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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
microscope. Again, myth and reality were tangled. "Clearly the last fifteen years in Asia have been extraordinary," Porter said. "The rising tide in Asia has lifted almost all boats." But the real issue, Porter explained, was how Asia...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the Financial Times. In founding his real estate investment firm, he and his partners paid...
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- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(1998) and Mishel, Bernstein and Schmitt (1999) provide a comprehensive picture of wealth inequality in America, while Conley (1999) clearly points out that many Black Americans have been left out of this economic boom. In real terms,...
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
she said, have purchased electric vehicles. She believes that paying her staff a living wage is just good business. “We increase our retention rate by paying people enough to live on, enough so that they don’t require a second job.” She...
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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the net beneficiary countries from that decline, from the US attracting 50 percent down to 40 percent? Kerr: It’s been, I think, a broad-based increase. There used to be three or four—the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and so forth—that were like the View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509007 Columbus Tubing: Steel Is View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
whether AI eliminates or amplifies the problems like bias and wage discrimination that have plagued the system in the past. Employers and regulators are just beginning to grapple with how to factor AI into the policing of employment...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
our economy. And so we’ve worked closely together with Joe and the project, as well as with Rajiv and his colleagues at the Schultz Family Foundation, to be able to track what actually bears out in real people’s careers, millions at a...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign' Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation 13, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
matter if competitors know your strategy, says Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes. The real question is, do your employees know your strategy? Research indicates that less than 50 percent of employees do. Companies that withhold strategy...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for three consecutive years but have not received a material raise or change in employment status or title—so, essentially, been in the same job more or less for roughly the same wages for three consecutive years, prior to Covid. We...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and not a lot of money. And she’d never worked outside the home. So she was forced to cobble together a number of part-time jobs—grading papers, working for a music company—to keep us afloat. Over the years, she found more and more stable work and got a View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
question whether the wages that they can work in some of those jobs are questionable. And second, for what I had said earlier, a lot of frontline work doesn’t actually put you on a path to a meaningful career. And so one of the things we...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
increases price dispersion within narrow categories, is consistent with a standard vertical differentiation model in the presence of price controls. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54120 Using Online Prices for Measuring View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
utilization. Even in occupations highly exposed to immigrants’ competition, there were no employment or wage losses among natives, suggesting that political discontent was unlikely to have economic roots. Consistent with this...
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Dina Gerdeman
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details