Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,379) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,379) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 56 of 2,379 Results →
  • Web

Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Key Stakeholders We advocate that the goal of any health care system should be to increase the value it delivers to patients. This is the underlying thesis of Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

While attention to business environment issues is important for all automakers, GM is more likely than most of its rivals to feel strong pressure to pursue public policy goals such as domestic employment that are not normally pursued by... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 04 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

A number of studies have suggested that US workers waste between one and two hours a day web surfing, costing their companies billions in lost productivity. In response, some employers have banned private Internet use at the office, a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Culture at Google

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Amy Klopfenstein and Sarah Mehta
Beginning in 2017, technology (tech) company Google faced a series of employee-relations issues that threatened its unique culture of innovation and open communication. Issues included protests surrounding Google’s contracts with the U.S. government, restrictions of... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Resignation and Termination; Labor; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Wages; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict Management; Trust; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Society; Social Issues; Culture; Civil Society or Community; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States; California
Related
  • Web

The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

forthcoming issue of American Journal of Sociology. Why M&A prompts promotions Zhang analyzed 37,343 mergers and acquisitions that occurred between 1971 and 2015, using data from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

see-saw, many people still deal with COVID disruptions. Many people are still undergoing deep introspection about their life direction—and considering significant changes (in other words, quitting). People want more meaning from their work. The informational power... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

and from its employment of nationals at senior levels. The upshot, seen in the case of the EU, was that Unilever had a "voice" in issues that concerned it, even if it was exercised discreetly through industry and other... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

appropriate for employers to decrease workloads for now and reevaluate when working hours should return to normal, says Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration. Her... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

requires greater access to education, health care, and employment resources; at the same time, you might be trying to influence public policy on issues that affect the homeless. That involves a whole set of interrelated activities that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

wireless—varies dramatically by location, especially when comparing urban and low-density locations, but even when comparing one city to another. On a different dimension, the types of employment affiliated with implementing frontier... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 44. White, p. 517. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
  • Web

1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

E. Kahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), p. 175. Ibid., pp. 188–192. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
  • Web

Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

World. She has taught at Harvard and Cambridge, and is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for History and Economics. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
  • Web

Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

government helped subsidize U.S. Steel efforts including the development of new blast and open-hearth furnaces. U.S. Steel doubled the output of raw materials, constructed new steel plants, rehired retired workers, and reused obsolete equipment. View Details
  • Web

Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Reformer , New York: Arno Press, 1956, p. 258. Chandler, Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer . New York: Arno Press, 1956, p. 247. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University View Details
  • October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko
In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details
Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States
Related
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

Ten years before Harvard Business School published its first case study, activists across Europe celebrated the first International Women’s Day. They demanded, among other things, the right for women to hold public office and an end to View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 13 Jan 2023 - 14 Jan 2023
  • Conference Presentation

India’s Quest for Sustainable Growth in a New Global Reality:: The Need for a Region- and Sector-Driven Approach

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Sustainable Growth; Economic Development; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Employment; India
Related