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- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
lack of talent and saying, “Gosh, we need to find more workers.” The unemployment rate is still less for computer programmers than it is for workers who take jobs in fast food restaurants, but both View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
research here . Related Themes: Credit Markets More Info The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Marco Di Maggio & Amir Kermani SEP 2016 How can unemployment insurance serve... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
banks and purchasing toxic assets and equity. In 2009, General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation declared bankruptcy. In March of that year, the Dow Jones plummeted its lowest level of 6,594, a decline of more than 50 percent since 2007, and the View Details
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
With unemployment at near historic lows in the United States, employers report that their single greatest challenge is recruiting and retaining talent. The answer for many companies is to throw money at the problem: Bonuses, incentive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
transition is urgently required if more young people are to launch successful careers that will lead to economic security. “What’s left are the things that are hard to automate, called foundational or human skills.” Even as unemployment... View Details
- Profile
Thomaz Galvao
venture they are incubating in the i-lab. “Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Americas,” Thomaz explains. “There are significant gaps between supply and demand for job occupations: companies can’t find people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
unemployment has been hovering at historic lows; in April, it sank to 3.4 percent, a figure not seen since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. US Chamber of Commerce analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the first part... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
start, the company encouraged additional voluntary departures and offered to help people find new jobs, but got few takers. Many workers were civil servants who expected job security for life. And, at the time, unemployment was also high... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
with prison records have poor job prospects. The unemployment rate for the formerly incarcerated is 27 percent—five times the national average. In the first year after being released from prison, only 55 percent report any earnings. Those... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alex Angelopoulos
I still remember the feeling of emptiness while evaluating my career prospects when I graduated college in 2015. With youth unemployment at 50%, I was entering the workforce in one of the worst job markets Greece had ever seen. I was an... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
employees. Restaurant owners must also provide flexibility in scheduling due to childcare needs and the possibility that summer programs and schools may be closed until September or later. Some employees may be reluctant to return because the combination of state View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
On the flip side, 28 percent laid off or furloughed workers. By the end of April 2020, 15.9 million Americans were out of work, and the unemployment rate was 14.7 percent—a huge swing from the 50-year low of 3.6 percent just months... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
U.S., are full of help-wanted signs? Is it simply the fear of change and uncertainty in a time of both job and labor migration? Can increased retraining of displaced workers really provide an answer to it, especially if one of the causes of View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
writings of the social reformer Jacob Riis, Herbert focused on public housing, child labor laws, minimum wages, unemployment relief, and aid for disabled children, the blind, and mothers with young children. He was also an early advocate... View Details
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History
Over Time Politics & Economics Trade Union Membership Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Unemployment Rates Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Urban Population Density Trends Over Time Politics & Economics US Home Ownership Rates... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
School MBA participants, Chen Lian, Yueran Ma, and Carmen Wang support the behavioral argument that reaching for yield may originate from investor preferences. Related Themes: Credit Markets, Monetary Policy & Money Markets More Info The Importance of View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
cases where a truck will need to be driven by a human or a cash register will need a person to operate it, but will you need as many humans? The answer is “no.” And will the unemployment rate increase at some point? I suspect it will.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
productivity; and then workers need to capture those productivity gains through higher wages. “What we find is that’s not the case,” Rouen says. “We have seen corporate profits rise and unemployment fall to historic lows, but wages have... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
to are probability forecasts, outlining the likelihood of the storm going in one direction versus another. In economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia coordinates probability and point forecasts for predicted growth in gross domestic product, View Details