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- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration research focused on studying immigration through shifts in the supply of workers to a particular labor market. But Kerr and his fellow researchers took a rare route by looking at skilled...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
sold—including growth-focused investments at Publishing and Online, as well as compensation for faculty who teach Executive Education programs. For fiscal 2019, a University-wide accounting change shifted a portion of the School’s contingent View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-003.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
shareholders' meeting in 2004 in Leipzig. While rival carmakers such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, and Lamborghini have been happy to locate where labor costs are cheaper, Porsche wanted to ensure its "Made in Germany"...
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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
out ways to make more of it and use less of it. So the assumption that we’re not going to have supply and demand responses to this is an audacious one.” MME completed construction of its plant in February 2005 and quickly ramped up...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
difference to the entire region. You can see the prosperity returning to the villages.” The impacts of this prosperity have been significant. A local credit union has replaced an abusive loan-shark system; farmers (mostly women) have learned how to buy View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
growth at the firm level. Importantly, however, we also document substantial crowding out of non-treated firms' employment within local labor markets. While the overall net employment effect was positive, it was close to zero in tight...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the View Details
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by George Serafeim
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs' diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
eliminated.Fuller: What sort of costs are you talking about?Moret: In particular, labor costs. Also real estate, but labor costs. I mean, this is actually a theme that runs through the whole Moretti book is...
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- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
issues, and basic survival needs. You need to be able to show people how preserving the environment can help them economically. For example, we created a buffer zone around a national forest by establishing an "extractive reserve." We started a business using local...
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- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
stakeholder theory, institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Biomass Supply for Biofuel Production: Estimates for the United States and Canada Authors:Subbu Kumarappan,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
economics perspective. I thought maybe that was an approach, but, you know, there are all these paradigms, economics is so locked in this paradigm of demand and supply and prices, clear markets, and things like that. A few years later...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and oDesk make it possible to find...
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