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has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and stakeholder communities, increasing the company’s minimum wage to $15 in 2015 and overseeing a historic gift of about $200 million in stock... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder Stavros earned an hourly View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

being improved student outcomes and profits the company could reinvest in students. At a Gestamp automotive manufacturing plant 20 minutes east of downtown Chattanooga, high school students wearing shirts emblazoned with “WBL” (work-based learning) are paid a starting... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

their low wages will effectively prevent Asian workers from being able to purchase many of the manufactured goods they are creating. Since their own internal demand and consumption will be insufficient to generate revenues to stimulate... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

of the ocean plastic problem is our plastic.” To get higher rates of recycling in impoverished communities, Goodwin says plastic has to have economic value. “If you can establish a value in those plastics, people will pick it up. Paying people a living View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

and the brightest our country had to offer, they really weren’t going into the hamlets and towns where the war was being waged and were losing the hearts and minds. Halberstam claimed that the problem lay in what he called hubris, which... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against disenfranchisement of the Cherokee Freedmen, a group that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Mar 2019
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Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency

Zoë Cullen (photo by Russ Campbell) Zoë Cullen (photo by Russ Campbell) Wage transparency is a concept that is most often rallied against by employers, while employees presume it will benefit them by equalizing View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2015
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State of the Unions

A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart

01 Sep 2014
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Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in real terms than it has been for much of the last several... View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work

The pandemic dramatically accelerated the global marketplace’s appetite for remote work, which had already become a $50 billion industry by 2020. But wages for the same remote jobs varied greatly, depending on where the worker lived.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

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