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- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job quality which... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
such huge growth. They need a lot of people for their distribution centers. We’ve seen, for example, Walmart raise their minimum wage; we’ve seen Amazon raising their minimum wage. Manufacturing wages have jumped significantly. "Here it... View Details
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is political dynamite and damages the reputation of American... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach... View Details
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
accountable to shareholders, the CEO market is not operating in a way that can be expected to produce efficient outcomes. Without real reform, compensation programs in the world of business and the world of sports aren't even in the same... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in real terms than it has been for... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
really know? Has enough attention been focused on what is an admittedly difficult issue to examine, considering that compensation is only one of many factors in an organization's performance? Given the fact that we're talking about tens of billions of dollars of either... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
Christopher Eaglin Videos Play Video duration: 1:31 The wealth gap: Rethinking equity ownership in modern business. Harvard Business School professor Ethan Rouen explains how the evolution of ownership structures - particularly the growing disparity between equity... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54301 On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks By: Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito Abstract—We consider the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
the same time, housing of all kinds - for buyers and renters - has become more expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The Great Crash Crisis Leadership The... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
the effect is both real and widespread: His 2023 working paper, “No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes,” examined the career paths of 401,785 graduates and found that by many measures the athletes... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it... View Details
- Web
FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
remain low. The meager job creation that has occurred in the last two decades has been overwhelmingly in local industries, not those facing international competition. Labor force participation in America peaked in 1997 and has now fallen to levels not seen in three... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
continued real wage gains. Some would argue that such expectations, especially for those at the top of organizations, are getting out of hand. After all, substantially higher gains in compensation, much of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
farmer working 2,000 fertile acres in Iowa, the outcome will not be good, especially when no safety nets are in place. The real per capita GNP in Mexico is about the same as it was in 1973. The average manufacturing View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor... View Details