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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
benefits." As with his health insurance study, Olds acknowledges personal motivations for looking into the effects of SNAP. "I've never seen my mother working harder than when we were on Food Stamps, so I was skeptical that people would reduce their View Details
- Profile
Suchita Prasad
responsibility for training and development, talent acquisition and labor negotiations. Coming to HBS has truly been transformative for me. I have gained an insight into business as a way of life. I had focused so much on the single silo...
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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic...
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- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
immediately despite not knowing what the incumbent is up to based on the preannouncement observed. Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Shoes Are Cute: Cognition Can Both Hurt and Help Motivated Moral Reasoning Authors:Paharia, Neeru,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 2017
- Case
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact...
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Scaling Technologies;
Youth Unemployment;
Innovation In Nonprofits;
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Cash Flow;
Labor;
Employment;
Commercialization;
Problems and Challenges;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Africa;
Nigeria
Alvarez, Jose B., and Sarah Mehta. "International Institute of Tropical Agriculture." Harvard Business School Case 518-034, December 2017.
- September 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Supplement
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (D)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Saloni Chaturvedi
This supplements the (A) case by summarizing key developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh...
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Apparel;
Bangladesh;
Corporate Responsibility;
Human Rights;
Supply Chains;
Labor;
Working Conditions;
Supply Chain;
Safety;
Rights;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Bangladesh
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-028, September 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- March 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Saloni Chaturvedi
Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply chain presents an ongoing challenge for managers and an area of debate. Much of the debate approaches the challenge from the perspective of large global apparel brands. This case helps...
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Apparel;
Bangladesh;
Corporate Responsibility;
Human Rights;
Supply Chains;
Labor;
Working Conditions;
Supply Chain;
Safety;
Rights;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Bangladesh
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A)." Harvard Business School Case 317-052, March 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- Portrait Project
Leo Chang
I will run with my baton. My baton smells of gunpowder from the hands of my ancestors, as they led armies into battle to forge a modern China. My baton is dulled by grime from my grandfather's hands, as the one-time physicist toiled in hard View Details
- September 15, 2022
- Article
Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Thomaz Teodorovicz
The adoption of work-from-anywhere by organizations might help smaller towns and communities across the country attract talent and reverse brain drain, by incentivizing remote workers to migrate to such locations. We evaluate how the Tulsa Remote program, which...
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Thomaz Teodorovicz. "Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program." Brookings Series: Reimagining Modern-day Markets and Regulations (September 15, 2022).
- July 1, 2022
- Editorial
New Transparency Rule Helps Rein in Health Care Costs
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Cynthia A. Fisher
Over the last year, consumer prices have grown 60% faster than wages. Employers can help their employees contend with this high inflation by addressing a long-running source: health care costs.
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and Cynthia A. Fisher. "New Transparency Rule Helps Rein in Health Care Costs." Boston Herald (July 1, 2022).
- March 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The
Explores the texture of mass unemployment during the Great Depression in the United States. Business leaders offer assessments of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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Smith, Jason Scott. "Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The." Harvard Business School Case 804-163, March 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
- 11 Dec 2018
- News
William Kerr on Potential Changes to the H1-B Visa Program
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Do Employers Overestimate the Value of a College Degree?
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession This downturn has likely changed...
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- 31 May 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Finding an Open Slot
- 18 Oct 2018
- News
What Will Trump Do Next With Chinese Student Visas?
- 03 Jul 2020
- News
Gig Workers Are Here to Stay. It’s Time to Give Them Benefits.
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Alex Rosenblat
- 04 Jun 2020
- News