Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

factors that impact the business landscape (geopolitical forces, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, labor policies, social mores, and government intervention). In studying the context in which business leadership emerged, we... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

the current review integrates multiple streams of research relevant to brokerage and brokering—including those on structural holes, organizational innovation, boundary spanning, social and political skill, workplace gossip, third-party conflict managers, and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and slow fashion from Victoria's Secret, and I knew we could... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

think the labor market will have a sorting system in place. There are going to be those of us who think of work as a transaction and nothing more. And there are going to be organizations that are going to... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details

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01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar... View Details

March 2022
Case

The Future of Start-Up Chile

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo

In 2021, public accelerator program Start-Up Chile, which ten years earlier had created a global buzz, might be losing its competitive edge to similar programs or one-year visas for digital nomads offered by other countries. The case follows SUP’s CEO, Angeles Romo, as... View Details

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01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

business today. What issues did you face when you returned to Hong Kong in 1972? When I returned, my friends told me, “We don’t know why you’ve come back. Hong Kong’s now too expensive. Our labor is too high, and Taiwan has taken all our... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2009
News

Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says Scharpf. The Rwandan venture will manufacture and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

and productivity, but also in the labor market, as information access and communication technology changes can be expected to affect the wage distribution in opposite directions," their paper states. The researchers looked at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

throughout the hospital, starting with the labor and delivery ward. POE systems replace paper-based and oral medication ordering processes with an information system; the physician uses the system to enter medication orders, which are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

Remote work is giving companies new opportunities to tap additional markets and talent pools. However, a global workforce also brings a challenge: As some employees are getting up in the morning, others are winding down their workday.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

of the league's broadcasting committee and the securing of lucrative TV contracts, and for helping forge peace between players and owners during heated labor negotiations in 2011. Goal to Go While expanding its fan base and finding new... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in... View Details

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at... View Details

Keywords: April White

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