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- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School...
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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or...
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- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
savings for the government would be lower in the US. But the same forces would still be at play, and since American workers have less protective safety nets overall, including on health care, they might...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
now at a level of reasonable safety to open up. Much media attention has been paid to easing restrictions—basically increasing the available supply of offices, restaurants, colleges, stores, and factories. “Will shoppers, diners,...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
focus on employees and more on business and profitability." Phil Clark posited that knowledge work that deals with intangible results and hard-to-pinpoint accomplishments "just isn't as satisfying" as work used to be. John Alexander said, "When...
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by Jim Heskett
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9889.html Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss Authors:David...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
self-conscious focus on increasing safety and effectiveness—which compelled workers to adopt a set of work practices that supported deep and ongoing learning—had the secondary consequence of disrupting and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
CEO reported that friends had come down with it. One CEO and father of three reported “[getting] lost in looking after the kids” as his wife “is a frontline worker and was at the hospital every day.” “Kids switching to online school” was...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Platinum's Rustenburg, South Africa, mines in response to a spate of deaths at the operations. The case lays out Carroll's requirements of what had to be done before the Rustenburg mines could restart operations, including the implementation of a new View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618028 Harvard Business School Case 618-019 Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A) Managers make predictions all the time: How...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms, a stronger understanding of these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
lamenting the move away from free trade concepts, Thom Dammrich said, “Protected industries and their workers benefit in the short term, but beyond that protected industries become globally uncompetitive, shrink and lose workers.” David...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of...
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
that leaders can take which have a positive symbolic value include: Fixing what people see every day. This is a small and simple step that creates a good mood and positive behaviors. It can include cleaning up the work environment and solving basic problems that View Details
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel