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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library, Harvard Business School. Demonstration of downward course of gasoline fumes to open hearth workers, Gary Works, Gary, Indiana. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1953. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. View Details
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connections between American and Chinese merchants. The Ipswich Museum on the North Shore of Massachusetts preserves Ipswich’s social, cultural, and architectural history, including the Federal-style Heard House, built in 1800. The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
attentiveness to General Motors's needs during the last 25 years. Raised in a working-class family in Cleveland, he attended the General Motors Institute prior to HBS and has been with GM since leaving Soldiers Field. He rose through the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
wrote the note, Mental Health and the American Workplace, exploring the extent of the phenomenon, its cost to organizations and employees, and some managerial responses. In some ways, it makes sense that mental health issues get buried.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands of Americans daily, a bumpy vaccine... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in other areas. But we didn’t have a course that would help students understand consumers and the financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card issuers, and brokers, as well as a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
early and regularly. According to a recent study, she said, 88 percent of American women invest primarily in low-yield vehicles such as savings accounts and CDs, none of which outpaces inflation. By not entering the more high-yield world... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Leadership Now Project, which was founded 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy. “This is not asking businesses who are apolitical to suddenly become political,” Lewin says. “This is asking businesses that are already very... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
time. And then that dominoed into missing entire days of school. Then I just dropped out.” From there, Morris held 13 hourly jobs over the course of 10 years—from fast-food worker to waiter to dialysis technician—to help make ends meet for his View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51407 The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—We assess the extent to which unemployment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
as hard as it can be to overcome infrastructure issues, Gordon’s challenges go well beyond lemon shortages and umbrella access: She’s a first-time entrepreneur trying to build a family business in a country with an ever-shifting stance... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
school fresh out of Yale. "I should have listened to my father," he admits with a wry smile. After four years of "just reading and writing" as an insurance company lawyer, Shafir, then newly wed to his wife, Lorna, entered HBS in 1982.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
often bullied pretty badly in the sixth grade,” she says. By eighth grade, things weren’t wonderful—but they weren’t terrible, either. Jones also found a role model in an African American teacher named Ms. Brown. “She was tall, beautiful,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
data tells you one thing, but it’s talking to people and being out in the world that really give you the creative power to see what’s next.” Joint venture: “We built Bluemercury while we were building our family and associate each one of... View Details
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Yubo Cui
and its Chinese stakeholders. In a joint venture with BYD Auto, Daimler was determined to develop and manufacture an affordable electric car. “Our goal was to make it a family car, not a luxury toy,” says Yubo. “We worked ridiculously... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy