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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic... View Details
- March 2021
- Article
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito
We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Credit Supply Shocks; Bank Lending Channel; Input-output Linkages; Output; Mechanisms; Trade Credits; Price Effects; Economics; Credit; System Shocks; Employment; Investment; Spain
Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito. "On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks." Journal of Financial Economics 139, no. 3 (March 2021): 895–921.
- January 2018
- Article
Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants
By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants." Journal of Labor Economics 36, no. S1 (January 2018): S133–S181.
- 2008
- Working Paper
A Replication Study of Alan Blinder's 'How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?'
By: Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin
In a 2007 working paper, Alan Blinder assessed the "offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations and estimated that between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs were potentially offshorable. This note reports the results of an exercise in which members of Harvard Business... View Details
Smith, Troy, and Jan W. Rivkin. "A Replication Study of Alan Blinder's 'How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-104, June 2008.
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
We Need a Stress Test for Critical Supply Chains
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
Let's Talk Resilience
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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
concurred that photographs were “especially valuable in the industrial management classes because they portray so clearly such practical industrial problems as the relationship between the laborer and the machine.” Baker Library |... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- News
Why Work-from-Anywhere Is Here to Stay
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
goods rather than agriculture or services. Industrial exports increased as a percentage of total exports from circa 25 percent to 40 percent between 2007 and 2013. It is no coincidence that the largest increase in labor productivity over... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
computer system in Boulder. What’s currently your biggest challenge? At our Long Beach plant, we are still understaffed. Labor is scarce, and there is tremendous competition for the labor that’s available.... View Details
- November 22, 2021
- Article
Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman
In supply-chain management, you get what you plan for. Companies understand that principle when it comes to the goods that they consume and produce, but not when it comes to the people they hire and train. For decades, companies have adopted a short-term, ad hoc... View Details
Fuller, Joseph B., and Matthew Sigelman. "Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 22, 2021).
- August 2009
- Teaching Note
Mina O'Reilly at Logan Airport's TSA (TN)
By: Michel Anteby and Erin McFee
Teaching Note for [409116]. View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver
Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms... View Details
Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15006, May 2009.
- September 1998 (Revised November 1998)
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STRIVE
STRIVE provides employment training and placement to chronically unemployed inner-city minority youth and young adults. This case describes STRIVE's creation as a community-based, single-site nonprofit in Harlem in 1984; the development of its service model (short,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- News
How to Build a Transparent Relationship with Your Suppliers
- 05 Oct 2020
- News