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Commencement 2017 Address | About

REACH, and RESPECT. Your responsibilities as people trained to lead businesses are more important today than ever. You are graduating into a world in which trust and faith in business has declined significantly. In the U.S., unemployment... View Details

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

with many workers crossing from Mexico, every day. Given the relatively low rate of unemployment in the US and the paucity of jobs in Mexico at the time, it seemed certain that the issue of immigration would be pursued by the leaders of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

at a time when there are many social protests calling for more spending on education and health care. However one needs to keep things in perspective. The unemployment rate, for example, is 6 per cent. Compare that to 7.5 per cent in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

struggling with hunger due to the pandemic. The unprecedented unemployment brought on by the pandemic has forced many people to turn to the emergency food system for support. “Based on our partner agency reporting, over 600,000 people per... View Details

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

differently from other forms of public insurance, such as unemployment insurance and deposit insurance? Although there are many possible explanations for this puzzle, one that deserves particular attention relates to the peculiar politics... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

support because a lot of these small communities, they are not going to be able to fund it by themselves. April: Sheryl, you wrote this book in economic boom times. Unemployment rates were at 50-year lows and still many people were being... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

unemployment at 4.6 percent, we have a number that is extremely positive despite the fact that, as the election result made clear, there are also pockets of long-term unemployment in several parts of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

purpose company” with employees in London, New York, Singapore, New Zealand, and Sydney, with a new office opening soon in Toronto. Aside from generating big tax dollars for the UK, BIT has seen successes in areas ranging from reducing View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2000
News

Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are overleveraged. The middle class... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building infrastructure, strengthening View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

community transformation, currently works in six African countries. We challenge our youth to channel their rage into starting positive change projects. One participant in our Youth Leadership Program addressed the high rates of View Details

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out private firms by hiring away employees and the like. For instance, our effects are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

unemployment rate. Not only will this training program serve as a pipeline for industry-trained employees for the businesses located at The Hatchery, but it will also provide a path for a culinary career to young people who lack positive... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

squeezed. In a month’s time we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest unemployment in 80 years. I expect this dislocation to reignite a serious debate about our... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

people were searching for, using that information over time to forecast unemployment and what kind of training programs should be developed. And in the same way that the New York street view data was applied to Boston, policymakers could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

with programs related to strengthening education, the parliamentary system, job creation, and investment. But as the top part of society is going one way, things can still slip in the other direction if problems on the Moroccan street like View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

occupies top “best-of” lists in other categories, such as energy and innovation. U.S. News and World Report’s state rankings placed Minnesota at number two in 2018, citing its low unemployment rate. The Twin Cities, Minneapolis–Saint... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

flow of small business credit fell, interest rates rose, fewer businesses expanded, unemployment rose, and wages fell from 2006 to 2010. While the flow of credit recovered after 2010 as other lenders slowly filled the void, interest rates... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

industrial washer in the spin cycle, putting entire industries (arts and entertainment, tourism, food and hospitality) at risk even as others (real estate, construction, and home services) experienced record demand. In the United States, View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

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