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July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
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MobSquad

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma

Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States

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Inflation Uncertainty and the Wage Bargain

By: Lucy White and Hans-Joachim Voth

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Risk and Uncertainty; Wages; Labor and Management Relations; Negotiation

01 Dec 2006
News

HBS Club Meets U.S. Ambassador

Members of the HBS Alumni Association of Germany had a unique opportunity in September to meet with William R. Timken Jr. (MBA ’62), the current U.S. ambassador to Germany. Timken previously had a 43-year career at The Timken Co., a Fortune 500 enterprise employing... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

January 1981 (Revised June 1993)
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Note on Why Employees Join Unions

By: Michael Beer

Provides some answers to the question of why employees join unions. Summarizes recent data on workers' perceptions of unions: their power and instrumentality. Also explores the special situation of white collar workers. View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions; Employees; Social Psychology

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

For some gig workers, losing the flexibility to set their own schedules is equivalent to taking a 17 percent pay cut, according to new research that explores the wages and work habits of DoorDash drivers. App-based platforms that allow workers to start and stop work at... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

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I am a doctoral candidate in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School. My main areas of interest are organizational economics, public policy, and technology. My research is published at PNAS and forthcoming at the Journal of Financial Economics. My work has been... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Communication Technology; Wages; Policy; Brazil

April 1, 2020
Article

A Detailed Plan for Getting Americans Back to Work

By: Amitabh Chandra, Mark Fishman and Douglas Melton

Given the different impact that the pandemic is having on individual communities across the country, the notion that all workers should be allowed to return to work on one date is unrealistic. Instead, individual states should make that determination. This article lays... View Details

Keywords: Return To Work; Health Pandemics; Employment; Safety; Planning; United States

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November 1985 (Revised December 1994)
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Leckenby Co.

This game is a highly structured exercise in labor-management bargaining. If union and management cannot reach agreement within two days, then the union will strike. The costs of a strike are not the same for the two sides. Similarly, the cost of a settlement to... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Accounting; Labor and Management Relations

September 2004
Article

Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows

By: M. A. Desai, Devesh Kapur and John McHale

Keywords: Taxation; Human Capital

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07 Jul 2020
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Predictable Financial Crises

Keywords: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

If there were ever any doubts that HBS graduates would travel to the ends of the earth to reestablish their ties to the School, those doubts can now be put to rest. Although the venue required at least a ten-hour flight for most attendees, the 1999 Global Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Oct 2015
News

Paddle8 Collects $34 Million

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52623 Digital... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2018
Supplement

Abe on Womenomics, part 2: Women as Leaders – Policies & Exemplars: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015

By: Boris Groysberg

This video supplement is a lightly edited excerpt from a 2015 speech by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in which he describes Womenomics--policies and aspirations to promote greater economic participation by Japan's women, thereby promoting economic growth, greater... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Gender; Employment; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development; Working Conditions; Japan

June 2003 (Revised December 2003)
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Social Partnership

By: Huw Pill and Julian Coulter

Discusses the tripartite social partnership among employers, unions, and government that was geared toward maintaining international competitiveness through wage moderation within the European monetary system from the late 1980s. View Details

Keywords: Wages; Competition; Partners and Partnerships; Labor and Management Relations; Business and Government Relations; Europe