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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Right? Like treat people with respect. Fair is fair. You can fix it. You know, my parents were always like, you know, complaining is for losers. You can fix it. You know? So all of those things. It was a classic middle-class background....
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- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
dancing. One hundred and fifty nine middle-class children from diverse backgrounds in a northeastern USA metropolitan area completed the study in 2011. The development of ToM is associated with decreases in self-esteem, which in turn...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at one of the nation's leading...
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by David A. Thomas
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that trouble was coming, just as the fact that in the United States consumer consumption has gone from 65 percent to 70 percent of GDP since 1970. The idea that the United States can maintain 300 million people in a broadly middle-class...
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- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
mattering for current tax policy is the "Buffett Rule" debate. The Buffett Rule would ensure that people with substantial incomes from investments paid average tax rates at least as high as middle-class workers. Both sides of this debate...
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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
middle-class Indians could already afford to buy. The opulence also justified the high prices and created a natural market because these were luxurious garments that could be worn at festive occasions such as weddings, when people spent...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
of the population, 130 million people, have reached middle-class status, spawning a growing consumer-driven economy. Auto sales, for example, grew by 38 percent, to 964,700 units, during the first five months of this year compared with...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
from college than middle-class and affluent kids. PELP demonstrates the immediate impact of a class gift. Funded by the 40th Reunion gift from the HBS Class of 1963, PELP was launched in 2003 to see if HBS could help narrow the urban...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
new century.” What strikes you most about China’s economic development over the last few decades? If you had told me in 1979 that 350 million Chinese would be able to lift themselves out of poverty into something that resembles a View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
goods, let alone political power, and as they are acquiring a share in this economy, they're buying cars and houses, and credit is fueling a lot of the current boom. Many of these participants in the economy just haven't had access to very basic things that not only...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
economic development over the last few decades? A: If you had told me in 1979 that 350 million Chinese would be able to lift themselves out of poverty into something that resembles a middle-class existence, I would have sent you for...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
most middle-class Indians could already afford to buy. The opulence also justified the high prices and created a natural market because these were luxurious garments that could be worn at festive occasions such as weddings, when people...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
customers by appealing to digital savvy, middle-class customers that QNB Finansbank was lacking for a long time. By the end of 2016, it accounted for 16% of QNB Finansbank's deposits. With the support of the top management, Atan was able...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
turn has contributed to rising health care costs. According to a study published by the RAND Corporation, health care spending from 1999 to 2009 wiped out the economic gains of the typical American middle-class family. “If we solve our...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
distributional side they [the plan’s authors] seem to be sending signals that they don't want this to be criticized as just a tax cut that privileges people at the top. But they have some work to do. I think it's not easy to sell this as a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to the other half of the coalition that you work with. What are the key things from their perspective? Are they more stable than this rapidly evolving worker set of needs? Lee: I think what they’re trying to do is, they’re trying to surface through employers View Details