Labor Market Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

the European Financial Stability Fund, have been remarkable. Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial View Details

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

a community of scientists beyond the firm's boundary. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-012.pdf Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2001
News

Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

Professor Thomas Kennedy, an authority on labor relations at Harvard Business School and a highly respected labor arbitrator, died last December in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He was 88 years old. A member... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Chirag Shah

A single, impoverished mother, only 15 years old, gave birth to the first baby I delivered in medical school. Bringing a new life into the world was nothing short of a miracle. However, caring for this young woman, all alone, through the challenge of View Details

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and suffered in great part due to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

mother of two children, Kidwai, a devotee of Western and Indian classical music, enjoys returning to the Himalayas for trekking and to observe wildlife. India and China seem similar — slumbering giants waking to a global, market economy.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

March 2022
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

Citation

Purchase

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

such a protected market into a wide-open, hypercompetitive environment is a very difficult process.” Today’s headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2016
News

Up by the Roots

division and in time, had a revelation: “Seeing some of the trends in organic foods, I could see a lot of interest in the return to slow food and family farming,” he recalls. “I had a feeling the ginseng market had to turn around.” +... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

In 1961, at the invitation of Dean Stanley F. Teele, George Lodge came to Harvard Business School to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a master's or a Ph.D. and never... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

motion, bringing Greeks back home to further strengthen the labor market and create new economic opportunities. “After 12 years of training in Greece, these talented individuals immigrate primarily to the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

are competitive enterprises — Rubicon produces high-qualitycakes, for example — that just happen to employ folksthat the rest of the labor market often won't hire," he says. "Wedon't operate on a... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

conduct and to monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether or when these organizational structures can actually raise labor standards. We extend the literature on private politics and decoupling by identifying... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 May 2016
News

Hate surge pricing? It’s not all bad

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive systems to compete in... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

country institutions have a profound influence on CSP. We find that political institutions, followed by legal and labor market institutions are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

in worker adjustments between Europe and the US together with his co-authors, Marius Faber and Andres Sarto. In Europe, people are far less likely to move, and labor market View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

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