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- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in 1957, American steelmakers argued they could not increase View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
Slovakia highlights the fact that the beliefs and views of a country on what is fair [do] matter for the long-term sustainability of reforms," says Alfaro. Alfaro, Dessain, and Jensen joined forces for an e-mail interview with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
“occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-070 When the Name Is the Game Authors:Marco Bertini, John Gourville, and Elie Ofek Publication:Business Strategy Review 22, no. 3 (2011) Abstract In Romeo and Juliet, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
December 16, 2020. Summing up last month’s column My column last month about job training inequality and economic growth sparked many insightful comments about the role of markets as arbiters of fairness and the nature of competition for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
Media Lab) with Hidalgo and Raskar to develop a computer vision method for quantifying perceived safety of street scenes. The next breakthrough came when Google released a “time machine” feature, allowing users to access historical images... View Details
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
personality that differs across cultures and shifts over time; the traits, behaviors, and perceived limitations ascribed to intersex and (fe)male beings. Hypersurveillance Data and footage compiled, at times by coercion or under duress,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
That’s not helpful to companies, consumers, or economies. Related Reading: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership? The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
such as workers facing decreased wages or losing their jobs. RDT: The elite, in general, have overclaimed the advantages of economic globalization. For example, in trade, globalization is potentially helpful for everyone, but for that to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
established Heritage Link Brands and, almost before they knew it, were in the wine-distribution business. "Founding the company wasn't about wine; it was about hoping that we could transform the way the world perceived Africa and the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Chinese Business, "The Chinese perceive contracts as too rigid to take new circumstances into account. Hence, there is no stigma to changing the terms of an agreement after it has been signed." That approach often frustrates... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat to the Windows franchise posed by Sony expanding the original PlayStation into a broad entertainment platform with the PlayStation 2. Seamus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
less likely to be aligned with company goals. However, the plan was associated with lower sales and gross profits and higher incidence of bad audits, absenteeism, and turnover in some situations where employees could have perceived the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Contrary to the view that non-core users and downward brand extensions pose a threat to the brand, this work investigates the conditions under which these non-core users enhance rather than dilute the brand image. A distinction between two types of non-core users based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne