Work & Economy
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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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Larger lesson about tariffs in a move that helped Trump but not the country
Researcher details findings on policy that failed to boost U.S. employment even as it scored political points
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Fed delivers good news overall on economy
Economist Jeffrey Frankel says the central bank held off on easing interest rates, but signs point to soft landing
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Studying ‘why women are interesting, and men are boring’
Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin recounts pioneering career spent tracing major part of U.S. workforce, economy hidden in plain sight
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When will hot housing market finally start to cool?
A real estate investment expert at Harvard Business School explains what’s happening and why.
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Summers says pandemic only partly to blame for record inflation
Inflation’s re-emergence leaves the guardians of the U.S. economy with a tricky balance to strike, cooling the economy with interest rate hikes while avoiding recession, Harvard’s Lawrence Summers said.
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Helping trapped low-wage workers, employers struggling to fill spots
New HBS report finds high-turnover industries such as retail and food service can fix hiring challenges by helping their workers add skills and advance.
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Will fraud jury believe Elizabeth Holmes?
As the four-month fraud trial of Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes wraps up, Harvard Business School Professor Eugene Soltes, who studies corporate executives and white-collar crime, discusses the case.
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Will Omicron damage the economy?
Harvard economist and Nobel laureate Eric Maskin sees possible challenges and reasons for optimism.
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What should Biden do about inflation? Mostly sit tight
Harvard economist says economy is on right track, and there are few things he can try, but higher prices will eventually resolve themselves.
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Take those old records off the shelf
After dominating the music industry, albums fell out of favor as CDs appeared. But vinyl has made a comeback and is having its best year in decades.
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A warning for academia in study of Great Recession-era hiring
Diversity efforts suffer in times of crisis, sociologists find, noting possible parallels amid pandemic.
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What happens to workers when factory shuts down?
Book follows a white female furnace operator, a black efficiency supervisor, and a white machine operator after a plant shutdown.
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‘I quit’ is all the rage. Blip or sea change?
Lawrence Katz answers questions about the historic wave of workers quitting their jobs during the pandemic.
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Where’s all your stuff? It’s complicated.
HBS’ Willy Shih on the shipping logjam and trucking shortage that could spell trouble for holiday retails and how the ubiquitous dollar stores, which rely on imports from Asia and low wages, are hoping to defy dark trends.
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Regulators put cryptocurrency in crosshairs
HBS economist Scott Duke Kominers explains the explosive growth of cryptocurrency and why U.S. regulators now appear poised to swoop in.
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Should we be worried about Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google?
Economist Nancy Rose, a 2021-2022 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow, wants to refine and empower antitrust enforcement.
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Answer to U.S. labor shortage? ‘Hidden’ workforce
Businesses could address labor shortages by tapping into 27 million workers who are “hidden” from corporate hiring processes.
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Visionary, criminal, or both?
Eugene Soltes, a Harvard Business School expert on white-collar criminals, evaluates the case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
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Tying COVID information to worker — and employer — well-being
With COVID-19 cases going back up just as workplaces and schools prepare to reopen, a Harvard Chan School talk digs into the challenges of maintaining worker well-being on the job.
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Why all the abuse of servers, flight staffs, sales clerks as COVID rules ease?
Ryan W. Buell discusses what’s behind the sudden spike in customer rage at service workers and what firms can do to support their employees.
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A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?
Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.
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Taking the crypto out of digital currency
Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Primavera De Filippi discusses the current state of cryptocurrency.
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Is inflation a problem now? Maybe, but more likely not
Alberto F. Cavallo talks about what’s driving prices up, how far they may still go, and what COVID has revealed about the U.S. economy.
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Isaiah Andrews wins Clark Medal
Harvard economist Isaiah Andrews has won the John Bates Clark Medal, recognized for developing statistical tools and models that help scholars to overcome research obstacles that can lead to inaccuracies.
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Local small business roundtable sees reasons for hope
At a Harvard-hosted panel, local small business owners and political leaders talked about lessons learned from the pandemic, and how to apply them to the days ahead.
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Innovation, persisting
The New Venture Competition features entrepreneurs adapting to challenging times.
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Is ‘business as usual’ gone for good?
A recent survey from Harvard Business School Online shows that working online did work. In fact, many professionals even experienced advancement and growth — both on the job and at home — this year.
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Fast-growing life sciences manufacturing startup settles into Allston
Harvard’s life sciences innovation community on its Allston campus gained another member last month in the fast-growing manufacturing startup National Resilience Inc.
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Harvard Chan School launches public health program for business leaders
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health launches public health program for business leaders.
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Key to doing your best at work? Be yourself (no, really)
Being true to yourself at work, not trying to fit in, is key to personal success and an essential “first step” for corporate diversity, HBS professors say.
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Steps to zero
To keep its promise to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its portfolio by 2050, the Harvard Corporation directed Harvard Management Company to give an early assessment of where its efforts and investments stand now.
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How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace
As organizations prepare for a return to their old workplaces, Harvard Business School faculty say the pandemic has permanently changed the way we work.
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An entrepreneurial approach to ‘possibility government’
Business School professor Mitchell Weiss looks at ways to encourage creativity, innovation.