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- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
individuals displaced by natural disasters could surge to 1.2 billion by 2050, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. Beyond the United States and France, the world witnessed the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum in 2016, a... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
hundreds of billions of dollars to train workers to build the electricity infrastructure required to achieve net-zero targets, retrain workers displaced from the fossil fuel sector, and bring climate justice to places where good View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
always seeking new demand for creative projects to keep up with the supply of community members eager to take up challenges. "We're displacing a way of doing business in a big organization for the last 70 years," said DeJulio, who was a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
displaced by the green transition through 2027. The job training issue is personal for Erika. “My job is training the next generation of EV leaders, but I’m having trouble... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
don’t make the technology. But we help package the financing for improvements so the companies and the environment overall can enjoy the benefits. We get paid through the revenues of this process.” There are additional benefits, Janice said. “In a steel plant, for... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
John A., and Leora Kornfeld Abstract—The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was actively supported by the government in many ways while... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that functions report to the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
great promise. "Long-run prosperity is by no means assured. The legacy of the war itself is a challenge," he says. "You are working with a displaced population, grievances remain across ethnicities, and there are high and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
the world. How’s this possible? So I went in and they said, well, yes, you haven’t been back in domestic investment banking that long so we felt this was the right decision. I thought, well they’re wrong. And I went to some of my other friends at the firm and they... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Thinking-Not Feeling-Jobs By: Waytz, Adam, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Technological innovations have produced robots capable of jobs that, until recently, only humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
to honor Keen's graduation from HBS in 1997. While recognizing his achievement, a grandfather figure told Keen to remember his roots and be wary of the outside world's worship of money. "It was a little embarrassing," Keen told me, "because I had been trying to get the... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
With demand growing, Khan eventually left his full-time job as a hedge fund analyst to devote himself full-time to Khan Academy, bootstrapping it for the first nine months before receiving early support from Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976),... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark that became the Voice Project. You were volunteering at an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward American multinational firms would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian and Chinese names in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find limited effects for native SE employment or patenting. We are able to rule out View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace