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- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977), president of the Washington, DC–based consulting company Bankworld, built I Create, a nonprofit organization focused on combating India’s unemployment crisis through entrepreneurship, in 1999. Since that time,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
entertainment industry and outline the most effective business strategies and biggest entrepreneurial opportunities in these sectors. The Future of Work in the Era of AI Professor Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info What... View Details
Henry S. Dennison
In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51407 The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—We assess the extent to which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
have the experience, or maybe one of their friends does, of “Hey, I rented my car to a stranger, and it worked out well.” As more people have those experiences and they talk about it with their friends, it’s going to help them trust in these systems. What can we do to... View Details
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
example, are stark scenes of unemployment lines, labor strikes, or tenant farmers. Economic and social instability, however, increasingly became the impetus for business schools such as Harvard to consider... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
involving some 300,000 individuals in Europe and the United States over the last 25 years. Participants were asked to describe their state of mind by selecting one of three answers: “very happy,” “fairly happy,” and “not too happy.” The authors found that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
now—at the dawn of the twenty-first century—it is hard to conceive of any more important or pervasive governmental function. The federal government now devotes a larger part of its budget to social insurance (such as View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
2015, it actually made theoretical gains from avoiding payment of unemployment benefits and by collecting tax and social security payments from the workers who would otherwise have been unemployed. “To be fair, View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
to return to their countries of origin....” Ben commented that “We have a need for skilled and unskilled labor here (in the U.S.) and we value inclusion and integration... (But) I think our government shouldn’t copy any other country’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
head back to a former position. They’ve also launched UIHelp.org, to help people navigate unemployment insurance through the pandemic. Since April, the site has helped more than 140,000 workers find benefits... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
unemployment situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion people unemployed, according to the United Nations International Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid.... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
County property. “Big picture,” he notes, “this was 2009, and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to protect the forest for future generations, but we also started wondering if there... View Details