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- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 10 Nov 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Prospects for Shared Prosperity: Findings from the 2015 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
Americas leading companies are thriving, but the prosperity they are producing is not being shared broadly among U.S. citizens. Professor Jan Rivkin will present the results of HBSs effort to gauge alumni opinions. View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
passed a bill to exempt approximately 23 million middle-class taxpayers from the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax for 2007. Facing a presidential veto threat, lawmakers lopped off the provision designed to make up for the $50 billion in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Akash Gupta
mental health issues that went undiagnosed. Having watched my mom transition from a comfortable middle-class lifestyle to a life on the streets, I will be a business leader who openly values mental health in the workplace. I will be a... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) ORIGINAL COLUMN: There is increasing talk about stimulating $1 trillion in spending on the aging... View Details
- Nov 2015
- Audio
Prospects for Shared Prosperity: Findings from the 2015 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
prosperity in America? Do they see the lack of shared prosperity as a problem, either for society or for their companies? Are they satisfied with an economy that is growing strongly in aggregate, or do they care more about outcomes such as income equality, View Details
- Portrait Project
Mike Cohen
States in hopes of offering my sister and me an even better life and even more opportunity. In the notion of legacies, each generation tries to provide a better life for the next. But how do you follow such acts, when your starting point is growing up in a View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
categories, including innovation in the technology and biotech sectors, business models, and marketing strategies needed to reach India’s 600 million middle-class consumers. More than a dozen faculty members have already committed to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Judy D'Agostino
political persecution and chased freedom, liberty, life. My parents exemplified the archetypal immigrant dream: middle-class Americana.But I was often reminded that I wasn’t really American, despite my birthright. My ‘code-switch’ was a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
distinguish himself, he’ll be all but invisible. “In the Valley, especially if you're Asian or Indian or a minority, you're middle-class up until you're a zillionaire. It’s like there are two classes: famous Asian—being Asian or Indian or... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
including working- and middle-class Americans, are struggling, as are many small businesses. The single biggest thorn in the economy’s side: our dysfunctional political system. While many political leaders individually agree with the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
impact in the United States. Real middle-class wage growth requires collective bargaining. “In an era where I think an awful lot of people see wage stagnation as a major problem in the American economy,” he says, the negotiations continue... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
look at the statistics, real wage growth among working-class Americans has been relatively stagnant,” said Kaplan. Meanwhile, “the cost of everything a middle-class family pays for — food, energy, education, and health care — has gone... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
are commonly called thrifts: savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions. Savings institutions were really the first financial intermediaries established specifically to serve the personal saving and borrowing needs of View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
faces a herculean task, his supporters remain optimistic, buoyed by his record of achievement and his legendary ability to charm and persuade. Born in 1933 to a modest middle-class family in Sydney, Australia, where he attended university... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
30-year low, stagnating middle-class wages, and a political system seemingly incapable of agreement. "So what happened—and what are we going to do about it?" asked Porter. These questions were the impetus behind HBS's US Competitiveness... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
Usurer's Grip . Directed by Bannister Merwin. [s.l.]: Edison Company, in association with the Russell Sage Foundation, 1912. The makers of The Usurer’s Grip are careful to mark their protagonists as middle-class and respectable. The... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
batteries can be quickly inserted. He further notes that emissions created by charging an electric car’s batteries are less than the emissions produced by powering an internal combustion engine to cover the same amount of miles. With tens of millions of newly View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children... View Details
- Profile
Mina Kazanlieva
middle-class investors, like my parents, understand and participate in sophisticated investment options currently available only to institutions and high net-worth individuals." View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Affluent in China and India by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, and David Michael (Harvard Business Review Press) Silverstein and his BCG colleagues in China and India provide the first comprehensive profile of the emerging View Details