Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual around yoga offers View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

06 Mar 2015
News

Goldman Alumni’s Mozambique Merchant Bank Eyes Gas Boom

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

learn more about HBS Clubs and club activities in your area, please visit www.clubhub.hbs.org/. In October, Alvin Roth, a member of the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit and Harvard University's Department of... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 08 Apr 2015
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Closing The Middle-Skills Gap: How Business Leaders Can Help

In this session, Professor Fuller will discuss research on the role of businesses in closing middle-skills gaps. He will explain why the traditional definition of middle skills is inadequate and present a unique view of jobs data. He will argue that by adopting a... View Details

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

in part because the population is aging. A key question for policymakers centers on whether local labor markets can adjust or whether a population drop tied to robots will lead to persistent levels of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

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Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador - Blog: RGE Report

Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? 08 Mar 2025 Professor Claudia Goldin on "Why Women Won" 08 Mar 2025 Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom 08 Mar... View Details

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Jun 2004
News

Hot Tip

and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried paternalistically to guarantee good jobs have, in the past decade, been blasted in the products... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

23 Sep 2014
News

We Can't Talk about Inequality without Talking about Talent

Keywords: human capital; financial capital; talent; wealth inequality

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

auditors to determine what constellation of international, domestic, civil society, and market institutions promotes compliance with the global labor standards embodied in codes. We find that supplier... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Nov 2013
News

Jumia Pioneers Online Retailing in Africa

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

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Professor Claudia Goldin on "Why Women Won" - Blog: RGE Report

scholars, the moment is ripe for us to delve into research that illustrates the state of working women today. Harvard’s own Professor Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her lifetime of work on gender dynamics and women’s outcomes in the View Details

07 Jan 2015
News

The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations

Keywords: innovation; developing nations; government policy; economic growth; prosperity; entrepreneurship; Health, Social Assistance; Finance

03 Oct 2020
News

Finance in the Time of COVID-19

01 Apr 1998
News

Deals For Sale

FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

25 Mar 2008
News

Whistling Past the Graveyard

overvalued stock market looks like a casino of smoke, mirrors, and all-too-frequent bubbles. Then there’s gasoline, food, and heating, basic expenses that are suddenly breathtaking. Oh, and merchants are refusing dollars in India and... View Details