Work & Economy
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How China tariffs could backfire on U.S.
Economists say there could be unintended consequences, including higher prices, supply chain disruptions, and possibly opening door to improving Beijing’s ties to American allies
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How free-market policymakers got it all wrong for decades
Conservative economist says singular focus on deregulation, unfettered trade failed to deliver for American households
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Are rich different from you and me? Would we be better off without them?
Safra Center for Ethics debate weighs extreme wealth, philanthropy, income inequality, and redistribution
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Millions of workers are also juggling caregiving. Employers need to rethink.
Business School report finds rigid hiring policies, work rules, scheduling hurt employees but also productivity, retention, bottom line
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What skeptics get wrong about liberal arts
In podcast episode, an economist, an educator, and a philosopher make the case it’s as essential as ever in today’s job market
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Generative AI embraced faster than internet, PCs
Study finds nearly 40 percent of Americans have used technology for tasks at work and at home
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A business success based on openness
In an appearance at Harvard, businessman Ray Dalio explains the unorthodox principles behind his highly successful investment management firm.
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The stock market goes off-road
Harvard Business School’s Robin Greenwood, who studies price bubbles, discusses the stock market plunge that took place earlier this week.
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The NBA-HBS career connection
When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.
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Try hard, find God, get rich
The prosperity gospel, a strain of Christian belief that that links faith, positive thinking, and material wealth, is finding a foothold in American politics with the rise of President Trump, according to panelists at a Kennedy School forum.
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Golden age for team players
Workers with strong social skills are increasingly valuable to employers, according to a new analysis by Harvard education economist.
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Scholars home in on U.S. inequality
A new Harvard initiative focused on inequality in the U.S. includes a postdoctoral fellowship to begin in the 2018-19 academic year.
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Want to do well? Then do good
Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers told an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal that identifying problems and creating ways to solve them can change society, especially in underserved communities.
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Political failure through a business lens
A new report from Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter and co-author Katherine Gehl looks at the country’s dysfunctional political system through the lens of business competition to find practical, effective ways to improve how politics serves what should be its most important customers: average voters.
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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.