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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
and in government, to rapidly rising incomes and tax revenues. We haven't had that for twenty years, and now blue-collar and middle-class people sense those days may be gone forever. You state that high wages are a key component of a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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My Real Career
income statement. My office is now my closet, a haven where I hide from my four kids and the cleaning ladies who run my house. My suits are nothing but a dusty memento of my former life, occupying the black hole behind my maternity...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor
procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, and the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
poor old people. We’ve scrimped on retirement funding because it’s a way of hiding the fact that we have stagnant and falling real wages. We maintain current incomes by gutting long-term savings. It’s the phenomenon of a society that eats...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Milwaukee area cope with the lack of large grocery stores in their neighborhoods. "Retailers tend to think that everyone who lives in the inner city is poor," he says, "but that simply isn't true. The average income may be low, but the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
and retaining faculty as well. On the incoming side, the tightening supply of new faculty is a concern, not just for us but also for business schools more broadly. At HBS, we seek out faculty candidates with a strong commitment to...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Books
accessible to people of all income levels. Zuboff and Maxmin state their aim as “the beginning of a conversation” challenging present assumptions about capitalism, commerce, and the logic of economic growth. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
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- 23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
cultural and educational initiatives in New York, including the Central Park Conservancy. “Central Park is the heart and soul of New York,” he says, his face lighting up. “People of all ages, income levels, races, and nationalities walk...
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Susan Young
- 20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success
this epiphany that this is where I belong.” For five years, Ruhr helped women in three different camps, teaching basic technical skills (how to make soap) and, more importantly, how to save money, as part of ARC’s Income Generation...
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Jill Radsken
- 24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business
later, he had completed his active-duty service commitment and was out. "I left the Navy on a Friday and started at HBS the next week," says McGee. "I didn't know what a balance sheet was. I didn't know what an income statement was. All I...
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- 30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
employment and supervision methods in China would come under pressure as the education and income of workers increase. Ultimately, Shih says the discussion turned to the idea of exploring ways to “play fairly” in global trade. “I really...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold
affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the poorest districts of Brazil’s largest cities. Spendwisor.com enables consumer electronics purchasers...
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- 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
good with scarce resources. I believed that and I still believe that. Then the question becomes what happens then when we find ourselves in a moment when we're not getting ideal societal outcomes, right? When we're experiencing existential climate crisis, persistent...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
of all Black engineers attended an HBCU. There's 101 HBCUs today, and there's 300,000 students attending HBCUs, 70 percent of those students receive Pell Grants, which is for people who come from households with $25,000 or less of annual View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Keeping the Beat
royalties or scoring for something are things that I can do from my bedroom that I have the skill set to do—versus performing, which is no longer bringing in income in these corona times. May we be so brave as to come out of this pandemic...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
finance. Wilson then addresses issues central to the present-day political discussion, such as the fairness of US tax policy, the social safety net, health care, and income inequality. Faculty Books Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial performance but may not know how to read...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall
with New Hampshire Audubon to work on global conservation issues in Costa Rica. What are the keys to success in working on environmental issues in a developing country? Costa Rica is known for its environmental ethic, but even there you have to be especially sensitive...
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