Work & Economy
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Why do I like what I like?
Your preferences aren’t as original as you may think, says behavior scientist
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Could high office-vacancy rates damage economy this year?
Kenneth Rogoff sees tough road for some banks as surge of real estate loans come due by 2025, but doesn’t expect wider meltdown
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Americans hate inflation, full stop
No traction for more positive economic developments, research says
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More educated communities tend to be healthier. Why? Culture.
New study finds places with more college graduates tend to develop better lifestyle habits overall
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Lending a hand to a former student — Boston’s mayor
Economist gathers group of Boston area academics to assess costs of creating tax incentives for developers to ease housing crunch
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Where money isn’t cheap, misery follows
Student’s analysis of global attitudes called key contribution to research linking higher cost of borrowing to persistent consumer gloom
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On internet privacy, be very afraid
Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, discusses what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.
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Finance meets humanities — really
Economist Mihir Desai sets aside his usual academic work in a new book in which he uses plain language and stories drawn from literature and art to explain the basic principles of finance and show how deeply they are rooted in the humanities.
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Teaching Uber instead of HBS students
Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei takes leave from classroom to reform the workplace culture at Uber.
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Black leadership, front and center
Harvard Business School course focuses on case studies of black business leaders and their challenges.
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The internal marriage tax of women M.B.A.s
Study says that female M.B.A. students may downplay their career ambitions if they sense doing otherwise will harm their marriage prospects.
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For retail, the revolution is televised
For retail, the revolution is being televised, or at least delivered through online screens.
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A closer look at the post-election stock rally
A new Kennedy School paper looks at early investor reaction to Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Giving women the edge
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day brought powerful business minds to campus.
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Taking the stigma out of poverty
A two-day workshop will examine how poverty leads to social exclusion, and how to reduce it.
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Doing his job
Bill Belichick’s endlessly efficient management style holds lessons for business
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‘I had this extraordinary sense of liberation’
Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School as part of the Experience series.