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  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market reallocation shifts the revenue and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

employment and wage data across European clusters. The data is used to analyze whether cluster presence is significantly correlated with higher wages, which, as an indicator of higher productivity, are likely to signal the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

Health Benefit Exchanges (HBEs)-in which individuals and small employers could choose from a set of easy-to-compare, tightly regulated health plans. This case explores how Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey would have to decide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

the growth of younger companies and revitalize large corporations through partnerships with innovative SMEs; 3) improving the match between education and employment opportunities, through apprenticeship programs and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

lifelong employer due to global competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

Increasingly, the case method is being used to teach sophisticated techniques like valuation, forecasting, and competitive analysis. These techniques are essential to modern business literacy and are required for employment at investment... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

exporter, had thus far avoided public scrutiny. The company was a key source of employment in many rural communities, had extensive experience negotiating the complex Indonesian regulatory environment, and was moving to certify its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

provides rich insights into how contracts between labels and artists are structured and how advances in technology are impacting the music industry and its players. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511031-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

of a key employee who has other offers of employment and is negotiating a stay-put bonus. The rights and interests of the surety company that provided the construction bond are also interwoven. The protagonist is the CEO of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

electoral participation. Negative shocks to income and rates of employment are also associated with increases in closure activity within counties over time. We interpret these results as consistent with involuntary consumer account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being dictated by government View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

only three orthopaedic subspecialties still in some match program. This has created an extremely complicated hiring environment for all residents. This paper focuses on the current state of fellowship employment and hiring in orthopaedic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

navigate employer pressures regarding who they are and who they can be outside of work. Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid consider how the attunement to power dynamics affects organisational effectiveness and organisational change.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

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

studies. In 2016, 15 McDonald’s employees filed complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that they had been sexually harassed. And then the #MeToo movement emerged in 2017, raising awareness of sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain both the standard deviations of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

intervened ruthlessly (and sometimes unfairly) when he saw profits suffer. After thirty years, when his little seventy-person firm became one of the largest industrial operations and employers in Germany, he again established a central... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

for the time we reasonably need to get things done,” Whillans says. Gracefully bow out of extraneous activities. Many employers are trying to help their employees unwind by scheduling virtual coffee breaks, lunch gatherings, and happy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

region-industry level from agglomeration within clusters. We find that, after controlling for the impact of convergence at the narrowest unit of analysis, there is strong evidence for cluster-driven agglomeration. Industries participating in a strong cluster register... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

increase in domestic investment, employment or R@amp;D—even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions and for firms that appeared to be financially constrained. Instead, a $1 increase in repatriations was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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