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- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
to improve their financial situation by rushing new ventures to market. In doing so, they sacrifice quality standards and ultimately underperform their peers. This is particularly problematic in high tech, where entrants need strong... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
exacerbated if the manager has little or no control over the information that the labor market sees (i.e., is mandated beyond the manager's control). Q: Given the current debate about financial transparency, do you see accountants... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
“the ability of companies in the United States to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.” While HBS alumni widely shared a negative view of the country’s competitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
pace of technological change, the emergence of a gig economy, and shifting global and labor markets. As faculty co-chairs of the Managing the Future of Work project, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller are leading efforts to prepare leaders... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS research associate Melissa... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
developers and device makers to build on. Although the industry is still in the process of developing standards so more devices can communicate, technology isn’t the biggest hurdle for SmartThings and competitors like Google-owned Nest... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(New York Times, 2001), while Former President Clinton used his "bully pulpit" to urge corporations to attend to social problems (New York Times, 1996) and later advocated that minimum labor View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
questions I placed. Silence, in my opinion, indicates something important is at stake. I overcame these hurdles by first investing time in getting to know these workers, then by ensuring anonymity to informants (a standard practice in... View Details
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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Affirming the role of the employee, then, became part of a growing trend in management as a way to inspire collaboration and reduce alienation experienced in the repetitive nature of standardized working conditions. Elton Mayo, professor... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
not actual practices. This introduction and conclusion from a recent working paper, "Product and Labor Markets Globalization and Convergence of Corporate Governance: Evidence from Infosys and the Indian Software Industry," looks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
how we act unethically without meaning to. They demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
2014: The Election That Changed India, by Rajdeep Sardesai. Favorite US hotels: The NoMad and the Standard on the High Line in New York; the Delano in Miami. Any property owned by Aman Resorts. Perk of the job: “I’m a little bit of a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
productivity of EHR use and delegation. We then explored the interaction between these 2 strategies and the role of practice size. Results: Greater EHR use and greater delegation were independently associated with higher levels of productivity. An increase in EHR use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne