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Workplace Diversity: Data Sources
Where can I find data on diversity in the workplace and labor markets? Resource Type Resource Description US. Government Agencies US Equal Opportunity Commission “Job Patterns For Minorities And Women In Private Industry”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000 doctors by 2025. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) course recently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Emeritus, and William Meckling. Capitalism has been reeling ever since. That’s the view of Roger Martin (MBA ’81) in his new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL (Harvard Business Review Press). Martin is dean of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival
create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious... View Details
- 01 May 2006
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What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
exacerbated if the manager has little or no control over the information that the labor market sees (i.e., is mandated beyond the manager's control). Q: Given the current debate about financial transparency,... View Details
- October 1984
- Case
Transition from Contract to Consensus at General Motors
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "Transition from Contract to Consensus at General Motors." Harvard Business School Case 385-168, October 1984.
- July 1979 (Revised December 1984)
- Case
Coal Strike of 1977-78 (C)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (C)." Harvard Business School Case 679-133, July 1979. (Revised December 1984.)
- October 1982 (Revised September 1986)
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Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A) (Condensed)
By: D. Quinn Mills
Mills, D. Quinn. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 683-053, October 1982. (Revised September 1986.)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details