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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
consumers in the dining area. On average, restaurants spend 30 percent of their revenue on labor. With increasing focus on fair wages and legislated wage increases, restaurants may easily exceed that...
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- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
real wages have not been increasing, although compensation often falls rather low on the list of things that employees seek out of the employment "deal." Q: What is the culture cycle? A: The...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
infrastructure, technology, and education that seek to bring tradable jobs ("work for middle-income people") back to US shores. One model that he cites is Germany between 2000 and 2005, during which it sought to become more competitive by lowering View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
bikes on their way than they did the smart-locks that allowed their customers to unlock them with their cell-phones. But the breather would also give ofo's leaders a chance to re-assess their plans for the rest of the year. For how long, to what end, and at what cost,...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
practice in need of further examination. Taken to an extreme, it leads to a conclusion such as that of Renat Nadyukov: "Sometimes we forget why we pay people." Sivaram Parameswaran concurs, saying, "in the compulsion to stay on par with other players, we...
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by Jim Heskett
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
the salesman's role in promoting goods was different from that of advertising. To use a military analogy common in the early twentieth century, advertising was a weapon for waging an air war, while salesmen were deployed as foot soldiers...
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by Laura Linard
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Management Review The Real Lessons From Kodak's Decline By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn't recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
wage increase. The union was asking for a 4 percent increase, while management wanted to raise salaries by only 1 percent. The executive considered the situation. During past negotiations, weeks were lost as each side jockeyed for...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
mediation, and "negotiate something in the real world" was her current assignment. The VP eventually agreed to put her in touch with the Impress representative. After a number of meetings and a lot of negotiation, Impress agreed...
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by Deepak Malhotra
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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni
of leadership and advanced career responsibilities, you almost always have choices. The real issue is not the availability of choices, but their consequences – many of the possibilities afforded us may mean compromises in our careers, our...
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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
adapt to the behavioral biases of employees to "sort in" ("sort away") attractive (unattractive) employees; such schemes may also reduce a firm's wage bill. Consequence-Cause Matching: Looking to the Consequences of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
in The Journal of Economic History in 2012 for "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965" with Ewout Frankema. Marlous van Waijenburg: 2013: Winner...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
surpluses/deficit on a sustained basis if normal adjustments through exchange rate movements work sluggish. This is a possibility that has become very real over the last few years. Export-oriented countries might get trapped in...
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by Christian Ketels
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job quality which...
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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
years. We started our fund at zero, and we’re now worth $3.1 Billion. We’ve had a hand in creating more than 150 millionaires, a few billionaires, and hundreds of thousands of jobs. The continent offers huge opportunities in whatever direction you want to go—fintech,...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
For some gig workers, losing the flexibility to set their own schedules is equivalent to taking a 17 percent pay cut, according to new research that explores the wages and work habits of DoorDash drivers. App-based platforms that allow...
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