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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

On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. The results are spectacular. Rucci , Steven P.

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