Internal Labor Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

Francisco A. Lorenzo

Lorenzo took over the fledgling Texas International Airways in 1972 and through major acquisitions including Continental Airlines, he built it into one of the country’s largest airline carriers. Lorenzo was skillful at managing government... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills developed a “natural concern” about... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

trend is not going away. This trend is being driven by two things. The first is the wealth buildup in Asia. The domestic real estate markets in Asia are still small, so Asian real estate investors have turned to Europe and the United... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

foreign direct investment and the impact of investment on human rights and labor standards. Spar is the author of The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of International... View Details

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Jun 2016
News

Up by the Roots

division and in time, had a revelation: “Seeing some of the trends in organic foods, I could see a lot of interest in the return to slow food and family farming,” he recalls. “I had a feeling the ginseng market had to turn around.” +... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

2023
Other Unpublished Work

Urgent: The IMF Must Reform

By: Laura Alfaro, Guillermo Calvo, José de Gregorio, Augusto de la Torre, Roque Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Enrique Mendoza, Ernesto Talvi, Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Andrés Velasco

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; International Finance; Latin America

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Real estate: costs per square foot (commercial)

Loeb Library Producer Price Index Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry databases has average cost per square foot for new construction. International Code Council Provides Building Valuation... View Details

13 May 2016
News

Hate surge pricing? It’s not all bad

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

African-American clientele, have hundreds of products for blondes." In a labor market where youth seems to hold a premium, especially for marketing jobs, this notion is... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

casualties," he said, would be the likely result. Counterterrorism and international affairs have been central elements of Bremer's career. Entering the diplomatic service immediately after graduating from HBS, he embarked on several... View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

and launched a successful advertising campaign that featured a fully mechanized exhibition of Waltham watch production methods that was displayed at international expositions. In 1876, while the rest of the world struggled to emerge from... View Details

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Historical wages by industry

Where do I find historical data on wages for a US industry? US data is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. International data is available from the View Details

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Ta-Wei "David" Huang

management and using causal inference / machine learning tools to solve marketing problems.” It was this motivation that led him to pursue a Ph.D. Initially, David’s familiarity with HBS was limited to the MBA program but he quickly... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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