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- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
Now a new look at the issue makes the case for selective protective acts as a way of avoiding the disruptions to businesses and labor associated with a free trade policy that rewards and penalizes businesses with increasing speed. (These... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
industry: labor organizing. For decades, noncompete clauses were written into job contracts to help protect companies from losing intellectual property by restricting when and where employees could work after they departed their current... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
force-sensing technology—which allows a bot to “feel” its way through tasks (and around objects)—ensure that the robots operate with both safety and accuracy. But the robots also possess that most important coworker trait: They’re not trying to steal your job. “The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades from 1947 to 1997. Around 2001, both those indicators of the... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
expect net labor costs for manufacturing in China and the United States to converge by around 2015. As a result of the changing economics, you’re going to see a lot more products ‘Made in the USA’ over the next five years.” Even now some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
single-country economy, and our labor pool is one of the best-educated, most productive, and most innovative in the world,” China Radio International’s CRIenglish.com reported (September 10, 2011). View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
will require support for women at every level of the labor force. “We really are at a turning point for the global economy,” Collenette adds. “Post-pandemic, either we fashion a world where women take their rightful place in every seat at... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
is whether these efforts overlook a much larger job crisis ahead, one involving the service sector. The focus of attention is on a sector of the American economy that employs 12.3 million people, down from about 17.3 million in 2000, a 29 percent decline. According to... View Details
- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,” says Bhargava, “otherwise tens of millions of young Indians who have a dream for the new and emerging India will be disappointed and disheartened, and India would have lost a... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
relationship. With operations primarily online, their major expenses are technology and advertising. Labor costs are miniscule, because the workers who create revenue are independent contractors. In contrast, traditionally structured... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
to Australian citizens. That sounded reasonable, but many of the new ventures were software companies that had to compete globally with firms that used inexpensive labor in places like Bangalore. Whatever the desirability of the policy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
on standardized tests can be found here. Zoë Cullen studies the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations" will be presided over by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
to HBS to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a graduate degree and never expected to become a professor. But in a remarkable HBS career that has spanned four decades and... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
unavoidable, research by HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton suggests that retailers should make labor decisions thoughtfully. "Many retailers see labor more as a cost driver than a sales driver." Her advice:... View Details