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- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 May 2012
- News
Best in Show
Parrish: To counter a down economy, laughter was the best medicine. Long an occasion for high jinks and good laughs, the HBS Show was born in dark times. Oil shocks, inflation, and high unemployment were the order of the day when Joe... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
of the population is prospering, but we need a model that benefits Mexico's 95 million people. How does Mexico's stability affect emigration to the United States? Economic instability and unemployment drive Mexicans to the States - to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
The other half of the story is risk. That has nothing to do with the amount of capital I can raise. It has to do with the outside options I have in the very likely event that my firm fails. Am I going to be able to find a job? Do I have View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
head back to a former position. They’ve also launched UIHelp.org, to help people navigate unemployment insurance through the pandemic. Since April, the site has helped more than 140,000 workers find benefits and jobs. Today, Syrg has 25... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside the Washington Beltway, among... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
established NIB). “We exist to create good, enabling work environments of choice for blind people,” he explains. “They have an extraordinarily high unemployment rate, ranging from 65 percent to 75 percent. There’s a lot of discrimination... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
crumbling infrastructure, and high unemployment these days — is the $842 million National Gateway rail-transport improvement project. CSX is putting up half of the price tag, while six states and the District of Columbia are kicking in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
and has been operational now for just over a year. The Israeli side is contributing expertise, access to export markets, and design capabilities; the Jordanian side provides production management and manufacturing prowess. The venture created more than 850 new jobs in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Stock market is better. The unemployment rate is down. The borders are more secure. ISIS looks more vulnerable. We have a phenomenal Supreme Court Justice. I mean, I can go on and on and on. And Congress, including the Republicans are in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13 percent; the standard prediction... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
U.S. dollar, Juan Peirano of Velox Group explains, "The system is very rigid. The price we pay is higher unemployment and a slower rate of economic growth, but I think we will start to move again by the end of 2000." HBS professor Pankaj... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
where we try to ease the pain of the death of at least one, possibly two, of these companies. That’s wise because it would be a tremendous shock to confidence if unemployment was to suddenly leap up by a million or more. But the long-term... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
decade, according to the World Bank, an increase of more than 50 percent. The national unemployment rate has hovered under 5 percent, touching record lows. Income inequality—though still a major issue for the country—is dropping: Between... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Add the renewed growth of the US auto industry, which set all-time sales records in 2015 and helped Detroit’s unemployment rate drop to its lowest in 15 years; add the phenomenon that is Dan Gilbert, the billionaire businessman who made... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
when the economy comes back? I think people’s mindsets have been changed by this recession. How long it will last, I don’t know. People who grew up during the Great Depression were frugal throughout their lives. We don’t know how that equates with 15 percent effective... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
unemployment that peaked at 28 percent, while more than 44 percent of the population slipped below the poverty line. And violent protests.So many years of protest, much of it fueled by anti-austerity anger and the inherent tensions from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
struggling with hunger due to the pandemic. The unprecedented unemployment brought on by the pandemic has forced many people to turn to the emergency food system for support. “Based on our partner agency reporting, over 600,000 people per... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
support because a lot of these small communities, they are not going to be able to fund it by themselves. April: Sheryl, you wrote this book in economic boom times. Unemployment rates were at 50-year lows and still many people were being... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
community transformation, currently works in six African countries. We challenge our youth to channel their rage into starting positive change projects. One participant in our Youth Leadership Program addressed the high rates of View Details