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  • 2018
  • Book

American Capitalism: New Histories

By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; History; Finance; Trade; Economy; Policy; United States
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    Empire of Cotton

    The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
     
    Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the... View Details
    • 21 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 21, 2010

      PublicationsA History of Irish Economic Thought Authors:Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, and John Turner, eds. Publication:London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

    An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details
    • November 2020
    • Article

    Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

    By: Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
    We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Training; Competency and Skills; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • November 2019
    • Case

    Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
    In May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was having a hard time... View Details
    Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Management; Financial Condition; Problems and Challenges; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    Research - Global

    digital lenders use machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of... 2025 Working Paper How Does Wage Inequality... View Details
    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    introduced, and the hourly wage system was replaced by a system of base pay with productivity incentives for meeting targets. Service advisers were given product-specific sales quotas—sell so many brake jobs, shock absorbers, alignments,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

    large... More Research 2025 Working Paper How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement By: Barbara Biasi, Zoë B. Cullen , Julia H. Gilman and Nina Roussille This paper provides causal evidence on how View Details
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    Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    The number of holes revealed the production rate for each worker. Researchers were unsure if productivity increased in this experiment because of the introduction of rest periods, shorter working hours, wage incentives, the dynamics of a... View Details
    • May 2018
    • Article

    The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work

    By: Andrew Brodsky and Teresa M. Amabile
    Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of employees being too busy, this paper presents evidence of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Performance Consistency; Performance Productivity
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    • 24 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

    Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
    • 08 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

    It would seem to make sense that when companies recognize their workers with awards, they are likely to see a boost in morale and perhaps even inspire them to work harder. It turns out that sometimes rewarding employees for good behavior can actually backfire, leading... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    profits and, by and large, paying a living wage to their editorial employees, the study notes. That stability also enabled the field’s moral calling to mature and develop like it never had before, with a belief in the mission of... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 16 Nov 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

    more drivers. It created a model to understand and identify factors that caused individuals to be interested in signing up to be a Uber driver. Were they part-time workers? Did they own a car? Were they in cities with low wages or in... View Details
    Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
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    The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    welcomed Mayo’s arrival at the Hawthorne Works in 1928. “We have become skeptical of being able to prove anything in connection with the behavior of human beings under various conditions,” he wrote. 4 Other Hawthorne experiments taking place at the time included the... View Details
    • 04 Jan 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

    procedures impedes effective action.” Wars on bureaucracy are waged and often thought to be won in non-governmental organizations. But there's a perception that the war is rarely waged or won in... View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett
    • 18 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Cost of Leaning In

    earnings. As a starting point, the computer would suggest a wage for the worker. Sometimes the computer generated an offer that matched how much money workers contributed to the combined earnings. But more often than not, the computer... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 21 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

    Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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    Business History - Faculty & Research

    Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying View Details