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The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
welcomed Mayo’s arrival at the Hawthorne Works in 1928. “We have become skeptical of being able to prove anything in connection with the behavior of human beings under various conditions,” he wrote. 4 Other Hawthorne experiments taking place at the time included the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
the price, Karp notes. In some cases, a company might keep its prices lower than the amount customers might be willing to part with to earn brand loyalty or hedge against market fluctuations. Similarly, a company may pay employees or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
democratized both inside and outside of companies. In the past, CEOs and other senior leaders were seen as the legitimate strategic decision-makers because they had more access to data and could decide if and when to share it. With much... View Details
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Reverse Innovation
VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
cross-occupational survey (Study 1), we found that idle time occurs frequently across all occupational categories; we estimate that employers in the United States pay roughly $100 billion in wages for time that employees spend idle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online
hrs/week Pay by August 7 $1,850 Certificate Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization in leadership and management . Complete the year-long CLIMB program to View Details
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
Certificate Earn the Credential of Readiness by taking all three courses in tandem, plus a final exam. Leadership & Management Develop the leadership and management skills to get things done and bring out the best in your team, whether... View Details
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
course, discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
to $10 in 2016 (it hit $11 per hour in early 2018). Yet in 2015, announcement of a wage increase resulted in a share price drop the following day of 10 percent, on news that the increase would cut earnings... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
world went into lockdown, droves of people who couldn’t go to a health club turned their homes into one with Peloton’s pricey bikes and treadmills. Exercise enthusiasts used them with a devotion that earned them the nickname... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work
experience of America’s lowest wage earners—those earning below $40,000 a year—when it comes to upward mobility? Are workers able to aspire to an increase in pay or a promotion or both after a reasonable... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
rising inequality over the past 40 years. So, in that sense, there's a little bit of good news in our paper from an inequality perspective,” says Wilmers, who focuses on wage and earnings inequality. “It's... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial start-ups. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
to provide some explanation and give a measured response justifying the pay disparity.” Connections between wage disparity and company performance are detailed in Rouen’s recent working paper, Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
expensive legal battle was waged in several courts. FAG Kugelfischer also faced a major battle with its employees over the division of value. Kugelfischer's high labor costs—the average German worker earned... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
lobbyists influenced new policies that ultimately weakened critical union protections and ensured that the minimum wage stagnated, failing to keep up with inflation. Baby Boomers experienced conditions in which corporations began... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson