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- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she didn’t View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
performance, and innovation. Peterson and three colleagues from Emory were among the program’s 68 participants from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. “We’ve always felt there was an opportunity to apply the leadership and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
and Joseph Fuller The live, virtual presentation—offered twice to accommodate alumni across the globe—explored how companies can address three forces that are changing how and where we work: the rise of the gig economy; the growing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Understanding Southeast Asia’s New Business Frontier From cosmopolitan Bangkok and Singapore to the Sumatran rainforest, participants in the June 2017 HBS faculty immersion explored the diverse industries of Southeast Asia. “This region... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China's labor shortage of migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations, next spring. California Research Center—When the... View Details
- Blog
Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
send participants to a wide range of HBS Executive Education programs, both on campus and regionally. Below, she explains how the changing face of the pandemic has affected executive education in her region. WHAT WAS THE PANDEMIC'S... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
development occurred after I had left the School. I had the good fortune of participating in a luncheon in New York City to honor the Dean after his retirement. He told a moving story about service, friendship, and HBS involving a friend... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
participation to improve labor standards in global supply chains. Yet little is known about whether these structures are associated with improved working conditions, especially in organizations in which they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) University of Toronto Press Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity, as she traces... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level Two influence labor force participation at Level One. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
unionized, it paid well, offered benefits, and was secure. But manufacturing employment has steadily declined, from about 25% of the U.S. labor force in 1970 to less than 10% today. Now a decent living... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
from imperfect local institutions in developing countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-003.pdf Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Publications April 2015 Harvard Business Review How to Really Motivate Salespeople By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace