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- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
were produced by small self-starter companies. Together, smaller firms contributed 375,000 full-time equivalent jobs of the 2 million Internet-related jobs, and this work included people selling products on Amazon, eBay, and Etsy as well as View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
to specialize because of the advantage they are able to acquire through their social networks. “If your group is concentrated, you are making an extra premium over what others in the industry are making, and over what other broadly View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
and self-employed taxpayers; large businesses; and exempt organizations such as nonprofits and state and local governments. But Rossotti regards the most important accomplishment of his five-year tenure at the IRS-he stepped down in...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
that the share of total household income from self-employment versus outside wages increased 16 percent. That is, these new businesses were successful enough to contribute significantly to household income. "The newly self-employed...
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- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
with serious consequences to firms and society in general. Annemarie Scholberlev quoted John Kenneth Galbraith, who reminded us of a cause of poor predictions when he said " those employed or self-employed who tell of the future do...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) noted that small...
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- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
that want to add simple text incentives to customers, for example, or for self-employed entrepreneurs who want to save, but lack the time or inclination to attend meetings. And cell phones are a simple way to reach many people....
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by Kim Girard
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market Authors:Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda, and M. Julia Prats Abstract Our paper contributes to the studies on the relationship between workers' human capital and their decision to become View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender identity in dual-career couples with Jennifer Berdahl of the University of Toronto. McGinn is involved in three related projects: The first, with HBS colleague Mukti Khaire, studies self-employed women in India and their different...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
she hasn't been a regular contributor to Class Notes, but the Crestone, Colorado, resident is more than willing to catch up over the phone. She speaks candidly about acting as her ailing mother's primary-care manager and the path from Parker Brothers marketing...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
developing world as well. With HBS associate professor Mukti Khaire and doctoral student Alexandra Feldberg, McGinn is looking at a 30-year period of change in India driven, in part, by self-employed women entering into the country's...
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
spent most of his career as a self-employed consultant. Though he was very good at engineering, my grandfather wasn’t very good as a businessman, particularly when it came to collecting the fees he was owed by his clients. To put it...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
founder of Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa, and Ela Bhatt, Indian activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. The interviews, many on video, are intended to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
become an independent self-employed income earner. Also examined is how education for a career is becoming more important than ever, but it may not necessarily be a college degree. Why and how higher education is having to evolve as a...
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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
I show that these policies made families with foreign-born members 21% less likely to have uninsured children compared to the pre-policy baseline. These households were also 20% more likely to be self-employed and 28% more likely to own...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
set of ground rules limit the discussion of work matters at home) but claim their experience attending HBS as a married couple prepared them well: During their time at Soldiers Field, they had a “no discussing cases in bed” mandate. “One of the best things about being...
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