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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. Quinn Mills, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, in an interview.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E. The results are spectacular.

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