Labor Force Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
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PalmSource is facing stiff competition from handheld, wireless handheld, and smart phone vendors in 2005. In addition, changes in leadership and corporate structure have altered its relationship with its leading customer--PalmOne. Although Palm renews its license with... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy; Alliances; Software; Market Participation; Wireless Technology; Trends; Working Conditions; Change Management; Information Technology Industry; United States

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15 Oct 2024
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We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

you,” says Zlatev. The alternative is relying on willpower to force your way through a situation, whether it’s finishing a report on deadline rather than scrolling Instagram or getting to the gym instead of lounging on the couch. Since... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

in business and in government to participate together in a comprehensive case development and intensive workshop experience over a six-month period. And breakthroughs happened. So we came out of that whole six-month process with a large... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

they are granted. Some corporations whose option expenses represent a relatively modest charge—often due to low betas resulting from low stock price volatility—have done so already. On another front, organizations that are being forced to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

poverty, (3) the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that male illegal immigrants aged 18 to 64 had a very high 92 percent labor force participation rate in 2004, (4) rates of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Vivian Scalfi

participated in exchange programs that took her to Canada and France. "I’ve always been interested in languages –I’ve learned to speak Spanish, French, and English, in addition to the Portuguese – and I want to use these to be in... View Details

Keywords: CPG

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

School’s centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to consider the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School’s learning model, we provided View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

13 Dec 2011
News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

and actions that boost the ability of companies in the United States to compete in the global economy and raise American living standards. The announcement included the introduction of a new digital forum dedicated to the topic and comes two weeks after the School... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital markets play. READ MORE View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

Working PapersThe Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

An Advocate for Women's Equality

the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave... View Details

Keywords: Richard Nixon; Chuck Colson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

higher skill levels than are currently available. More jobs are being defined as requiring a college degree because, yes, they are getting more complicated, but it’s also because employers have been relying on what we call the “spot market” for View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future

"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred organizations around the world View Details

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

the benefit of others.” Profit is what remains after market forces for factors of production have done their work. My words, not Wittenberg’s. As Wittenberg points out, in an unregulated market for labor or... View Details