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- March 2007 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd.
By: Mukti Khaire and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman
Fabindia is a for-profit Indian retail company with the stated mission of providing employment to weavers and traditional handicraft artisans in rural India. Established in 1960 as an exporter of home furnishings, Fabindia has grown as a consumer-facing retailer of...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Supply Chain;
Mission and Purpose;
Expansion;
Retail Industry;
India
Khaire, Mukti, and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman. "Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 807-113, March 2007. (Revised February 2010.)
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Will Startup Fishbowl Become the Social Media App for Your Industry?
- 31 Jan 2020
- Video
Blavatnik Fellow David Mou is Innovating Behavioral Health Care
Yoon Jae Shin
Yoonjae Shin is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His primary interests are labor market, corporate governance, and social inequality. Prior to beginning his PhD, Yoonjae worked in the project team at Seoul National...
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- Career Coach
Jan Pianca
Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s...
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Keywords:
Auto/Transportation/Logistics;
Consumer Products;
Education;
Emerging Markets;
Energy;
Clean Technology;
Energy;
Oil & Gas;
Energy;
Entertainment / Media;
Entrepreneurship;
Fintech;
Financial Services (All);
Impact Investing;
Financial Services (All);
Private Equity;
Financial Services (All);
Venture Capital;
Financial Services (All);
Health Care;
Hospitality;
Manufacturing;
Real Estate;
Technology
- 2022
- White Paper
Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs, low-wage workers are—and have long been—the most likely to be overlooked by...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Labor Market;
Low-wage Workers;
Worker Welfare;
Churn/retention;
Morale;
Jobs and Positions;
Employees;
Wages;
Retention;
Well-being;
Human Resources
Fuller, Joseph B., and Manjari Raman. "Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers." White Paper, Harvard Business School, January 2022.
- January 2018
- Article
The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial
By: Leslie K. John, Andrea Troxel, William Yancy, Joelle Y. Friedman, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Robert Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp
Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally-available weight management program.
Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: 100%; 80% 50% and a hybrid 50% subsidy... View Details
Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: 100%; 80% 50% and a hybrid 50% subsidy... View Details
Keywords:
Affordable Care Act (ACA);
Subsidies;
Weight Loss;
Obesity;
Incentives;
Behavioral Economics;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Compensation and Benefits;
United States
John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel, William Yancy, Joelle Y. Friedman, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Robert Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp. "The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial." American Journal of Health Promotion 32, no. 1 (January 2018): 170–176.
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Phillip Andrews
Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well...
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Keywords:
Consulting;
Education;
Emerging Markets;
Investment Management;
Financial Services (All);
Private Equity;
Financial Services (All);
Venture Capital;
Financial Services (All);
Government;
Social Enterprise;
Clean Technology;
Energy;
Telecommunications;
Impact Investing;
Financial Services (All)
- 13 Jan 2017
- News
Higher Minimum Wage May Have Losers
- Nov 2014
- Report
Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recommends a new demand-driven approach—talent pipeline management—to close the skills gap. Extending lessons learned from innovations in supply chain management, this paper calls for employers to...
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- 09 Feb 2016
- News
How and Why Businesses Should Teach Retirement
- December 2015
- Case
An Intern's Dilemma (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship by his employer in order to obtain data from industry competitors.
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Keywords:
Conflict;
Leadership;
Conflict Management;
Competition;
Ethics;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Organizational Culture;
Employees;
Power and Influence
Sucher, Sandra J., and Matthew Preble. "An Intern's Dilemma (A)." Harvard Business School Case 316-128, December 2015.
- Article
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in...
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Keywords:
Industrial Organization;
Chinitz;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Cities;
Mines;
Industry Clusters;
Urban Development;
Entrepreneurship;
City;
Mining;
Mining Industry;
United States
Glaeser, Edward L., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines." Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 2 (May 2015): 498–520.
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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets
Many labor markets share three stylized facts: employers cannot give full attention to all candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this...
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Keywords:
Signaling;
Matching;
Cheap Talk;
Congestion;
Market Design;
Marketplace Matching;
Communication;
Job Search
Coles, Peter A., Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle. "Preference Signaling in Matching Markets." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 5, no. 2 (May 2013): 99–134.
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
Getting the Most Out of Financial Incentives for Weight Loss
The use of employer-sponsored, incentive-based programs for weight loss is growing. This growth is likely to accelerate in the coming years due to a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which allows employers to use a greater proportion of... View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. In the Quest for Gender Equality, Job Ads Are Low-hanging Fruit; an Interview by Carmen Nobel...
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Keywords:
All Industries
- 2015
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in...
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Keywords:
Industrial Organization;
Chinitz;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Cities;
Mines;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
City;
Mining;
Mining Industry;
Pittsburgh
Glaeser, Edward L., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-015, August 2012. (Revised May 2015.)
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
How to Create a Presence Without Being Present
The professional job search is a deeply personal journey. For MBA job-seekers, direct engagement with potential employers is essential: they want you to know who they are, and they want to know who you are. Live, face-to-face encounters...
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Keywords:
All Industries