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- 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
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
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
- Portrait Project
Linda Li
My mom, a former banker, had started waiting tables to earn minimum wage. They believed that America embraces individuality and rewards effort, so they told me to study hard and dream big. Our labor gradually bore fruit as my family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Stephen Fuller Remembered
Fuller An authority on labor relations and organizational behavior, Stephen H. Fuller (IA ’43, MBA 2/’47, DCS ’58), the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, died last January in Belmont,... View Details
- Web
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
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
Political and Social Systems. Every country's political system affects its product, labor, and capital markets. In socialist societies like China, for instance, workers cannot form independent trade unions in the labor market, which... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the ‘Open’ Workspace on Human... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep the illness from decimating... View Details
- October 2019 (Revised March 2021)
- Background Note
Modern Automation (B): Robotics
By: William R. Kerr and James Palano
Driven largely by advances in perception and situational awareness, robots in the 2010s were gaining functionality that allowed them to be applied to fundamentally new types of work. The expanding range of new tasks that could be completed by machines had significant... View Details
Keywords: Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Future Of Work; Technology Commercialization; Information Technology; Commercialization; Employment; AI and Machine Learning
Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Modern Automation (B): Robotics." Harvard Business School Background Note 820-069, October 2019. (Revised March 2021.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,... View Details
- July 1995 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
Baseball Strike, The
Describes structural conditions in the American baseball industry in 1995. Although this case covers conditions leading to the 1994-95 strike, it is designed primarily for analysis of the structural tensions that arise between suppliers, buyers, and rivals as industry... View Details
Keywords: Industry Structures; Sports; Labor and Management Relations; Sports Industry; United States
McGahan, Anita M., John F. McGuire, and Julia Kou. "Baseball Strike, The." Harvard Business School Case 796-059, July 1995. (Revised September 1997.)
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Apr 2021
- News
Why Is a Daily Commute Good for You?
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What can historical economic recoveries teach us about our current crisis? One of the things that makes the pandemic so tricky is that there is no precedent that feels quite like it.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
Edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by David Plunkert According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States’ current recession began in February, just as the first impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic began to slow consumer spending and spur... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
Fayelle Ouane (MBA 2009) founded Suguba to create transformative change on the African continent. In this interview, she discusses the path to achieving that deep impact. “So I'm originally from Mali, but I grew up in Switzerland. And I was extremely fortunate to have... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- News
Why Xiaomi Can't Succeed Without India
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
Mark Tatum (MBA 1998) On his first day at HBS, Mark Tatum (MBA 1998) went to the career office, told them he wanted a job in the business of sports, and came home with a printout of every relevant alumnus in the HBS database. Then he hit the phones. "Remember, this is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Effectively By: Casciaro, T., F. Gino, and M. Kouchaki Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51004 February 2016 Journal of Accounting & Economics Labor Unemployment Insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details