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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
not minimizing the next periods wage expense. Firms will be seduced into focusing on artifices for minimizing turnover in their highly skilled, white-collar workforce. That’s the wrong issue. COVID has caused many such workers to... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond me! Liesl Pike Moldow’s (MBA ’93) “My Real Career” deserves praise for honesty and love. In the future I will look to my copy of the Bulletin for more than class news. Mike Smedley (AMP 50, 1966) Leamington, England One-Sided... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
look at the statistics, real wage growth among working-class Americans has been relatively stagnant,” said Kaplan. Meanwhile, “the cost of everything a middle-class family pays for — food, energy, education,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
real challenge from the left with the [Bernie] Sanders movement, which would be very upset if leading Democrats compromised and gave Republicans a lot of what they wanted in the tax reform. I think you have a very charged political... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
influence others. Leadership Courage is not theory; this is a book about the real issues of leadership: character, inner fortitude, courage, and identity. For those walking through the fires of life and leadership, this book will be a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the Financial Times.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
she said, have purchased electric vehicles. She believes that paying her staff a living wage is just good business. “We increase our retention rate by paying people enough to live on, enough so that they don’t require a second job.” She... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
microscope. Again, myth and reality were tangled. "Clearly the last fifteen years in Asia have been extraordinary," Porter said. "The rising tide in Asia has lifted almost all boats." But the real issue, Porter explained, was how Asia... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the Financial Times. In founding his real estate investment firm, he and his partners paid... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
matter if competitors know your strategy, says Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes. The real question is, do your employees know your strategy? Research indicates that less than 50 percent of employees do. Companies that withhold strategy... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign' Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation 13, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
utilization. Even in occupations highly exposed to immigrants’ competition, there were no employment or wage losses among natives, suggesting that political discontent was unlikely to have economic roots. Consistent with this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk, or because it helps them reduce the volatility of their portfolio of stocks and bonds because its return is negatively correlated with the returns on those assets. This article... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
increases price dispersion within narrow categories, is consistent with a standard vertical differentiation model in the presence of price controls. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54120 Using Online Prices for Measuring View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne