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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
majority of patents (especially in manufacturing). We also offer evidence that the suppliers’ conceptual attributes are higher for SC industries, which is consistent with their greater innovative activity. Finally, we find that employment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Abstract Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial skills is the ability to understand which tools will work in a given... 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
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52330... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
future employment opportunities). However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift-by offering a raise (with no additional conditions) after the employee has accepted the contract-does lead to higher productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
my employer to know all these things? That to me is in a whole different class of information. Kenny: Let's talk a little bit about Facebook's leadership model. You've got Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO. He's got Sheryl Sandberg.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
business plans, and key personnel ignited a bi-coastal battle between two fierce rivals that was played out in courts competing for jurisdiction and states with diametrically opposed laws and public policies concerning non-competition agreements. The enforceability of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
by the enormous improvements going on in other countries. It used to be that the wages of US workers rose in line with domestic productivity, but the two became decoupled. Some attribute that to declining unionization. That may be part of it, but much has to do with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
into round holes. Employers have commonly sought to solve that motivation problem in one way: money. By using "pay-for-performance" schemes that reward workers for hitting targets in a project, they seek to provide that extra... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
its government relations and operations. Similarly, the employment Tata Consultancy Services brought to Uruguay enabled the company to receive fast-tracked visas for employees traveling from India. At home, Tata Group filled voids in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
information on workers), and COMPUSTAT (detailed firm information, plus average wage and employment levels). Through controls and instrumental variable probes, we rule out straightforward compositional churning as an explanation for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
employment in the corporate staff per se. Results suggest that once people receive the "corporate imprimatur" on their network structures, they retain it even when they move back to the line organization. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- First Look
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