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- 27 Mar 2014
- News
Young workers change jobs frequently, study shows
- 15 Feb 2018
- News
Young workers love cities. So what’s a suburban company to do?
- 2025
- Working Paper
Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers
By: Francis Dillon, Edward L. Glaeser and William Kerr
We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020.
American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment
has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is... View Details
Keywords: Isolation; Segregation; Mobility; Learning; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Demographics
Dillon, Francis, Edward L. Glaeser, and William Kerr. "Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-044, March 2025.
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
wants to hire and then applies to the US government to obtain the visa. Young workers account for a large portion of skilled immigrants, with 90 percent of H-1B workers under... View Details
- 17 Sep 2019
- News
Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life
- November 2022
- Case
Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights
By: Christopher Stanton and George Gonzalez
The case presents the founding vision and early days of a young startup that seeks to empower delivery drivers with tools and transparency. The company's flagship mobile app has been taken up by tens of thousands of delivery drivers across major U.S. cities who use it... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Compensation and Benefits; Technology Industry; San Francisco
Stanton, Christopher, and George Gonzalez. "Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights." Harvard Business School Case 823-072, November 2022.
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
politely agrees to the selfie, but she’s clearly not in her element, leaving one to wonder how a shy, 22-year-old established an eponymous company and then built it into a household name. The answer lies in the grit and determination that she possessed from a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
trickiest aspects of the project, allowed workers to relocate the stacks underground. This move made it possible to open up the main floor, add a new entrance, and increase capacity by about 41,000 square feet for office and gathering... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
Founds Care.com 2009 Named one of Fortune’s Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs 2011 Named Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum 2012 Launches WomenUp as Henry Crown Fellow 2014 Care.com IPO Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO, Care.com As a child in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
former boss at Citicorp, her social worker mother, her physician grandfather, her husband -- she is also justifiably proud of her own accomplishments. After nine years in consumer banking at Citicorp, in 1985 Marshall was hired as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
loving parents, both of whom had grown up in the inner city. They sent me to private school and sheltered me from the crime of Detroit.” But then, one month after being diagnosed with cancer, Sundy’s father died. Young Rob was soon in... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- October 2011
- Article
The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes
This article provides a new, empirically driven application of the dynamic Mirrleesian framework by studying a feasible and potentially powerful tax reform: age-dependent labor income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the... View Details
Weinzierl, Matthew C. "The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes." Review of Economic Studies 78, no. 4 (October 2011): 1490–1518. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-114, May 2011.)
- November 2020
- Article
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda
By: Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either... View Details
Alfonsi, Livia, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, and Anna Vitali. "Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda." Econometrica 88, no. 6 (November 2020): 2369–2414.
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
KKR worked with Goldman Sachs and Ernst & Young to increase financial literacy among workers getting payouts and made the workshops mandatory. “Our goal from the beginning was to build wealth for this... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman