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  • 2022
  • White Paper

Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs, low-wage workers are—and have long been—the most likely to be overlooked by... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Labor Market; Low-wage Workers; Worker Welfare; Churn/retention; Morale; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Wages; Retention; Well-being; Human Resources
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

By: Claudine Gartenberg and Julie Wulf
This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991–1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Pay-for-Performance; Internal Labor Markets; Peer Comparison; Firm Geography; Behavior; Executive Compensation; Policy
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to discuss how to support the efficient... View Details
Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Research Summary

Overview

Dr. Burch’s research focuses on capitalism, work, and gender in the twentieth-century United States. Her work reinterprets the history of direct selling by placing it at the center, rather than on the margins, of narratives about advanced capitalism. Examining the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Political Economy; Labor History; Gender; Marketing; Sales Force Management; Direct Sales; United States
  • March 2019 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

CareerWise Colorado

By: Rawi Abdelal, Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble
CareerWise Colorado (CWC) is an organization that equips high school students with the skills to build successful careers through apprenticeships. Founded in 2016, the young organization has attracted interest from different groups and civic leaders from across the... View Details
Keywords: Apprenticeship; Nonprofit; Not For Profit; Labor Markets; Skills; Nonprofit Organizations; Education; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on “The Future of Market Capitalism.” The Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the event. BOWER: On the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Fast Answer

Music & Activism: Market Research Resources

Where can I find information to help me with my course work? Where can I find market research reports on target demographic groups? Mintel Reports on consumer attitudes toward industries by generation.
Passport Global... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • April 2023
  • Article

The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation

By: Ethan Rouen and Matthias Regier
We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from publicly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this investment. Measuring the future value of PE (PEFV) based on the relation between... View Details
Keywords: Intangibles; Valuation; Human Capital; Investment Return
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  • 09 Dec 2010
  • News

Driving the Market for Big-Rig Engines

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do US Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

Keywords: by Joseph J. Gerakos, Joseph D. Piotroski & Suraj Srinivasan
  • 17 Aug 2022
  • News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

equity or direct investment in the company's home country and labor market interactions evidenced by business travel from the home country to the U.S follow U.S.-style disclosure practices. There is mixed... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Working Paper Discrimination, Rejection, and Job Search By: Anne Boring, Katherine Coffman , Dylan Glover and... View Details
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Startup Labor Market; Investors; Randomized Field Experiment; Certification Effect; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Human Capital; Job Search; Reputation
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  • 17 Jun 2010
  • News

The Most Emerging of Emerging Markets

Keywords: Professor Tarun Khanna; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing

Boston College's greatest marketing campaign lasted about six seconds. It's called the "Flutie Effect." In a 1984 game against the University of Miami, BC quarterback Doug Flutie threw a last-second "Hail Mary" pass 48... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Advertising; Sports
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • News

Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level

CrossBoundary Advisory as we graduated business school, five years ago. Frontier markets are the next tier beyond emerging markets, places such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana––a lot of these View Details
  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

tariffs—equivalent to taxes—we are currently witnessing.) It reflects the fact that “global” market freedom for capital and goods may work, but market freedom for labor does... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

because it draws upon the power of the founding myths of the country (the myth of success, the frontier myth, the city on a hill) and reinterprets these myths in a way that provides meaning for men who work in large companies in an intensely competitive and not always... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls