Middle Class - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit's fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

Chinese regulations refusing to allow the firm's stores to use recycled wood, and mandating of animal testing, were challenging to the brand's global natural brand position. The case can be taught both in marketing classes concerned with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

where you sometimes see more camel and donkey carts (now there's green energy!) than autos parked outside. India's 300-million-strong middle class is hungering for consumer goods and decent homes. Despite... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

BOP," Kash Rangan says. "Yes, economies, and with them, the middle classes in emerging countries, have grown. But inequality within countries has also grown. Globalization has not really hurt those... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a good or appropriate outcome for the economy or the taxpayer." Finding A Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

He grew up in a middle class environment, so he had a reasonably good environment. His mother taught him self-respect, his father was a strict disciplinarian who would engage in whippings in those days. But,... View Details

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

explores the emergence of "air taxis," a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that have come on the market recently. "The economics are such that entrepreneurs believe you can have an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

arise only if people at all socioeconomic levels are gaining from that growth. If, for example, the richer classes are gaining while the poorer and middle classes are stagnant... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it The GOP tax scam is not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs. It is a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United States alone. At HBS, the business of business education is thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine applicants to the View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are overleveraged. The View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy Grove, a founding father of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

Joshua Weiss Abstract In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle... View Details