Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
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A Big Deal

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest Indian takeover of a foreign... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Jun 2023
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Spray Canon

value that is then built upon to create a market value—which is a separate type of validation,” says Riley, who credits Deitch’s time as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and his Art in the Streets exhibition with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2014
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No Small Beer

The biggest thing in the beer business these days is the little guy. Research firm Technomics reported that the craft beer and premium import market rose almost 15 percent in 2012, with an "upward trajectory" that continued in 2013. And... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; craft beer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

11 May 2016
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World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock market has almost tripled in size. A... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard

can make or break it all. “Plus, in a world where people want to work from home and other companies offer that option, it’s difficult for us to ignore the market and what people want,” Lerner says. On the other hand, the founders have a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

25 Aug 2015
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Business for the Other Billions

Keywords: impact investing

01 Sep 2005
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Fixer Upper

almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in housing prices as... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

to build capabilities that would be hard to replicate. Let’s build a plan here—not just to grow but to develop some long-term defensibility. Some record profits would be music to investors’ ears. —Jeffrey Glass (MBA 1994) Grow market... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

You cite this decline as a root cause of widespread uneasiness among Americans about their future. What's gone wrong? One major structural change is that traditional mass production for a huge domestic market - the unique situation that... View Details

28 May 2019
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Cure All

How would you advise them? Leemore Dafny: What I’d say is something that holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2012
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Markets’ Moral Limits

affects social attitudes about altruism. And since markets may not be the best allocators of goods “on grounds of either efficiency or fairness,” Sandel called for broad debate on “where markets belong, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

automation in the Postal Service, but also this true attention to detail. It’s a little bit ironic, but we are doing much more marketing right now through direct mail, which is a very effective recruitment tool for engaging small... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives

Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, who cochaired the one-week immersion with Dennis Campbell, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration. “We started with a very basic question: ‘What should we really know about Southeast... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Where the Jobs Are

facilitating commerce and learns that the country is in the midst of a “rail renaissance” that will boost competitiveness in global markets (see article). While individual company successes abound, not all the news is good on the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

think the labor market will have a sorting system in place. There are going to be those of us who think of work as a transaction and nothing more. And there are going to be organizations that are going to... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

07 Oct 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth... View Details