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07 Apr 2015
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India's Private Equity Industry Shakes Off Its Doldrums

Keywords: private equity; India; economic trends; developing economies; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined

Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution no one anticipated, nor was it... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

May 2019
Teaching Note

Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?

By: William R. Kerr and Jordan Bach-Lombardo

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-035. View Details

Keywords: UBI; Job Guarantee; Public Policy; EITC; Employment; Labor; Social Issues; Income; Governance; Policy; Welfare

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01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the good times last? Illustration... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jan 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short; Manufacturing; Public Administration; Accounting; Service

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Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library

Collection A range of industrial films including time-motion studies and demonstrations of manufacturing shop processes. Includes films produced by HBS for teaching topics like labor relations and management. To learn more about accessing... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a special trial examiner for the... View Details

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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

skilled labor and logistics infrastructure, were historically American strengths but are now in decline. The U.S. retains some core strengths in clusters, entrepreneurship, and other areas. What can business leaders do to improve U.S.... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business from the 2008–2009 financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

Mar 2012
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A Jobs Compact for America's Future

human capital; how exceptional companies such as Southwest and Kaiser Permanente buck the "maximizing shareholder value" trend with what researchers call "high-road" human resources strategies; and how labor unions and... View Details

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

challenges when starting a company after a layoff.” Here are three risks to weigh carefully and one actionable step if you decide to proceed: 1. High risk of lowering the bar Research provides compelling evidence that worsening labor... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

Summing Up What is the time and place for retention bonuses? Retention bonuses have their time and place but have to be used sparingly, according to many respondents to this month's column. Others were not so sure. Gerald Nanninga perhaps explained the ambivalence... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

2021
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Leisure Beliefs and the Subjective Well-being of Nations

By: Lucia Macchia and A.V. Whillans

Here, we construct a data set of 79 countries (N = 220,000) and explore whether differences in the prioritization of time (leisure) vs. money (work) explain cross-country differences in happiness. Consistent with our predictions, countries whose citizens value leisure... View Details

Keywords: Leisure; Work; Subjective Well-being; Public Policy; Employment; Happiness; Governance; Policy

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The Senseless Submergence of Difference: Engineers, Their Work and Their Careers

By: Leslie Perlow and L. Bailyn

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Working Conditions; Engineering

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July 2015
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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled... View Details

Keywords: Firms; Scientists; Engineers; Inventors; H-1B; Age; Employment; Immigration; United States

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