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- 28 Jan 2022
- News
Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Eurotrek program also featured opportunities to make contact with major companies and entrepreneurs from a number of countries on the Continent. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark is an enthusiastic supporter of the career trek concept. "The mission...
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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the...
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by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
correlated with different pathways to success,” says Fuller, who is also the co-director of HBS’ Managing the Future of Work project. Apprenticeships are rare outside the building trades in the US. Concerns abound that they pigeonhole...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2020
- Working Paper
Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Telephone operation was one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted dial service in over half of U.S. telephone exchanges, automating away a legion of operators. We show that upon a city's adoption of...
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Employment;
Labor;
Gender;
Technology Adoption;
History;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
- 17 Apr 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty books pages
2023: March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books A More Just Future 2022: December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts Ink: Comfort in Discomfort September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: The Three-Step Startup June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: Start Small,...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a monopoly emerge in a platform-based market? Finally, when is a platform-based market socially...
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Price;
Network Effects;
Digital Platforms;
Monopoly;
Quality;
Competitive Advantage;
Digital Platforms
Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-031, November 2007.
- May 2024
- Case
HarvEast
By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Goods and Commodities;
Natural Resources;
Food;
Problems and Challenges;
Adaptation;
Innovation and Management;
Crisis Management;
Logistics;
Supply Chain;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Loss;
Trust;
Human Needs;
War;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chile;
South America;
Latin America
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
process at drug companies. Looking to the future and emphasizing that "there is no success in business that can compensate for failure at home," Clark told the Class of 2001, "You have the capacity to change...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Global talent fosters innovation and collaborative patents
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
believe strong teachers and researchers are essential to creating future leaders. “HBS has one of the most respected doctoral programs in the world, and we felt we could have...
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- 17 Dec 2014
- News
Facilitating an understanding of business and society in Turkey and the surrounding region
Turkey, government officials, and prominent business leaders, laying the foundation for future research. Çekin also develops connections between companies in Turkey and HBS’s...
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- 13 Nov 2014
- News
How Educators Can Align Careers and Curriculum
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
food—including food as mundane as a carrot. Future experiments will delve into whether rituals affect productivity and morale in the workplace. A Sense Of Control Norton and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Article
Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent...
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Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12, no. 3 (July 2013): 285–319.
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
these two domains. I am simply grateful to have the opportunity to share my passion and ideas on these very important topics with future leaders, many of whom will make a lasting contribution to society, the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
rise of political risk and the decline in institutional trust—Harari’s masterful treatise on the history of Homo sapiens outlines intrinsic drivers for the complex world we live in and the View Details
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April White
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
The Care Economy
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
people's plans? Second, will consumers tolerate fees for what they've formerly received for free? And finally, has competitive advantage returned to bricks-and-mortar operations? CNET's Bonnie was bullish on the View Details
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by Jim Aisner