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- 11 Jan 2021
- News
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
- 09 Mar 2015
- News
Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon Dies at 84
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
going to be successful in the new world that we're moving towards? So one is, I would say just have the confidence that what you're doing is important and the way that you do it matters. Our labor is a really important resource that we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
In 1996, Alejandro Ramirez (MBA 2001) was poised to accept one of two coveted spots in the U.N. Junior Professional Officer Program. For Ramirez, who had spent the previous fifteen months conducting research on economic and human development issues at the World Bank... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
force-sensing technology—which allows a bot to “feel” its way through tasks (and around objects)—ensure that the robots operate with both safety and accuracy. But the robots also possess that most important coworker trait: They’re not trying to steal your job. “The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
industry: labor organizing. For decades, noncompete clauses were written into job contracts to help protect companies from losing intellectual property by restricting when and where employees could work after they departed their current... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
division and in time, had a revelation: “Seeing some of the trends in organic foods, I could see a lot of interest in the return to slow food and family farming,” he recalls. “I had a feeling the ginseng market had to turn around.” + ONLINE web-only content The Hard... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
expect net labor costs for manufacturing in China and the United States to converge by around 2015. As a result of the changing economics, you’re going to see a lot more products ‘Made in the USA’ over the next five years.” Even now some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
single-country economy, and our labor pool is one of the best-educated, most productive, and most innovative in the world,” China Radio International’s CRIenglish.com reported (September 10, 2011). View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
will require support for women at every level of the labor force. “We really are at a turning point for the global economy,” Collenette adds. “Post-pandemic, either we fashion a world where women take their rightful place in every seat at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
succumbed to ongoing protests, announcing in February that it would up the base salary of its employees to at least $9 an hour. Despite statistics that show that unions are in decline throughout the country—the US Department of Labor... View Details
- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,” says Bhargava, “otherwise tens of millions of young Indians who have a dream for the new and emerging India will be disappointed and disheartened, and India would have lost a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations" will be presided over by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
on standardized tests can be found here. Zoë Cullen studies the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
to HBS to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a graduate degree and never expected to become a professor. But in a remarkable HBS career that has spanned four decades and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in... View Details