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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
reallocation" looming? The data shows a decrease in direct US sourcing from China, with low-wage locations (e.g., Vietnam) and nearshoring/friendshoring alternatives (e.g., Mexico) gaining in import share. In this session, we will discuss...
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- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
area, some of them from other countries, including China. However, most of the jobs, in assembling and packing the components, are of necessity low-wage in nature. Regardless of the number of jobs it can create, manufacturing activity...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
workforce participation at the same time? What can be done to create opportunity for the 40% of American workers stuck in low-wage jobs? This session will feature recent research from the School's Managing...
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
2022 Podcast Managing the Future of Work Iron Mountain's hybrid workforce transformation Joe Fuller 23 Feb 2022 Podcast Managing the Future of Work MFW research: Rethinking low-wage work Bill Kerr 13 Feb 2022 News Boston Globe With Job...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Workers By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
popular narrative holds that, after many years of declining leverage, labor is newly empowered. Whether this assessment is true or not, workers at the low-end of the pay scale don’t seem to be securing significant and lasting gains. View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
down from 17.7 million in 1983—there has been a surge in pro-labor activity among low-wage workers as of late. Damon Silvers (MBA 1995, JD 1996), policy director for the AFL-CIO, says he’s heartened by these...
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- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Concern for those hit hard by COVID-19 was also behind an open letter penned by Mendu and classmates Amy Villaseñor (MBA 2020) and Steve Moore (MBA 2020), urging FORTUNE 500 CEOs to treat low-wage essential View Details
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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
skills,” she stresses. Concern for those hit hard by COVID-19 was also behind an open letter penned by Mendu and classmates Amy Villaseñor (MBA 2020) and Steve Moore (MBA 2020), urging FORTUNE 500 CEOs to treat low-wage essential View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
segregation and could be contributing to growing wage inequality among workers in the last generation. Decades ago, companies employed their own janitors, cafeteria workers, and other low-wage support staff....
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for... 23 Feb 2022 Podcast Managing the Future of Work MFW research: Rethinking low-wage work Bill Kerr 2022 Working Paper The...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the direction of education and training, from basic skills through post-secondary credentials. Joe Fuller welcomes Lorraine Stomski, Walmart's Senior Vice President of Enterprise Leadership and Learning. Joe Fuller: Frontline, low-wage...
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