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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
At the PSA Corporation’s Pasir Panjang container terminal in Singapore, the cranes operate automatically: no drivers, just operators remotely controlling up to six of the lifting machines with a single joystick. Welcome to the most advanced port in the world — and the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to convert today's manual laborers to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
a manageable set of objectives. The design rules ensure that the results of this division of labor can be reassembled into a functioning, improved—and improvable—whole. What's more, the value of both the... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
system negotiate. “Workers on the market have lots of feedback on their past jobs, and can also see how much experience the employer has on the market,” says Christopher T. Stanton, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Translation? EQ—the hardest leadership skill to build. Many people reading this will be managers of teams or groups. How can they best support these ideas? We did a study when I was at Walmart comparing stores with identical sales, square... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard and deep look at what’s happening in terms of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
from conservatives. "Historically, the United States has always risen to face its greatest challenges," says Dean Nitin Nohria. "The message from business and labor to our political leaders is clear: We must make the word compromise an... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
market value of all CEOs is driven by companies hiring leadership from the outside rather than promoting it from within. In other words, there is a market premium paid for outside hires. Hiring from outside often occurs either in organizations with little View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Oct 2016
- News
The Table: Closing the Skills Gap
- 22 Apr 2015
- News
"Frothy" Is a Relative Term
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
her clients keep an even keel by meeting periodically with each one. “I give them a book that I put together especially for them,” she said. “It shows how each manager and the whole account has done; that helps the client feel organized... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew The facts of the ever-widening tech labor shortage are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the United States, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw... View Details
- October 1997
- Case
John A. McCarthy, Jr.
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Todd M. Harris, A. Lanham Napier and John Sisson
Seven years after graduation, an MBA grad accepts the COO position in a company he's never heard of in an industry he knows nothing about. Moving up a vertical learning curve, he is involved in a crisis, and exposed to change and people management. He also must develop... View Details
Keywords: Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Leadership Development; Labor and Management Relations; Business Strategy; Management Teams
Uyterhoeven, Hugo, Todd M. Harris, A. Lanham Napier, and John Sisson. "John A. McCarthy, Jr." Harvard Business School Case 398-038, October 1997.
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
fundamental ways. In his blog on marketing issues, Professor John Quelch discusses why marketers must start planning today to reach consumers after the recession. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6139.html. Professional Networks in China and America While American View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a... View Details