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American Business History Records | Baker Library
resource for understanding the business, social, and cultural world of 19th-century America. Boston Manufacturing Company Records Administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hire ex-convicts. And so after their apprenticeships almost all of them are placed in jobs. And after a year and a half or two, these women come out and they are productive citizens rather than people who have been in jail for two for two... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
enterprises. While the south corridor's exhibit items focus on these industries, materials hung in the north corridor depict aspects of modern marketing, displaying advertising materials for products and services such as bicycles,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Minister) Dr. Manmohan Singh. Up until that time, government controls on production (referred to as the “license raj” or “permit raj”) created a stagnant environment for competition and entrepreneurial activity. MBAs who came home during... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
consume. + ONLINE Isn’t it likely that the domestic need and want for better health care, education, water, and other basics—all across the socioeconomic spectrum—will drive continued dramatic growth in China? Is it a question of how well the economy can retool to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
manufactured goods go to waste in the production process, Philip Behn says, because items come out too thick, too thin, or otherwise not perfect. “So we put our own private label on them and now we sell broken pretzel bits.” As much as 15... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive systems to compete in... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
So instead of using it to persuade and project your message onto people, Twitter can be a tool to learn about your customers, as another way to get information about what they’re thinking. SG: And also new product ideas: Are people... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
attempting to mitigate or stave off recessions. In addition to enjoying a more satisfying life, which presumably is every government’s goal for its people, a “happy” population is likely to be more productive than a disgruntled one — also... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer science, to fill the employment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
products — and such cheerleading is literally paying off. One company that has certainly ridden — and perhaps created — the wave of increased interest in the market is LeapFrog, the developer of the LeapPad system, a computerized device... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
More frequent quotas can motivate underperforming sales reps. StockPhoto Personal selling is a key ingredient in making the American economy go. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 10 percent of the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
would have you, and themselves, believe in how 'hard' they work it's about productivity in spite of how workers report about how hard any of us 'feel' we work." TNoble101, arguing for better economic justice for overtime workers,... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
starting with Levitt's prediction of a global marketplace ruled by standardized products sold at low prices. "Everyone says the article is wrong, and everyone reads it twenty years later. Why?" asked Abdelal. Tedlow portrayed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
not owning assets, and give them a product that allows them to do it in a seamless, frictionless manner, that's the success that we're trying to achieve. “My biggest takeaway from GMP has been the idea that if we collaborate well, if we... View Details