Economic And Social Disparities - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big companies, in spite of their wealth,... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

later Twitter acquired competing app Periscope and cut off Meerkat’s access to Twitter’s social graph. And then there was the iPhone flashlight app from Noah Corp., which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

in what people think, and you need to find the right people to talk to you,” says Elkins, a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

believe it is not only of profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

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