Labor Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

assure that state and local governments can appropriately respond to the digital activities that impact physical realities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54300 August 2017 Journal of Law & Economics... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

reaching more than 120,000 students annually and are undertaking an expansion of economic empowerment programs into northeastern Nigeria, which has been ravaged by Boko Haram. The belief in the north is that girls shouldn’t go to school... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2011
News

Greek Drama

of recent debates, trading unprecedented personal jabs and polarizing Greece’s already high-octane political climate even further.” Samaras supports budgetary and economic reforms to improve Greece’s debt situation, but with the country... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

06 Jun 2017
News

Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

a lot of overbuilding. Historically, several years into an economic expansion there is overbuilding. Now the market is more organized. This is unlike any cycle I have seen in my 33-year career. LAT: Are you saying the real estate industry... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

2018
Book

The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society

By: William R. Kerr

The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on... View Details

Keywords: Immigration; Policy; Labor; Economy; Talent and Talent Management; United States

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05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to economic independence.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

January 2004
Teaching Note

Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-703-034). View Details

Keywords: Rights; Labor; Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Development Economics; United States; Cambodia

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14 Jan 2014
News

Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because Schultz, like a latter-day Johnny... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
News

Career Services Shifts into High Gear

Many members of the Class of 2008 were just settling into new jobs as reverberations from the financial crisis were felt around the world. While employment figures for the class remain strong, MBA Career Services has continued its support services for the class in... View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

equity or direct investment in the company's home country and labor market interactions evidenced by business travel from the home country to the U.S follow U.S.-style disclosure practices. There is mixed evidence that a company's exports... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to end “too big to fail.”... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

01 Mar 2007
News

Porter Ranks Competitiveness

moved up four places to No. 27. The index is part of the research contributing to The Global Competitiveness Report 2006–2007, released last September by the World Economic Forum. For more information, visit www.weforum.org/gcr. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

organizations with expertise in economic cluster development. The nonprofit NGO has ties to 9,000 practitioners in development agencies, government departments, cluster organizations, academic institutions, companies, and multilateral... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

Paulson (MBA ’70) announced a plan to inject $250 billion into the nation’s banks, a painfully ironic twist for a free-market Republican administration, signaling a turning point in postwar American economic history. Against this backdrop... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

firms to 400 to 1 just prior to the current economic meltdown, because pay for performance most often applies only to a small cadre of managers in many organizations. Further, pay for performance, when structured poorly, is believed to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details