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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
police violence, noting that the lack of economic opportunity has been “catastrophic” to inner cities that have seen massive disinvestment. “These things are related,” he says, in part because the economy hasn’t worked for the majority of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- News
SBA Administrator Karen Mills stepping down
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
According to Martinez, "There is probably some research done on the inflationary impact of regularizing illegal residents in the U.S." Roberto J. M. Rodriguez asks, "What is the U.S. economic View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Street Journal Rank out of 500,000 Candidates in India's Civil Service Exam: 1 Research Interests: disruptive technologies, investment climate, competitiveness and development Recent Honor: named one of the World Economic Forum's Top 100... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
relationship. With operations primarily online, their major expenses are technology and advertising. Labor costs are miniscule, because the workers who create revenue are independent contractors. In contrast, traditionally structured... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting the United States as an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
natural and human resources, poverty nonetheless prevails — some 350 million Indians live on less than one dollar a day. “The government of India faces the challenge of leveraging huge natural and human resources to ensure rapid economic... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
drivers. It is a model customers are familiar with.” And it’s a model she believes could also transform the coffee industry and other commodity supply chains. Courtesy Margaret Nyamumbo “The economics of coffee are some of the most... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades from 1947 to 1997. Around 2001, both those indicators of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in an economically viable manner,” he says. “Today, though, I can actually build a smaller factory in the United States; have robots take some of the cost out, with high-skilled labor doing other parts of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
to HBS to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a graduate degree and never expected to become a professor. But in a remarkable HBS career that has spanned four decades and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation leading to increased... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
scanrail SUMMING UP: Is Modern Monetary Theory a Fancy Term for Today’s Reality? Modern monetary theory (MMT) is “silly thinking” (Andy), “a totally unproven theory” (Alex), a “free lunch” (John), and “questionable economics for certain”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rohan Kekre
financial system. The next two years were an incredible learning opportunity, as I got to serve financial services clients reevaluating business strategy in an extremely challenging economic environment. The experience made me interested... View Details