labor - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2017
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Call to Create Jobs, or Else, Tests Trump’s Sway

03 Oct 2016
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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

06 Apr 2015
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Spire's Peter Platzer: the boss who never fires anyone

01 Sep 2016
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The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance. To address that shortfall, sectionmates and media veterans... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2006
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Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China

While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private sector. To get an up-close... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service RelayRides and executive director of... View Details

15 Oct 2014
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The Dark Side of Efficient Markets

Keywords: financial markets; efficiency; futures

01 Mar 2013
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Sweet Deal

Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry Wilson (MBA 1999), who had... View Details

Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Sep 2015
Cold Call Podcast

Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives through Leadership

18 Mar 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun

May 2013
Case

Education in Brazil: Waiting for a Revolution

By: Aldo Musacchio and Alejandra Meraz Velasco

This case describes the situation of the education system in Brazil circa 2012. The case discusses first some of the problems of the Brazilian education system. Then, the case summarizes the findings of a recent study of high performing schools in Brazil and outlines... View Details

Keywords: Quality Of Education; Federalism; Elementary Education; Quality; Human Capital; Education; Education Industry; Brazil; Korean Peninsula

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Educators

11 Sep 2012
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Top 1,000 Companies Wield Power Reserved for Nations

16 Mar 2020
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15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country than anything else.” —Jeff Immelt... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Building Loyalty in Business Markets

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Sep 2010
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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

02 Sep 2014
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Contextual Intelligence

17 Sep 2013
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How to Solve Onboarding’s Awkward Alienation Problem

19 Jul 2020
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Remote Work Revolution

29 Oct 2018
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