Labor Force Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

Make or Break

BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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

Portrait Project

Linda Li

My mom, a former banker, had started waiting tables to earn minimum wage. They believed that America embraces individuality and rewards effort, so they told me to study hard and dream big. Our labor gradually bore fruit as my family... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he later joined View Details

13 Dec 2011
News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

and actions that boost the ability of companies in the United States to compete in the global economy and raise American living standards. The announcement included the introduction of a new digital forum dedicated to the topic and comes two weeks after the School... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

state and local governments, balanced budget requirements force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Most states are required by law to carry balanced budgets and can only borrow to fund capital projects, such... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

accelerates the process of knowledge creation at HBS and leverages the expertise of the School’s faculty. For the 2022–2023 academic year, the BiGS Visiting Fellows’ work centers on race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. BUSINESS AS A View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

01 Dec 2003
News

Flex Time

(MBA 1976) of Extrusion Technology agrees. “I enjoy creating an environment that allows our employees to learn and change,” he says. “The labor force we hire from is generally less skilled, and we’re able to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

amateurish creations as similar in value to experts' creations and expected others to share their opinions. We show that labor leads to love only when labor results in successful completion of tasks; when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

demonstrate to helping the farmworking community and themselves, the students receive ‘investments’ from a variety of sources, including the RFDF and individuals. More than 200 students are participating in the Exchange, and about 50... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

27 Sep 2019

Military Visit Day

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA), this event is designed for prospective applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, View Details

28 Sep 2018

Military Prospective Student Visit Day

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA), this event is designed for prospective applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Press, 2009 Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently simple to participate in the market, as opposed to transacting outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided into learning teams of five or six individuals. The exercise was... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

services, this month announced its participation on Dish Network's Web-based Sling Box service. Not every company is susceptible to decoupling, however. In some cases where it is too costly, labor intensive,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help that these built-in features... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

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