Michael Lee Stallard
AUGUST 5, 2019
His first step on the slippery slope into unintended addiction came one evening in 1988 when he reached for a sample he had in his office of extra-strength Vicodin (which has acetaminophen and hydrocodone, an opioid) to relieve a tension headache so he could finish seeing patients on that day’s schedule.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2016
In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2018
The idea of customer discrimination influencing the labor market stems from the economic theory of taste-based discrimination, or when some individuals prefer not to interact with people from certain demographics. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 11, 2015
And building a strong employer brand first became a major focus of activity between 2004 and 2008, when in response to the growing competition for talent, leading companies like Unilever , Shell and P&G began to apply the same focus and consistency to their employer branding as they applied to their corporate and consumer branding.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Yelp's timing reflects both a tech-friendly market and the company's current position as the dominant consumer-review web site. When Yelp began in 2004, this would have been a devastating prospect. In a recent sample, nearly one out of every five reviews was filtered. And to some extent, it still is. This is fine, in principle.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2012
And as the smartphone market continues to explode, more parents are passing their phones to their offspring as tools to educate or gadgets to pacify. The combination of a smartphone's intuitive interface and thousands of apps for iPhones and Androids aimed at young children has fast made it a child's favorite plaything.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
150 
Let's personalize your content