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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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.