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Let First-Level Supervisors Do Their Job
Labor Magazine ArticlePerforming well as a first-level supervisor is like walking the circus high wire. In both positions, the ability to maintain one’s balance when shifting forces pull in opposite directions is a measure of one’s success. First-level supervisors must be able to harmonize the demands of management, the demands of the collective work force (often represented […] -
A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
Organizational Development Digital ArticlePlatforms have rewritten the contract between workers and companies. Here's how gig workers and creators are starting to push back. -
Tapping a Risky Labor Pool
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Is Germany a Model for Managers?
Labor Magazine ArticleMost American managers have a hard time making sense of Germany. It has a fraction of the resources and less than one-third the population of the United States. Labor costs are higher, paid vacations are at least three times as long, and strong unions are deeply involved at all levels of business, from the local […] -
Quality of Work Life—Learning from Tarrytown
Labor Magazine ArticleAt this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself -
AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleMachine learning is increasingly capable of complex analysis. -
Understanding Competence at Work
Labor Magazine ArticleBeing good at your job means having the right understanding of your job. -
The Case of the Not-So-Supermarket
Labor Magazine ArticleHilltop Stores 100 Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06105 Serving Greater Hartford Since 1926 Date: February 16, 1989 To: Margaret Flynn, CEO Hilltop From: Ed Boyer, VP for store operations Our contract with Local 413 expires June 18, so we need to start preparing for negotiations (they’re scheduled to begin in eight weeks). Now is a […] -
Sustainability in the Boardroom
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleLessons from Nike’s playbook -
The Problem with Accounting for Employees as Costs Instead of Assets
Labor Digital ArticleIf we could better track the value of human capital, employees would be better off. -
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
Business and society Digital ArticleEven if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you. -
How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers
Financial markets Digital ArticleResearch reveals how activist investors help and hurt. -
What If All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleA study quantifies the costs and identifies four ways to pay for it. -
We Googled You
Labor Magazine ArticleHathaway Jones’s CEO has found a promising candidate to open the company’s flagship store in Shanghai. Should a revelation on the Internet disqualify her now? -
The New Tools of Trade
Labor Magazine ArticleToday, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […] -
What We Do and Don’t Know About Worker Representation on Boards
Labor Digital ArticlePoor relations between labor and management are bad for the economy. -
The Other Kind of Inequality, Explained
Pay gaps are rising between companies more than within them. -
Is the Tight Labor Market Due to Fewer Workers — or Fewer Hours Worked?
Economic cycles and trends Digital ArticleNew research finds that some employees, particularly high-earning men, are choosing to work less. -
Corporations in the Age of Inequality
Economics Big IdeaInequality isn’t just about individuals — it’s risen between companies, too.
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Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign business model. While the firm has... -
Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican, faced off in a... -
Jieliang Phone Home! (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators-bright and capable young men and (mostly) women... -
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (D)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This supplements the (A) case by summarizing key developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory,... -
The Panic of 1873 and the "Long Depression" (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7525. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes must decide whether to sign the Bland-Allison Act and commit the United States to minting... -
Clair
Management Case Study11.95View Details Clair was founded with a simple mission: to expedite America's workers access to their hard-earned wages. In the headwinds of the COVID-19 pandemic, the... -
South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa's democracy persists, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition - the African National Congress,... -
Blue Ocean Strategy + Beyond Disruption Collection (2 Books)
Management Book55.00View Details The two landmark books, "Blue Ocean Strategy" and "Beyond Disruption," that together challenge everything you thought you knew about winning the future.... -
OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of... -
Uber: The Turbulent Rise of "Everyone's Private Driver"
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The meteoric rise of ride-sharing firm Uber illustrates how gig-economy firms can grow to prominence and disrupt older, mature industries. Yet Uber's... -
Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his... -
The Environment, Development and Participation: the Dilemmas of Asociacion Civil Labor
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Asociacion Civil Labor is a private non-profit organization founded in 1981 in llo, a city located in an important mining and fishing region in southern... -
Unleashing Human Magic at Best Buy
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case examines the transformation of Best Buy under CEO Hubert Joly's leadership from 2012. Facing significant business challenges, including competition... -
Tony's Chocolonely: The Pursuit of Growth With Purpose
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The case, and its accompanying pedagogical material, offers a unique perspective on CSR-based transformational entrepreneurship, looking at a startup... -
France Telecom (C): An Unprecedented Trial
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom... -
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
22.99View Details Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite--journalists, managers,... -
Accounting for Productivity Growth
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Introduces students to the arithmetic of the accounting for national productivity growth. It defines labor productivity, capital productivity, and total... -
Soccer Balls Made for Children by Children? Child Labor in Pakistan (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The case describes an international agreement to phase out child labor in soccer-ball manufacturing. This high-profile agreement, which resolves major... -
US Foods: Driving Post-Pandemic Success?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In November 2021, US Foods CEO Pietro Satriano must decide his company's trajectory following the COVID-19 pandemic. US Foods suffered due to business... -
Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Toyota Argentina (TASA) and the union representing automotive industry workers in the country had been working together since 2011 to address the challenges...
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Let First-Level Supervisors Do Their Job
Labor Magazine ArticlePerforming well as a first-level supervisor is like walking the circus high wire. In both positions, the ability to maintain one’s balance when shifting forces pull in opposite directions is a measure of one’s success. First-level supervisors must be able to harmonize the demands of management, the demands of the collective work force (often represented […] -
A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
Organizational Development Digital ArticlePlatforms have rewritten the contract between workers and companies. Here's how gig workers and creators are starting to push back. -
Tapping a Risky Labor Pool
Organizational Development Magazine Article... -
Is Germany a Model for Managers?
Labor Magazine ArticleMost American managers have a hard time making sense of Germany. It has a fraction of the resources and less than one-third the population of the United States. Labor costs are higher, paid vacations are at least three times as long, and strong unions are deeply involved at all levels of business, from the local […] -
The Fundamental Human Relationship with Work
Labor AudioA conversation with anthropologist James Suzman about how our understanding of labor has changed over time. -
Quality of Work Life—Learning from Tarrytown
Labor Magazine ArticleAt this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself -
Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign business model. While the firm has... -
AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleMachine learning is increasingly capable of complex analysis. -
Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican, faced off in a...