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  • 04 Jun 2008
  • News

Whistle While You Work

he makes presentations before corporate and business-school audiences that link music to business (www.jazz-impact.com). “Jazz musicians are entrepreneurs,” Gold says, adding that they are like managers in today’s business world “who are... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • News

Exploring the Future of Work for Women

managers to convene with experts and scholars to explore what the future holds for working women. The conference was organized by the HBS Club of India in partnership with the HBS-India Research Center. “There have been other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay

By: Jillian Berry Jaeker and Anita Tucker
We use two years of inpatient data from 243 California hospitals to quantify the relationship between hospital-level workload and patient length of stay (LOS), and its "spillover" effects across patient types. Patients are categorized as medical or surgical, and the... View Details
Keywords: Workload; Processing Times; Healthcare; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Time Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California
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  • 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
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  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report

goes beyond financials to describe a number of new programs and initiatives designed to keep HBS at the forefront of management research and participant-centered learning. The Healthcare Initiative, for example, is a multidisciplinary... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2020
  • Book

Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]

By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda
Authored at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this book is the result of an international collaboration between twelve female academics who apply their expertise to offer a blueprint for a more resilient, dignified, and sustainable society. The extension of... View Details
Keywords: Society; Economics; Labor; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Ethics
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  • October 1985
  • Article

Further Thoughts on the Power of Alternatives: An Example from Labor-Management Negotiations in Major League Baseball

By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Labor and Management Relations; Negotiation; Entertainment; Sports Industry
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  • 29 Apr 2022
  • News

Clean Slate

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her second act as chairman and founder... View Details
Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

How can you negotiate when the rules suddenly change, and no one knows whether your particular market is headed up or down? Regrouping from the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to failed labor negotiations, National Hockey League... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

says Ferri. There is the question of how to best align the interests of management and shareholders to incentivize long-term performance. Then there's the larger debate over the government's role in issuing limits on the huge pay... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers in host-country labor markets and the use of social benefits by immigrants. The survey then considers the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

PalmSource 2005

By: David B. Yoffie and Barbara Mack
PalmSource is facing stiff competition from handheld, wireless handheld, and smart phone vendors in 2005. In addition, changes in leadership and corporate structure have altered its relationship with its leading customer--PalmOne. Although Palm renews its license with... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy; Alliances; Software; Market Participation; Wireless Technology; Trends; Working Conditions; Change Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 28 Feb 2014
  • News

Celebrating the Back-up Singers of the Business World

  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Green as Gold

though, and you’ll find that Hamilton has been renewed by a marriage of technology and environmental sustainability. “Basically, the only thing we kept was the building’s exterior shell,” says Jason Carlson, project manager for contractor... View Details
Keywords: Paul Massari; Specialty Trade Contractors; Construction
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business

automobiles, and airlines," says Curator Laura Linard, director of historical collections at Baker Library. The period also corresponds to the rise of graduate business schools, including HBS (founded in 1908), which were established to train View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 24 Sep 2021
  • News

How to Build a Transparent Relationship with Your Suppliers

  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Church on Sunday, Work on Monday

religious life at Stanford University, have developed several new frameworks to help businesspeople and clergy actively draw on their religious faith to address management problems. "Our goal is not to convince the church that it should... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

The School that Donham Built

government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Books

have implemented balanced scorecards, the performance management system that the pair developed in 1992. In The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, the authors delve into... View Details
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information