Middle Class - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812033-PDF-ENG Chris and Alison Weston (A) Sandra J. Sucher and Celia MooreHarvard Business School Case 612-019 Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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