Labor Laws - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Feb 2021
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Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, who has been nominated by President Biden to serve as secretary of labor, has tapped Dan Koh (MBA 2011) to serve as his chief of staff, according to the Boston Globe. Assuming Walsh is approved by the... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

02 Apr 2020
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What Will U.S. Labor Protections Look Like After Coronavirus?

Keywords: Megan Tobias Neely

30 Apr 2013
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CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law

01 Dec 2002
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Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details

10 Jan 2018
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Time to end the debate and face facts: Minimum wage laws hurt the poor

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. When Dick Fisher joined Morgan... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

07 Sep 2010
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Jobs 2.0: Nice Work If You Can Get It

07 Apr 2021
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Zoom meetings, hybrid work models: What to expect when returning to the office

20 May 2021
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Spotify, Pixar, Levi’s, and Nearly 200 Other Companies Join Time’s up to Reimagine the Caregiving Economy

21 Nov 2019
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Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

Keywords: Danielle Kost

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Aug 2010
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A Lonely Crusader

We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year crusade to expose the financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

relationship, whether it’s a provider, a pharmacy, or a patient, involves data, often mobile data on phones.” BlueCross has had to outsource more than 100 of its IT jobs, he adds—not to save money, but because positions can’t be filled from the area’s available View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2017
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The End of the Noncompete Clause

since 2009. Those efforts, however, have been slowed by strong opposition from EMC, one of the state’s largest tech companies. That led Johnson to consider an innovative approach to changing noncompetes. With advice from a team of labor... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins General Foods 1981 Joins McKinsey & Company 1983 Joins E.S. Jacobs & Co. 1993 Becomes... View Details

11 Jan 2021
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The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican

TOBIAS: “When CEOs make 500 times what their employees make, there is an upper class.” So there I am moderating last fall’s 35th Reunion panel, “Two Steves and a Joe,” with classmates Steve Schwarzman (estimated net worth, $15 billion), Joe Perella (estimated net... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

Anheuser-Busch, that means a foray into the direct-to-consumer channel, which is an entirely new world for the company, notes Whitworth. Traditional beer is a tightly regulated industry, for all the right reasons, with a tangle of laws... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Mar 2010
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Jensen Donates Grant

impact on corporate finance, corporate governance, and law and economics, announced in January that he will donate the $200,000 cash grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Business School, and the Simon Graduate School... View Details

Keywords: awards; grants; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

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