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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance algorithms are at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
the difference between using new information technologies to automate and to informate. Automation strategies stress labor substitution and cost reduction. Informating strategies stress information diffusion for effectiveness and added... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
with its employees—as they make their buying decisions." Just as consumers have begun to develop a fuller sense of their part in the global community—by protesting certain labor practices in foreign countries or buying fair-trade... View Details
- November 1994
- Case
Navistar International
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
As a consequence of laying off half its workforce in a massive downsizing program, the company--a large manufacturer of medium and heavy trucks--struggles with a huge ($2.6 billion) liability for retiree medical costs. Although the company has promised its retirees... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Wages; Labor Unions; Legal Liability; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Navistar International." Harvard Business School Case 295-030, November 1994.
- November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
The Big 3 Roar Back
By: William W. George
The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details
Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
George, William W. "The Big 3 Roar Back." Harvard Business School Case 412-072, November 2011. (Revised June 2012.)
- December 2001
- Case
Van Bolton: Resolving a Labor-Management Dispute
Describes the challenges facing Van Bolton, the head of a large airline, as he works with the head of the company's pilots' union to negotiate issues relating to the acquisition of a smaller airline. Bolton must find ways to surmount a history of adversarial... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Labor Unions; Acquisition; Air Transportation Industry
Watkins, Michael D. "Van Bolton: Resolving a Labor-Management Dispute." Harvard Business School Case 902-051, December 2001.
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
perspective, the illegality of the practice and its misalignment with official organizational goals might be most salient. Thus, the topic of homer making puts the person disclosing it in a position of vulnerability, one in which hasty judgment is likely. The unusual... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
state-owned China Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Corporation, to illustrate China’s growing interest and involvement in the African continent. While many in Africa welcome the substantial Chinese investment, resentment over labor abuses, low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
has an empirical paper presenting evidence that households that face higher labor income risk are somewhat less likely to choose tax-efficient asset location strategies, consistent with his theoretical model. The jury is still out on how... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Skills-First Hiring at IBM
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta
Teaching note for “Skills-First Hiring at IBM,” case no. 422-013. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Human Capital; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Societal Protocols; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
in the developing world, Jeffrey Ballinger was the first to criticize Nike's labor policies in Asia. When he arrived in Indonesia in 1988, the country's daily minimum wage was about $0.86. By 1997, it had tripled to just over two dollars.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
or expanded during the pandemic. Not surprisingly, these are also the people most likely to work from home. More than 61 percent of those among the top-quarter of earners can do their jobs from home, compared with 9.2 percent in lowest quarter, according to the US... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50191 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—Volunteers provide a large source of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
material exchange in labor relations). Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16621 Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Pérez-Truglia Abstract In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
the portability of the model to other countries and settings. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511049-PDF-ENG QuikTrip Zeynep TonHarvard Business School Case 611-045 QuikTrip, a large convenience store chain with over 500 stores, was known for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne