By Steve Denning “Business leaders generally present themselves as the creators of jobs, the real makers of the economy, claiming to add value to their organization, to the economy and to society. But in the US over the last few…
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Hal Salzman, Ph.D.
Hal Salzman is a Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. His research focuses on labor markets, workplace restructuring,...
From the Editor: A Call for Courage
by Adi Ignatius, Editor in Chief Harvard Business Review It’s been five years since the official end of the Great Recession, yet the U.S. economy continues to lag. True, corporate profits are healthy, and the stock market has soared—but most…
Coming to a pension fund near you: ‘Smoothing’
By Denny Gulino “With Congress allowing firms to delay pension contributions, and many firms saying they will use the windfall to buy back their own stock, a study published Wednesday may focus new attention on the practice. The study, conducted…
Patient capital is a virtue
In his blog post as part of FT Alphaville’s Mission Finance series, William Lazonick argues that stock buybacks and dividends are the mechanism by which financial interests, including top executives, reap gains that should be going to taxpayers and workers. Whenever…
John Zysman
Professor Zysman has written extensively on industrial policy and corporate strategy in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. His 1987 publication, Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of Post-Industrial Economy (with Stephen Cohen), was identified by Business Week as one of the year’s...
Yu Zhou
Yu ZHOU (周宇) is a professor of Geography and chair in the Department of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie New York. She is also Zijiang professor, in Institute of China Innovation (ICI) at East China Normal University. She...
Yue Zhang
Yue Zhang is a research associate with Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP), Florida International University. She has an M.A. in Regional Economic and Social Development from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her Master’s thesis explored the innovation...
Peter J. Warrian
Peter J. Warrian is Senior Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He is Canada’s leading academic expert on the steel industry. His current research is on knowledge networks, supply chains and engineering labour markets....
Yifei Sun
Dr. Yifei Sun (lead PI) is a leading scholar on China’s technology and innovation in the west and has published nearly 30 articles on technology, innovation and urban and regional development in China with one co-edited book (Sun, et al,...
