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  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

dancing. One hundred and fifty nine middle-class children from diverse backgrounds in a northeastern USA metropolitan area completed the study in 2011. The development of ToM is associated with decreases in self-esteem, which in turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

operation with a compelling reputation. Several issues were critical in the Lauders' thinking. First, they wanted to reach large numbers of middle-class and wealthy consumers, women with sufficient means to buy premium-priced products... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

mattering for current tax policy is the "Buffett Rule" debate. The Buffett Rule would ensure that people with substantial incomes from investments paid average tax rates at least as high as middle-class workers. Both sides of this debate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

middle-class Indians could already afford to buy. The opulence also justified the high prices and created a natural market because these were luxurious garments that could be worn at festive occasions such as weddings, when people spent... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

of the population, 130 million people, have reached middle-class status, spawning a growing consumer-driven economy. Auto sales, for example, grew by 38 percent, to 964,700 units, during the first five months of this year compared with... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Minding The Gap

from college than middle-class and affluent kids. PELP demonstrates the immediate impact of a class gift. Funded by the 40th Reunion gift from the HBS Class of 1963, PELP was launched in 2003 to see if HBS could help narrow the urban... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

business leaders could, through US-led innovation, bolster American manufacturing and create thousands of middle-class jobs. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor and the founding chair of the Harvard Advanced... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

goods, let alone political power, and as they are acquiring a share in this economy, they're buying cars and houses, and credit is fueling a lot of the current boom. Many of these participants in the economy just haven't had access to very basic things that not only... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • News

The Dragon’s Tale

new century.” What strikes you most about China’s economic development over the last few decades? If you had told me in 1979 that 350 million Chinese would be able to lift themselves out of poverty into something that resembles a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

distributional side they [the plan’s authors] seem to be sending signals that they don't want this to be criticized as just a tax cut that privileges people at the top. But they have some work to do. I think it's not easy to sell this as a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Innovation, Inc.

most middle-class Indians could already afford to buy. The opulence also justified the high prices and created a natural market because these were luxurious garments that could be worn at festive occasions such as weddings, when people... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

customers by appealing to digital savvy, middle-class customers that QNB Finansbank was lacking for a long time. By the end of 2016, it accounted for 16% of QNB Finansbank's deposits. With the support of the top management, Atan was able... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

turn has contributed to rising health care costs. According to a study published by the RAND Corporation, health care spending from 1999 to 2009 wiped out the economic gains of the typical American middle-class family. “If we solve our... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
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