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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
mid-1990s, Larry Fondation, a community organizer in South Central Los Angeles and Tufano's Harvard College roommate, alerted Tufano to the plight of low-income wage earners who traditionally have been left out of the loop when it comes... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $66 billion CSD industry in the United States, where the average American consumes 52 gallons of CSD per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle," from 1975 to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
people seem untrustworthy, according to Assistant Professor Leslie John, Professor Mike Norton, and doctoral student Kate Barasz. Unexpected raises can be more effective than higher initial wages in increasing worker productivity, Duncan... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Kennedy School knowledge," Keen says of the legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
specialized in failing companies," said the former management consultant in a 1985 HBS interview. "No matter what a firm's problem was, I always said it was my specialty to take care of it." MCI, an upstart telecommunications firm that View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
NatureSweet’s year-round greenhouse production model, were employed full time—were empowered with training and productivity incentives, allowing them to earn well above the minimum wage and advance their careers within the company.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
while the Explorers Club expedition formed, so had its geopolitics. At home, any hope that the American economy would rebound after Black Tuesday had disappeared as wages declined and unemployment grew, plunging the nation into what would... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly wages for its workforce; investing in learning and development programs for... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
utilization. Even in occupations highly exposed to immigrants’ competition, there were no employment or wage losses among natives, suggesting that political discontent was unlikely to have economic roots. Consistent with this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
nuanced. If anything, we lived through a very exceptional period where wages rose very quickly. As a consequence, we’re living through, as de Tocqueville called it, a revolution of rising expectations. Expectations have gotten out of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
cofounder and CEO of fitness organization Peloton, committed to investing $100 million over the next four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often demonstrating for higher wages or better working conditions. Wen, however, was really focused on his new development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings; they also explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
have been economically impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Using two of the organization's locations to serve as pop-up takeout operations, the Clubs are serving more than 2,000 free meals a night. Those receiving the food—at least half of whom are undocumented... View Details