Filter Results
:
(803)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(803)
- News (183)
- Research (514)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (252)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(803)
- News (183)
- Research (514)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (252)
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
primarily service providers. SC industries, especially traded services, have higher average wages than B2C industries. The supply chain economy also has a higher degree of innovative capacity as reflected by a much larger intensity of...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
deal because the offer is well below what Southeastern believes is Dell Inc.'s intrinsic value. Southeastern, along with activist investor Carl Icahn, wage a campaign to defeat the go-private deal and propose a leveraged recapitalization...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
That is a family-sustaining wage for people in a tough economic environment. So increasingly, individuals and their families are able to make quite clearheaded decisions about “what is in my best interest.” So an apprenticeship is not a...
View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
utilization. Even in occupations highly exposed to immigrants’ competition, there were no employment or wage losses among natives, suggesting that political discontent was unlikely to have economic roots. Consistent with this...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $66 billion CSD industry in the United States, where the average American consumes 52 gallons of CSD per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle," from 1975 to...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
nuanced. If anything, we lived through a very exceptional period where wages rose very quickly. As a consequence, we’re living through, as de Tocqueville called it, a revolution of rising expectations. Expectations have gotten out of...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for three consecutive years but have not received a material raise or change in employment status or title—so, essentially, been in the same job more or less for roughly the same wages for three consecutive years, prior to Covid. We...
View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
question whether the wages that they can work in some of those jobs are questionable. And second, for what I had said earlier, a lot of frontline work doesn’t actually put you on a path to a meaningful career. And so one of the things we...
View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
specialized in failing companies," said the former management consultant in a 1985 HBS interview. "No matter what a firm's problem was, I always said it was my specialty to take care of it." MCI, an upstart telecommunications firm that View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
NatureSweet’s year-round greenhouse production model, were employed full time—were empowered with training and productivity incentives, allowing them to earn well above the minimum wage and advance their careers within the company....
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
while the Explorers Club expedition formed, so had its geopolitics. At home, any hope that the American economy would rebound after Black Tuesday had disappeared as wages declined and unemployment grew, plunging the nation into what would...
View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often demonstrating for higher wages or better working conditions. Wen, however, was really focused on his new development...
View Details
- Web
One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
capital for entrepreneurs, I am excited by the potential to see tremendous, and I would say almost inconceivable and incomparable impact. That's how big an impact we can have. I think the idea, for example, for people to find growth and dignity in their work while...
View Details
- Person Page
Media
Media
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
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
cofounder and CEO of fitness organization Peloton, committed to investing $100 million over the next four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
all the rage.Bersin: One of the things that’s occurred to me for a long time as an analyst is, why do we treat wages as an expense, when human capital is the most appreciating asset you have in the company? Everything else depreciates....
View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings; they also explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics...
View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
have been economically impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Using two of the organization's locations to serve as pop-up takeout operations, the Clubs are serving more than 2,000 free meals a night. Those receiving the food—at least half of whom are undocumented...
View Details