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HBS - The year in Review

positive labor relations management, was deemed best to support the School’s brand and its educational mission. Its collaboration with Thompson Hospitality, the largest minority-owned food service management company in the country,... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

slavery. Rather, innovation was, in a sense, a byproduct of bondage. The immense control of planters over their slaves enabled the development of management "controls." Slaves became the subjects of management experiments, their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

1800s, the Lehman family has made noteworthy contributions to philanthropic work in health, social services, and the arts. Robert Lehman, ca. 1960. Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Herbert Lehman giving a speech. International Garment... View Details
  • September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

Wal-Mart Stores in 2003

By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Stephen P. Bradley and Ken Mark
Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Fairness; Corporate Strategy; Operations; Labor Unions; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; United States
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens... View Details
  • 24 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included serving as a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

but tempered improvement in occupational health and safety. This tradeoff is more pronounced in factories with unions and high-powered productivity incentives, suggesting internal governance structures shape how suppliers respond to... View Details
  • July 1990 (Revised October 1999)
  • Case

Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A)

By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
In 1989, the performance measurement systems and compensation policies of Nordstrom Department Stores unexpectedly came under attack by employees, unions, and government regulators. The case describes the "sales-per-hour" monitoring and compensation system that many... View Details
Keywords: Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Labor Unions; Salesforce Management; Retention; Growth and Development; Industrial Products Industry; Utilities Industry
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  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

to do it. What do you think? Original Column The Brexit vote by citizens of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union was neither the beginning nor the end of the anti-globalization, anti-establishment movement. But it grabbed the... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

unaccommodating behavior by the slighted party. In their 1991 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations (ILR Press), Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie recount such a scenario. After a string of long, protracted contract... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

touting their pay transparency policies as a means of ensuring fairness. But, as it turns out, pay transparency doesn’t necessarily increase workers’ wages, writes Harvard Business School professor Zoe Cullen in a new working paper. More than 20 US states and 10... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

by labor and farm parties and union activists. Growing political debates centered on matters of scale, and anti-trust issues became concerns not only for the railroads but in the telephone, oil, and steel... View Details
  • April 2015 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb
The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load and increasing retiree costs. These... View Details
Keywords: Chapter 9; Chapter 11; Bankruptcy; Municipal Finance; Restructuring; Financial Liquidity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; City; Government Administration; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Failure; Labor Unions; Urban Development; Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Making; Demographics; Economics; Finance; Public Administration Industry; Michigan; Detroit
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  • 01 Nov 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

by Jonathan Pollard. “The time has come for all employee non-compete agreements to be abolished,” he wrote. “If tech giants can operate in California without non-compete agreements, then so can everyone else.” He went on to say, “Non-compete abuse is the most important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

bankruptcy poses several questions. How did the board and management of a great company ever allow this extraordinary situation to develop? It is easy to point to the labor agreements from the 1950's, and the slow response to the superior... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details
Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 11 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

Union (AASU), Women's Student Association (WSA), Harbus Foundation, Social Enterprise Club Melcolm Ruffin “I DISCOVERED THERE WAS A BUSINESS SIDE TO SPORTS AND A PATH TO A CAREER.” HOME REGION Chicago, IL UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of... View Details