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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently simple to participate in the market, as opposed to transacting outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
of getting hit by a lawsuit and facing enforcement action by federal labor regulators. “The firms have an incentive—and a very real incentive—to put you just over the line,” Cohen says. Fixing the problem Looking ahead, one solution would...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 2008
- Working Paper
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998)...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13755, February 2008.
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Maggio & Amir Kermani SEP 2016 How can unemployment insurance serve 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, Macro...
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
health care agenda. Health care invests billions of dollars in quality measurement programs and complex cost accounting systems yet these systems currently fail to collect outcomes that matter to patients and the costs to acheive them. Outcome Measurement View Details
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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
a sequence of stages, each with a different set of economic characteristics and challenges. Factor-Driven Stage The first stage is the Factor-Driven Stage, in which competitive advantage is based exclusively on endowments of labor and...
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- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Hiring International Students
Certification. It requires an employer to first test the U.S. labor market through a variety of standard recruitment methods (see below). The recruitment period lasts from 1 to 6 months and, once complete,...
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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
labor costs, and concerns about relying on suppliers who potentially abuse the human rights of workers or pay less than a standard living wage. Victor and William Fung are the new type of Asian leaders—will...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
across countries. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52239 2018 The Nature of Human Creativity Creativity and the Labor of Love By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—This book provides an overview of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
standards battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, focusing on the events that precipitated the Blu-ray victory in early 2008. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710443-PDF-ENG Hospital for Special Surgery (C): Continuing...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Knowledge Use and Leverage (10) Knowledge (67) Labor and Management Relations (2) Labor (134) Law Enforcement (2) Lawfulness (1) Laws and Statutes (10) Lawsuits and Litigation (6) Law (65) Leadership...
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- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
in 2018. While in these cases globalization led to the rise of the far right, there are examples of globalization leading to the rise of left-wing parties as well. This was the case with the rise of the Labor Party in the UK, when trade...
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by Rachel Layne
- 06 Feb 2014
- HBS Seminar
Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
slavery. Rather, innovation was, in a sense, a byproduct of bondage. The immense control of planters over their slaves enabled the development of management "controls." Slaves became the subjects of management experiments, their View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
looking for meaning in their work—and are eager for roles offering a higher purpose even if they pay less than traditional positions. When graduates are willing to work for less in jobs they feel are “useful to society,” the labor market...
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Middle Skills - U.S. Competitiveness
America’s labor market has entered a “new normal” phrase. Although the unemployment rate has declined after the Great Recession, underemployment remains a major problem and the percentage of workers stuck in part-time jobs is well above...
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