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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, October 2024. With Joseph Fuller and Francis Hintermann. The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers , Article, Harvard Business Review, From the Magazine May-June 2023.... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

workforce? What is the explanation for America having a record number of job openings and near record-low workforce participation at the same time? What can be done to create opportunity for the 40 percent of American workers stuck in... View Details

11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce

Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), could create a lifeline for many of these low-wage workers, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Social Finance’s pilot program helps train low-income people for jobs... View Details

04 Jan 2021
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How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

December 16, 2020. Summing up last month’s column My column last month about job training inequality and economic growth sparked many insightful comments about the role of markets as arbiters of fairness and the nature of competition for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

segregation and could be contributing to growing wage inequality among workers in the last generation. Decades ago, companies employed their own janitors, cafeteria workers, and other low-wage support staff. Now, companies often look to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

hiring in order to attract a sufficient number of applicants to meet their needs. They will also need to relax the many superfluous conditions they have applied in evaluating job seekers. Abandoning business models based on the assumption... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4% to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck between View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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