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    How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health

    John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a veteran of the real estate industry, was studying ways to make workplaces safer for employees long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Now that issues like air and water quality are top of... View Details
    • 11 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Employers Favor Men

    important.” [Image: MachineHeadz] Clarification This article orginally included the sentence: "Women earn about 78 cents on the dollar compared to men." The line has been amended to include attribution. Related Reading: Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Overview

    By: Ethan C. Rouen
    Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
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    Giving - Alumni

    individual retirement account (IRA) to make a gift to HBS of up to $105,000 per year. Special one-time opportunity: You can make a gift of up to $53,000 from your IRA to establish a Harvard gift annuity that will pay you annual income for... View Details
    • 11 Jun 2024
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

    As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • September 2024
    • Article

    Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19

    By: Livia Alfonsi, Mary Namubiru and Sara Spaziani
    We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the lockdowns imposed in Uganda reduced employment by 69% for women and by 45% for men,... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Wage Gap; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Wages; Uganda
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    Alfonsi, Livia, Mary Namubiru, and Sara Spaziani. "Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19." Review of Economics of the Household 22, no. 3 (September 2024): 999–1046.
    • November 2020 (Revised March 2022)
    • Teaching Note

    Social Salary Setting at Spiber

    By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 920-050. The case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company’s values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; General Management; Employee Benefits; Incentives; Motivation; Compensation and Benefits; Fairness; Motivation and Incentives; Management; Happiness; Negotiation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Japan
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    Whillans, Ashley, and John Beshears. "Social Salary Setting at Spiber." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-014, November 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
    • May 5, 2020
    • Article

    Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent

    By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
    There has been a massive shift in how work gets done inside many companies and the global pivot to working remotely will likely change how many think about face time and rigid work schedules. Might these changes benefit women? The authors argue that will depend on how... View Details
    Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Flexible Work Arrangements; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Gender
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    Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. "Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 5, 2020).
    • August 14, 2020
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    How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen and Christopher T. Stanton
    As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches toward its third quarter, loss of health insurance coverage has not figured prominently in the public debate. Data in this report demonstrate why that is, but also suggest that the apparent stability is fragile, with potentially... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Small Business; Surveys; United States
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    Dafny, Leemore S., Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen, and Christopher T. Stanton. "How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey." NEJM Catalyst (August 14, 2020). (Commentary.)
    • December 2006
    • Case

    Vipp A/S

    By: Robert D. Austin and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms: Trash bins. Examines how the company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Creativity; Product Design; Luxury; Brands and Branding
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    Austin, Robert D., and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Vipp A/S." Harvard Business School Case 607-052, December 2006.
    • February 1998 (Revised December 1998)
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    Atlantic Energy/Delmarva Power & Light (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mathew M Millett and Tracy Aronson
    Delmarva Power & Light and Atlantic Energy are neighboring electric utilities based in Delaware and New Jersey, respectively. In early 1996, they entered into merger negotiations, but were unable to reach an agreement on price because they could not agree on what... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Negotiation Offer; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Utilities Industry; Delaware; New Jersey
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    Esty, Benjamin C., Mathew M Millett, and Tracy Aronson. "Atlantic Energy/Delmarva Power & Light (A)." Harvard Business School Case 298-034, February 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
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    Audit Personnel Salaries and Audit Quality

    By: Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli and Joseph H. Schroeder
    This study examines the relation between audit personnel salaries and office-level audit quality. We measure audit personnel salaries at the associate, senior, and manager ranks for Big 4 audit offices from 2004 to 2013, using unique individual-auditor-level data... View Details
    Keywords: Audit Personnel Salary; Audit Quality; Salary Determinants; Audit Fees; Accounting Audits; Quality; Wages
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    Hoopes, Jeffrey L., Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli, and Joseph H. Schroeder. "Audit Personnel Salaries and Audit Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 23, no. 3 (September 2018): 1096–1136.
    • April 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

    By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 620-024. Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Science-Based Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    Toffel, Michael W., and James Barnett. "Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 620-075, April 2020.

      Code.org

      During a break after starting and selling several successful technology based startups, Hadi Partovi decided to make a short film to inspire students to learn computer science. “Code.org started as a hobby project,” Hadi said. “I had helped pay my way through... View Details

      • August 2021
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      Business Education as If People and the Planet Really Matter

      By: Andrew J. Hoffman
      Mounting concern over capitalism’s inability to address systemic challenges in our natural world (i.e. climate change) and social world (i.e. income inequality) is prompting reexamination of capitalism within business groups. This article argues that a concurrent... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Business Education; Transformation
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      Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education as If People and the Planet Really Matter." Strategic Organization 19, no. 3 (August 2021): 513–525.
      • August 2023
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      What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and Asian economies allows us to compare long-run patterns in skill premiums across the colonial... View Details
      Keywords: Skill Premium; Human Capital; Wages; History; Education; Africa; Asia
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia." Economic History Review 76, no. 3 (August 2023): 941–978.
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      Enfranchisement of Service Workers

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Heskett
      Enfranchisement is achieved through an integration of empowerment with methods of pay for performance. Evidence from Ito Yokado Group in Japan and Nordstrom in the US demonstrates the positive effects of enfranchisement. Successful efforts to enfranchise employees: 1.... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Franchise Ownership; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Japan; United States
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      Schlesinger, Leonard A., and James Heskett. "Enfranchisement of Service Workers." California Management Review 33, no. 4 (Summer 1991).
      • October 1995
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      Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects

      By: James J. Anton and Dennis Yao
      We examine the incentive problem confronting a firm and employee when the employee privately discovers a significant invention and faces a choice between keeping the invention private and leaving the firm to form a new company (start-up), or transferring knowledge and... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Rights; Employees; Innovation and Invention; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Sharing; Capital; Profit
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      Anton, James J., and Dennis Yao. "Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 11, no. 2 (October 1995): 362–378. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
      • 19 Feb 2013
      • News

      Big Deal: Reflections on the American and US Airways Megamerger

      • 07 Jun 2023
      • HBS Case

      3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

      understood what people were really willing to pay for,” Karp says. “Having great features is different than having features that will incentivize people to use your product.” As mixed economic signals and the rise of artificial... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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