Labor - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2008
News

Whistling Past the Graveyard

The experts are finally seeing the light: most now agree we are in a recession. Harvard professor Martin Feldstein (http://www.nber.org/feldstein), former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, says it could be the worst since World War II. But this belated... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2005
News

Building Loyalty in Business Markets

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Sep 2010
News

Condo Mania

STERNLICHT: Waiting for the dust to settle. John Vanbeekum A self-described “distressed-real-estate guy,” Barry Sternlicht (MBA ’86) has some vacant condos to move, and that’s a problem he’s glad to have. Consider the unfinished and unoccupied 47-story Paramount Bay... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Real Estate

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

encouraging labor market mobility. “Setting the table in terms of creating an environment that is attractive to entrepreneurship is one of the most important things that government can do,” he says—and differences in incentives and... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

Edward A. Filene

labor policies, Filene established a minimum wage for women, instituted Saturday closings during the summer, recognized winter vacations in addition to normal summer holidays, and created The Filene Employees Credit Union, a national... View Details

Keywords: Retail

21 Jul 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives

Keywords: by Yanhua Z. Bird, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel

October 1982
Case

Dana Corp.: The Richmond Camshaft Plant (B) (Condensed)

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity

Citation

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31 Oct 2015
News

Social networks, ethnicity and entrepreneurship

04 Aug 2014
News

Market Basket Shows the Best and Worst of Family Business

07 May 2014
News

Three ways to reignite U.S. job creation

12 May 2020
News

Coronavirus and the future of the workplace: 8 trends to watch

14 Mar 2020
News

U.S. Economic Outlook Under Coronavirus Hinges on Layoff Decisions

02 May 2018
News

The Problem With a Federal Jobs Guarantee (Hint: It’s Not the Price Tag)

04 May 2017
News

How Researchers Are Using Yelp to Study an Impact of Rising Minimum Wages

17 Jul 2020
News

Impact Investing Won’t Save Capitalism

Keywords: Alan Schwartz and Reuben Finighan

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

For more than twenty years, Terry Stewart's work has placed him at the middle of some of the world's most contentious border disputes - the trade and legal battles that erupt when countries engage in practices such as dumping or restricting access to their internal... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1998
News

Deals For Sale

IF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS commerce over the Internet is the wave of the future - and analysts project such transactions will increase a thousandfold by 2001 - then Scott Randall and his company, FairMarket (www.fairmarket.com), are riding the crest of that wave.... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

02 Nov 2005
Conference Presentation

Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital

By: George P. Baker, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Cristian Voicu

Keywords: Wages; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Human Capital