Employment Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

paper, The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US, was co-authored by Marco E. Tabellini, Harvard Business School; Marius Faber, Basel University; and Andres Sarto, Princeton University. It turns out, say the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

05 May 2015
Blog Post

See What's New on our Site

employment by industry, function, and location. A world map provides an extensive view of data by location Entrepreneurship: Discover how many students joined start-ups or founded their own ventures 3) Perspectives - A quick look into the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Aug 2001
News

T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

summer employment to take a road trip across America. Captivated by the country, he decided to stay on after graduation; in 1961, he became a U.S. citizen. Dunphy was recruited by Westinghouse Electric and worked in various marketing and... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

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Merit-Based Admissions, Need-Based Aid | MBA

investment, HBS students meet the remaining cost of their MBA using personal savings, a student loan, and/or outside funding. Employer sponsorship and loans are considered outside scholarships for financial aid purposes. Students who... View Details

29 Mar 2019
Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE

WAVE, profiling our work within the alumni community and making relevant connections. How is the organization in which you’re involved pursuing social change? WAVE is currently building a movement of employers committed to hiring for... View Details

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions,... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform By: Barrot, Jean-Noel, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business contractors of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

professionals who any employer would want to hire.” Organized around a “blended” learning model, the Collective Academy will bring students together in a common workspace each morning for online teaching sessions before breaking into... View Details

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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog

cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug pricing, racial references, corporate political action, social media, sea... View Details

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

more than twenty-five years ago to the impact and growth of his groundbreaking work in the current academic and financial communities. The Black-Scholes option pricing model established the everyday use of mathematical models as essential... View Details

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

the horizon with regards to data, design, and diversity. Our understanding of data impacts how we curate and interpret it. The physical and virtual spaces we design set the tone for the ways we’re able to live and build. It stands to... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Power of Cultural Understanding

Jafar says that it is important to understand and tackle the root causes of the problems. He also believes in empowering the private sector and building an eco-system that supports economic growth, improved education, and more employment... View Details

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

a resulting lack of diversity can also impact a company’s bottom line. A study of venture capital firms found that “the more similar the investment partners, the lower their investments’ performance.” A study by The National Bureau of... View Details

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the pandemic’s View Details

Keywords: All Industries

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change

interesting and innovative data solutions that impact CPD’s approach to employer relations and marketing initiatives. When I first stepped into my position in March 2015, I got the opportunity to launch... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing; Technology

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

realize the different ways in which data can be easily manipulated.” Brandeis Marshall Read the Transcript We know our socialization and education impact how we curate and interpret information, so any cognitive resistance that some may... View Details

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is beginning to transform the workplace... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

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Thomas Grenier

and think about why I wanted to return to my previous employer after finishing my MBA. Having completed a dozen consulting projects before entering HBS, I wanted to reflect on what I was doing and how it was helping me improve as a... View Details

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