gig economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members of Section B, they had something... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

18 Nov 2020
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The number one problem in the economy is that employees in the small gig sector are really struggling: Harvard Professor

10 Mar 2024
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The Biggest Perk of Gig Work Might Also Be Its Downfall

21 Apr 2020
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The Future of Project Work

Keywords: project work; gig economy; Remote work

25 Sep 2019
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Not All Digital Platforms Make It To The Finish Line

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Gentera into the largest microfinance firm in the Americas. Rodríguez’s interest in using microloans to invest in developing economies was first sparked at HBS in 1994 when he helped organize the Latin American Conference. Through a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

useful when jobs of the future are still being invented? Will jobs even exist or are we moving to a world of projects and gig work? How do you make sense of all this and more? In What the Heck Do I Do With My Life? Ravi Venkatesan makes... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

to serve as a director at York Street. “Also, I knew I wanted to come back and be part of what was happening in Sri Lanka.” A six-month strategy consulting gig the pair pitched to Sri Lanka’s Urban Development Authority, the government... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing use of smartphones in... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

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A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy

How to Thrive in a Gig Economy

Glue for the High-Skill Gig Economy

The gig economy connects the skilled

What is a gig economy and how to navigate it?

4 Ways to Maximize Disruption in the Gig Economy

Building the On-Demand Workforce (Report)

Thinking about the future of work in the gig economy using the experience of consultants

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