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- 2016
- Working Paper
College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts
By: Gareth Olds
A growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship rates in the United States over... View Details
Olds, Gareth. "College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-145, June 2016.
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
relationship caused her hair to thin. Breedlove found a product that revitalized it, and started selling the tonic, leaning hard on family and friends for labor and customers. “I was convinced it would be a success,” she said of the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislating Stock Prices
- 16 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity and Employment
- 01 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination
By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
Siegel, Jordan I., Naomi Kodama, and Hanna Halaburda. "The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-082, March 2013. (Revised January 2014, June 2014.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and Wage Dispersion
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so lower wage offers tend to... View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and Wage Dispersion." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18638, December 2012.
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
charismatic but controversial cofounder of WeWork, who quit as CEO in 2019 after a bungled initial public offering amid questions about his business practices. “The market values the experience they have and rewards them in terms of high... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
decisions about how to cultivate skills relevant to the labor market when presented with information about job availability, compensation, and the prospects for upward advancement. Employers should encourage... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the potential of the framework to shed new light on traditional strategy questions, the article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
meets its moment Stavros believed that enfranchising workers as owners would lead to higher productivity and morale—and build wealth in blue-collar communities. But, early versions of the idea met mixed results. Stock options or employee stock ownership programs, tied... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work "Freelance by choice" can sound like a rationalization—or putting on a brave face—but has the contract labor market improved for white-collar workers, as more, particularly... View Details
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Loan Marketing Association, 1973–1990 William Fox Fox Film Company, 1915–1929 Clarence Francis General Foods Corporation, 1935–1943 John M. Franklin United States Lines, 1946–1960 Frank M. Freimann Magnavox Company, 1950–1967 Jack Frye... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
reportedly linked to job-related misery. In a landmark ruling in 2019—the first of its kind—a French court found that a number of executives at France Télécom had fostered an environment of institutional harassment in the ruthless means they used to reduce the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- June 2008
- Article
Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?
By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu
Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were... View Details
Keywords: Medical Specialties; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Health Industry
Harner, Christopher D., Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa, and Serena S. Hu. "Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?" Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American Volume 90 (June 2008): 1375–1384.
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2024
- HBS Seminar
Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics
- 08 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- Web
Curriculum - Case Method Project
Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 This case explores how the federal government, under President Theodore Roosevelt, sought to adjudicate between the interests of capital and labor during the Second Industrial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes
reduction from a peak of 9.1 percent in 2022 to 3.1 percent [in early 2024]. This cooling of inflation, while a positive sign, comes amid varied consumer sentiments. While some consumers have expressed increased optimism, bolstered by factors such as an end-of-year... View Details