for competitive reasons, but they could not be forced to do so by lawsuits. This change would... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

placement around this sales cutoff. Moreover, managers appear to exploit this by manipulating sales to be just over the cutoff in favorable industries. Further evidence suggests that managers then engage in activities to realize large, tangible View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

extraordinary start to my time at HBS. I can't imagine not having had the experience; it's a perfect fit with Foundations." Faculty, MBA Program staff, and other HBS employees all played active roles as facilitators, coordinators, and... View Details

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

behemoth’s corporate culture as it collided with the #MeToo movement’s spotlight on sexual relationships and power in the workplace. And as new information about Easterbrook’s romantic relationship with other employees emerged, it became... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior View Details

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

performance on business-relevant ESG issues based on a firm’s industry membership has a positive association with future financial performance. A company’s efforts to improve its social impact could result in cost savings, increased brand value, innovation, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

goals probably, but definitely commercial too. Businesses are here to make money. So we have ambitious goals that are energizing to everybody. It also has a sense of duties that we here have duties to our customers, to our communities, to our View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

been normatively accepted in a country or industry, the more it benefits a firm’s market valuation and revenue. These findings demonstrate the importance of the broader social contexts in shaping the consequences of gender diversity.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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