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- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
markets forecasts health statistics household income intellectual property labor laws local data macroeconomic data per capita income taxes Languages Multiple Back to top
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
exploiting a Nester report’s connection to a mortgage’s residual income analysis? Residual income is the amount of disposable household income left over after paying for all costs of living. That analysis doesn’t include car-repair...
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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
articulated by feminist scholars who early recognized that household labor had been read out of the record, that determinations about what is identified, measured, and counted create the “real economy.” As...
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Manufacturing
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
strong incentives to impose restrictions on women’s promiscuity. “The gender gaps in labor market participation, micro-entrepreneurship, or business ownership more generally seem to also partly reflect this social norm against women.”...
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by Kara Baskin
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Emerging Markets | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/china-data-online English-language data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China. 49 314 Add My Librarian Item China Data Online English-language data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Go To Database...
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Country & International | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
for public health, environment, education, and labor force. CEIC Data https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/ceic-data Macroeconomic, industrial, and financial time series for China and other countries. 49 311 CEIC Data...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
other research here. More Info The Pass-through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao & Edison Yu AUG 2020 What is the impact of uncertainty on individual outcomes? Based on...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Manufacturing Company. Blondie Goes to Leisureland: A Westinghouse Game. Mansfield, Ohio: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 1940.The goal of this game is to reach “Leisureland,” where an “all-electric home” awaits to ease the burden of View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
technocrats than the country had ever seen and handed them their goals and benchmarks. When property-tax bills landed in mailboxes several weeks later, they reflected across-the-board cuts. The deepest, 30 percent, went to households with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute's study of U.S. labor productivity growth between 1995 and 2000. In...
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Men’s Discomfort with Women’s Health Starves Tech Companies Serving Female Customers - Blog: RaGE Report
likely to want to work on them, many men are resistant, or simply refuse to work on companies that focus on products targeting women According to Professor Koning: “Because men make up the majority of the labor force, you have this gap in...
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Herbert F. Johnson
Johnson built his company through extensive advertising (it was the first to establish company sponsorship of a radio show), and in many ways, changed the way Americans lived. He introduced such diverse household products as: “Raid”- the...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business births rose by 13 percent among...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
40,000 US households in 2008 and over 30,000 in 2013. The first surprise? Despite the expansion of online content between 2008 and 2013 (think Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube), the number of sites and amount of time spent on them remained...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size...
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
risks that globalization entails. All managers now face a business environment where international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock market booms and busts, social and View Details