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- 08 Jan 2014
- News
Samaras, Greece Assume Presidency of European Union
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
succumbed to ongoing protests, announcing in February that it would up the base salary of its employees to at least $9 an hour. Despite statistics that show that unions are in decline throughout the country—the US Department of View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included serving as a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
administration's rescue and restructuring of General Motors, spent months trying to save the bankrupt company from dissolving. But the bakery workers' union ultimately refused to accept a proposed deal. "Given the historical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
You were right all along. From being a left-wing-dominated party, we have become a centrist-dominated party. OK, maybe we remain one or two clicks to the left of you, but still pretty darn close. (And, yes, a lot of us agree the teachers’ View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
the country to embrace labor organizing as a tool to end the widespread use of noncompete clauses. “Many tech employees are union-averse, so it’s going to be hard for them to consider joining an established union,” says Johnson. But... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
seals for automotive parts suppliers such as AutoZone and Parts Plus. Developed in 1997, the line continues to expand and contribute to the company’s overall sales, which totaled $2.6 billion in 2002. Delivering on the Details When Lauri View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just the right spot with delicate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
viable.” —President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) in December 2008, on diverting $17.4 billion in government funds to bail out GM and Chrysler “I went to business school because I thought it was important that unions understand how companies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
recent bout of bad news (coming after the minivan and SUV successes of the 1990s had temporarily eased the woes of the 1980s) has been ascribed to some or all of the following: excessive corporate bureaucracy, arrogance, and insularity; View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
in an inner-city factory with union labor. As Stuntz quickly learned, entrepreneurs need a high tolerance for rejection. Prospecting for investors yielded only disappointment. “We finally decided to self-fund,” he recalls. Greentech... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot... View Details