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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
personal: A spouse’s or partner’s job, a child’s schooling, or a parent’s health can prevent a worker from considering a move. Often, though, the stumbling blocks affect larger groups of workers. “There’s a lot of geographic immobility because of regulation, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine physician at Cambridge Health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
reconstruction. We talked at length by phone about his new book, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (see story). For Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the solutions he sought were less elusive (see story). The founder... View Details
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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
fit their needs. They typically look forward to a few years of full-time professional work and to those many part-time, often unpaid occupations which are of great value to the community." (2) Whitehead articulated that his goal for the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
with Kenya’s electoral commission, Pons and his colleagues tracked the efforts of teams of canvassers as they braved the slum’s twisting streets, knocking on doors and trying to convince occupants to register to vote. For each of 15,000... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
faculty FTEs grew to 272 this past year, 6 percent higher than fiscal 2021. Increased enrollment in fiscal 2022 drove a 14 percent increase in space and occupancy expenses, which rose to $73 million from $64 million in the prior year. As... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote work, such as “work from anywhere” and “all-remote work” arrangements on individuals,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
reason is that college graduates who can’t secure college-level employment often settle for non-college jobs. According to U.S. Census American Community Survey data, millions of college graduates with at least a bachelor’s degree work full-time in View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51197 Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff Abstract—We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
to be blind can perform as well as anyone else. Gibbons hopes his own example will inspire other blind people to reach beyond traditionally “blind” occupations — in advocacy, rehabilitation, or service positions — to consider careers in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
William R., and Martin Mandorff Abstract—We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
complain about labor shortages. Immigrants held low-paying occupations then and now. These occupations include construction, household services, and agriculture. This allowed native-born individuals to climb... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
cross-occupational survey (Study 1), we found that idle time occurs frequently across all occupational categories; we estimate that employers in the United States pay roughly $100 billion in wages for time that employees spend idle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
are focusing on retraining (upskilling/reskilling) initiatives aimed at either equipping “at-risk” workers with skills relevant to new digital technologies, or helping them leverage existing skills across different occupations enabled by... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
wants to hire and then applies to the US government to obtain the visa. Young workers account for a large portion of skilled immigrants, with 90 percent of H-1B workers under the age of 40. The visa is used especially for occupations in... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
most students, certainly true for most students today, but not by a wide margin. This most recent report (pdf), we did a very in-depth analysis of many millions of resumes of actual college graduates and looked at the actual occupational... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
construction of the types of corporate alliances that are possible and productive to include collaboration with collectives that identify with political or occupational norms and values. View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
occupants with a temporary shared in-group that facilitates interaction. We develop and test these ideas in a multi-method field study of a hospital emergency department that introduced minimal team structures that we refer to as team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
more than 20 years, the devastation in meatpacking is just one example of how lax regulation can make a grave situation deadly. The lack of safety guidance from the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) nearly a year... View Details