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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
percent corporate tax rate to a minimum level acceptable to the European Union.) Congress should use the budget crisis as an opportunity to permanently adopt a modified territorial system for taxing foreign corporate profits. Here is how... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
guessing among them and probably an eventual change in policies and views. Losing Alibaba really stung.) Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province in eastern China. In those early days, it was a small,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
several years our conclusion is that these skills can be developed by anyone open and willing to practice and develop these critical skills. This chapter gives an overview of the course curriculum, complete with the conceptual framework,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
1968 or 1969, and Seattle was on an economic roll. People were apologetic when you called them up because they were late on their bill. And they'd get you the money. The following year was the big Boeing bust. My boss had a serious... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
the partners' actions. To redress this imbalance, we conceptually disentangle cooperation and coordination in the context of inter-organizational collaboration and examine how the two phenomena play out in the partner selection, design, and post-formation stages of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Mikel Gutierrez, and Mark Lancelott (Van Haren Publishing) The journey from strategy to operating success depends on creating an organization that can deliver the chosen strategy. This book shows how to do this. It teaches readers how to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Israel - Global Activities 2021
Israel Israel Addressing Water Scarcity with Precision Irrigation Pictured: Drip irrigation funnels water and nutrients directly to the root zones of plants and the slow flow ensures uniform delivery. With climate change making water scarcity View Details
- Fast Answer
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
States Census Bureau - Demographic characteristics, total population, social, and economic census data useful for determining market size. American Community... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
and geopolitical change and uncertainty; compete on a global scale; and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth by Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
groups that have been part of HBS for years. The teams, which meet only during the first year, are assigned across sections and with an eye to mixing students from a variety of backgrounds. They also encourage in-depth case analysis and... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
diversification efforts for companies in business environments where big may, in fact, be beautiful. "Focus is successful only when the existing economy provides the necessary institutions to support it. A company's strategy should be... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
quite rough sometimes, Whitehead always as smooth as silk. In 2006, Goldman paid more than 50 of its employees $20 million or more. Wasn’t that a tip-off to the firm that the economy was totally unmoored from business fundamentals? John... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
information economy are: (1) How do organizations learn? and (2) How does the "corporate brain" really work? The increased attention to what Thomas Stewart terms "intellectual capital"—the sum of everything everybody... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett