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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
Jeffrey Madrick (MBA '71) has for many years been an award-winning economics and financial writer and editor in both print (Business Week, Money) and broadcast (NBC, ESPN) journalism. The author of, most recently, The End of Affluence (Random House), he is a visiting... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
Phil Angelides, a California state treasurer for eight years, is no stranger to big money and politics. But as chairman of Congress’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission looking into the 2008 Wall Street collapse, he was shocked. “I am no political naïf, but I was... View Details
- December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 (Abridged Version)
Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Advantage; Labor Unions; Operations; Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Retail Industry; United States
Cespedes, Frank V. "Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 (Abridged Version)." Harvard Business School Case 709-423, December 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
- May 1982 (Revised June 1982)
- Case
Air Traffic Controllers
By: Michael Beer
On August 3, 1981 President Ronald Reagan terminated 12,000 air traffic controllers, members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, for violating their no-strike oath. Provides background on the human resources policies and practices of the Federal... View Details
Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Labor and Management Relations; Government and Politics; Labor Unions; Negotiation; Employees; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Beer, Michael. "Air Traffic Controllers." Harvard Business School Case 482-056, May 1982. (Revised June 1982.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
The (Heterogenous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
The effects of private equity buyouts on employment, productivity, and job reallocation vary
tremendously with macroeconomic and credit conditions, across private equity groups, and by
type of buyout. We reach this conclusion by examining the most extensive... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity Buyouts; Impact; Private Equity; Economics; Employment; Performance Productivity; Wages
Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda. "The (Heterogenous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts." Management Science (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 26371 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 20-030. Related discussion published as “Private Equity Buyout and Their Effects,” VoxEU, 2019.)
- October 1987 (Revised January 1991)
- Case
Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (Condensed)
By: Michael Beer
Beer, Michael. "Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 488-018, October 1987. (Revised January 1991.)
- March 1981 (Revised August 1985)
- Case
Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (B)
By: Michael Beer
Beer, Michael. "Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (B)." Harvard Business School Case 481-172, March 1981. (Revised August 1985.)
- March 1981 (Revised March 1985)
- Case
Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (A)
By: Michael Beer
Beer, Michael. "Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (A)." Harvard Business School Case 481-171, March 1981. (Revised March 1985.)
- 09 Sep 2015
- News
Corporate Efforts to Address Social Problems Have Limits
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
What Impact? Resist Taking Credit for Results You Can't Achieve
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
Can Garment Factories Become Safer?
- 05 Aug 2020
- News
Remote work really does mean longer days -- and more meetings
- 22 May 2018
- News
Federal tax cuts won’t boost workers’ wages — here’s why
- 02 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
- 12 Jul 2020
- News
Sticky Capital Controls
- 22 May 2020
- News
Rebuilding the Economy Around Good Jobs
- 07 Jul 2020
- News
Research: How Workers Shift from One Industry to Another
Keywords: Michelle R. Weise
- September 15, 2022
- Article
Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Thomaz Teodorovicz
The adoption of work-from-anywhere by organizations might help smaller towns and communities across the country attract talent and reverse brain drain, by incentivizing remote workers to migrate to such locations. We evaluate how the Tulsa Remote program, which... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Thomaz Teodorovicz. "Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program." Brookings Series: Reimagining Modern-day Markets and Regulations (September 15, 2022).
- July 1, 2022
- Editorial
New Transparency Rule Helps Rein in Health Care Costs
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Cynthia A. Fisher
Over the last year, consumer prices have grown 60% faster than wages. Employers can help their employees contend with this high inflation by addressing a long-running source: health care costs. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Cynthia A. Fisher. "New Transparency Rule Helps Rein in Health Care Costs." Boston Herald (July 1, 2022).
- March 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The
Explores the texture of mass unemployment during the Great Depression in the United States. Business leaders offer assessments of the Great Depression and the New Deal. View Details
Smith, Jason Scott. "Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The." Harvard Business School Case 804-163, March 2004. (Revised November 2004.)