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A New Way to Rate Retailers on Providing Good Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Executives have a choice in how they run their operations. In my research, I’ve found that retailers using an employee-centered operations strategy, which I call the good jobs strategy , have two strategic advantages. Some include depreciation of inventory; some don’t. Both ways can be profitable.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

In his recent Harvard Business Review article, Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom presents research on the role that firms play in explaining rising wage inequality in the U.S. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.