Labor Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2022
News

Let's Protect Our Frontline Workers from Rude Customers

31 May 2021
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What Your Future Employees Want Most

01 Feb 2000
News

William Jones: Builder with a Mission

recalls. Nevertheless, he says, during that period "my daughter and I were very close. She loved the environment. It was one of the best things we could have done." After graduating from HBS, Jones worked at Prudential in San Francisco as an investment View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Oct 2001
News

Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource

have the volunteer labor of a great steering committee and board to help us reach this goal," comments Young. In addition to connecting alumni with each other, both clubs help foster a better relationship between alumni and the School.... View Details

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

March 2019
Supplement

Gender and Free Speech at Google (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Sarah Mehta

In November 2018, 20,000 Google employees participated in a walkout to protest the company’s decision to grant a $90 million exit package to a former executive accused of sexual misconduct. The case explores organizers’ demands and asks how the company’s senior leaders... View Details

Keywords: Free Speech; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Labor; Employment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Technology Industry; United States; California

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Purchase

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

working with consulting clients—Wilson was able to move on to his studies with Raiffa and others who were developing a new approach to using economic theory and mathematics to drive strategy and management decisions. JH: And tell me what... View Details

28 Jan 2014
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The Good Jobs Strategy

30 Jul 2010
News

Notes from a Hammock

I’m just back from vacation and the usual summer fun: swimming, boating, murder and mayhem. Oh, that last part no worries, it got no further than my hammock. That’s where I finally got around to reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first in Swedish author Stieg... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2009
News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

"We design them here, but the labor is cheaper in Hell." © Drew Dernavich/Condé Nast Publications/Cartoonbank.com Today, many people are looking to high-technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1999
News

New Releases

Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details

29 Apr 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction

Keywords: by Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton; Service

12 Jan 2015
News

Why Online Retailers Are Starting to Care About Your Feelings

Keywords: e-commerce; consumer behavior; innovation; Retail Trade

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni Are Integral to HBS

Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know... View Details

February 2006
Article

Wealth and Executive Compensation

Using new data on the wealth of Swedish CEOs, I show that higher wealth CEOs receive stronger incentives. Since high wealth (excluding own-firm holdings) implies low absolute risk aversion, this is consistent with a risk aversion explanation. To examine whether wealth... View Details

Keywords: Wealth; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Competency and Skills; Wages; Sweden

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Find at Harvard

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

negotiation requires adapting your communication acts to the most advantageous pattern. Learning The Notes Imagine you're a sales rep negotiating with the procurement manager of a professional services firm. Your company is the only... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

historically distressed communities nationwide. He later served as an HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Summer Fellow, working to address the labor shortage within the restaurant industry, developing service models to protect and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

research into the causes of the crisis. “Jay came at the recession like the expert he was,” says Angela Crispi (MBA 1990), Executive Dean for Administration during Light’s tenure. “He moved quickly to manage expenses, while continuing to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

01 Mar 2016
News

Maiden Voyage

Space Missions, Science, and Technology Management. In that role, he will be helping the agency and the UAE to develop and manage its short- and long-term space mission projects and to develop the UAE’s capability in science and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Space Research and Technology; Government

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest... View Details