Internal Labor Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2014
News

GrabTaxi Makes a Go of It

Keywords: mobile taxi app; Thailand; entrepreneurship; women entrepreneurs; Personal Services; Transportation

30 Sep 2010
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Diversifying the Nigerian Economy

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

06 Dec 2021
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Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and View Details

16 Jun 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Michael I. Norton & Rohit Deshpandé

April 2018
Article

Consumers Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

By: Bhavya Mohan, Tobias Schlager, Rohit Deshpandé and Michael I. Norton

We document a novel driver of consumer behavior: pay ratio disclosure. Swiss corporation performance data gathered during a legally mandated pay ratio referendum reveals that salient high pay ratios are associated with decreased firm sales (Pilot Study). An... View Details

Keywords: Pay Ratio; Wage Fairness; Purchase Intention; Customers; Wages; Fairness; Consumer Behavior

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01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending

30-minute credit test is based on research in psychometrics conducted at Harvard’s Center for International Development to help lenders understand both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. The questions on the test seek not... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2004
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Boom Times Ahead

Dent: a track record of being right on the money. Photo courtesy Harry Dent For investors, 2005 is going to be a very good year, and several more will follow, stock market guru Harry Dent (MBA ’79) claims in his new book, The Next Great... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening both our dominant position in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off

trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry.... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech

market differentiation are now even more important than they have been historically. These truths apply across the manufacturing sector, but general industrial equipment and electronics are two areas where these forces are particularly... View Details

Keywords: Jerry Jasinowski (AMP 97, 1985), former president and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers

01 Mar 2025
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Audit: War & Peace

QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Matt Rota

14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots

Through our Entrepreneurs program, we’ve also helped five individuals launch their own small businesses, advised them on their business plans, and helped them land their first clients.” By day, Curiel serves as vice president of institutional business development for... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” read posters and banners all around the Swiss resort, while Indian success stories such as Infosys Technologies were the talk of movers and shakers at swank soirees. The spotlight continued... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Mar 2015
News

Goldman Alumni’s Mozambique Merchant Bank Eyes Gas Boom

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

conditions in its factories. Many countries, for example, sign international labor treaties promising to uphold certain workplace standards. Labor observers, however, have long... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

the production process and lower costs. Yong believes the new facility could also spark manufacturing and innovation for local industry. With only 9 percent of the world’s vehicles being produced on the continent—mostly in South Africa or North Africa, according to the... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep

solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to View Details