Startup Labor Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

15 Apr 2020
News

Money Matters

For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market... View Details

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

market conditions—accepting more immigrants when labor markets are tighter and in sectors where labor demand is higher, and protecting US workers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

April 1998
Teaching Note

Materials Technology Corporation TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-694-075). View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Technology; Research; Markets; Marketing Strategy; Product Development

Citation

Purchase

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

13 May 2016
News

Hate surge pricing? It’s not all bad

01 Jun 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead

side or the support side (equipment suppliers, startup consultants, etc.)? Over history, some of the most successful ventures were launched on the support side. (Some people who made the most money during the gold rush sold picks and... View Details

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GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library

GlobalData Disruptor Market research database covering technology disruption across multiple industries. Read More GlobalData's Disruptor database covers technology focused innovations, trends, consumer insights and venture capital... View Details

19 Apr 2016
News

LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility

Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnik; Scientific Research and Development Services

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

Summing Up Is "Collateral Damage" from Economic Bubbles Inevitable, Necessary, and Useful? According to the old saw, markets are made by differences of opinion. If that's the case, there is a real View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

25 Nov 2013
News

Jumia Pioneers Online Retailing in Africa

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2007
News

A Big Deal

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest Indian takeover of a foreign... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field. “Most of the disagreements were on projects that the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Jan 2015
News

The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations

Keywords: innovation; developing nations; government policy; economic growth; prosperity; entrepreneurship; Health, Social Assistance; Finance

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

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

automation in the Postal Service, but also this true attention to detail. It’s a little bit ironic, but we are doing much more marketing right now through direct mail, which is a very effective recruitment tool for engaging small... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Dec 2021
News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

created a market out of thin air. “We have customers who have come to us and said, ‘I never previously considered a diamond because of the impact,’” says Aether’s cofounder and chief marketing officer Robert... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

2009
Working Paper

Clusters of Entrepreneurship

By: Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Employment; Market Entry and Exit