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- February 2003 (Revised April 2003)
- Background Note
Note on Staffing in Professional Service Firms
By: Ashish Nanda
This case discusses the problem of balancing demand and supply of professionals within a professional services firm (PSF). It emphasizes how human resources management policies impact supply conditions and how market opportunities determine demand conditions. The case... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Balance and Stability; Supply and Industry; Employees; Service Industry
Nanda, Ashish. "Note on Staffing in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-110, February 2003. (Revised April 2003.)
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
irrigation systems and techniques still used today. Unfortunately, water has also been the cause of many bloody wars in the region. In the US, conflict over water hasn't reached that intensity, but bitter legal and political disputes are... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
group, Connell gained 85 percent ownership of the industrial companies with a leveraged buyout that created the Connell Limited Partnership. Last year, the four firms remaining in the Partnership accounted for revenues of more than $1... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
talking with industry experts and reading the literature, Luo and Galasso found that companies had known for a long time about the potential for dose-reducing technology, but had not developed it due to lack of demand. “It seems that the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade barriers. Politicians pick up on those requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
strengthened by the rise of craft guilds in the sixteenth century. Legal scholars claim it was not until the Industrial Revolution that courts began to routinely enforce restrictions on employee mobility, though they generally held that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
Henry Ford II
When Ford took over Ford Motor in 1945, the company was losing $9.5 million per month. Ford implemented an audit system for the company, while automating company plants. As a result of Ford’s leadership, the Ford Motor Company boasted net... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
John C. Malone
Known for his financial wizardry, Malone acquired a barrage of cable systems throughout the United States, allowing TCI to own one in four cable systems in American households. TCI’s exposure to other parts... View Details
Keywords: Communications
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research, Harvard Business School, 1933 The thousands of images Ayres and Davenport received revealed that behind the product lay a corporate system driven by power, efficiency,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
- Background Note
Note on Pricing and Public Policy
Surveys a number of essential issues related to pricing and public policy in market economies. Begins with a brief review of the price-determination process in competitive markets, then examines a range of topics involving pricing and public policy in monopoly and... View Details
Keywords: Price; Business Strategy; Policy; Valuation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Competition; Economic Systems; Monopoly; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost
Emmons, Willis M., III. "Note on Pricing and Public Policy." Harvard Business School Background Note 794-027, September 1993. (Revised December 1993.)
Robert L. Crandall
Crandall is credited with several innovations in the airline industry including introducing the original “Super Saver” fares, launching the first frequent flyer program, and developing the first yield management View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 5:30 PM – 7:15 PM EDT, 10 Jun 2020
- Virtual Programming
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
Katherine Gehl and Professor Michael Porter utilize classic business school tools (Porters Five Forces) to analyze politics as an industry in order to understand how the U.S. political system actually works... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household... View Details
Keywords: Unemployment Insurance; Automatic Stabilizers; Bartik Shocks; Aggregate Demand; System Shocks; Employment; Balance and Stability; Insurance; Volatility; Insurance Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani. "The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-009, July 2016. (Revise and Resubmit to American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.)
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A Jay Holmgren
while gaining expertise in management, which hadn’t factored into my previous graduate-level work,” he says. “When it comes to an industry as complex as healthcare, the management of the implementation of View Details
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An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals
U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details
Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. "An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals." IMF Economic Review 63, no. 4 (November 2015): 984–1023.
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
from the industry having trials that better represent the patient base.” “Pharmaceutical companies could benefit from the industry having trials that better represent the patient base,” says Harvard Business... View Details
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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible... View Details