Liberalizing An Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

the economy recover from the financial crisis, and it will continue to be an important driver of national competitiveness in the future. Merger's Success Depends On Leadership Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ernest L.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

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

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the School played a major role in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

trumped an element of national culture. In the end, says John Quelch, “The integration of the global economy is such that no one anywhere is insulated. And one naturally wants to take what seems to be the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. London: Palgrave, forthcoming View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

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Gilbane Dan worked for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, ING Barings Furman Selz, ABN Amro, and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund. Dan received a BBA degree in international relations finance from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

global-poverty problem, which is what IGD has done, is an important step that the public sector would be wise to study. One thing stands in the way: lack of a broad-based understanding in the business community that ending extreme global... View Details

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

Even predictions based on an analysis of trends can have a bad name. Beatrice Haurenson, commenting on trend analysis, said: "What did the analysis of 'Trends' pre-2007 tell us?" Tom Dolembo suggested another reason why... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

platforms, but new industries are also springing up around them; witness the multibillion-dollar ringtone business. To record the impact of software platforms on the economy and look to their future impact, David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

this year, of the millions of cars being churned out in factories all around the world, one of them, unknown and unremarked, will roll off an assembly line and take its place in history. Basking under the hot lights of a showroom, or... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

fifth-generation nuclear capabilities. The threat of nuclear aggression among powerful nations did not disappear with the Cold War; it remains a major challenge for the United States and poses a more serious danger than terrorism. The Chinese have a strong View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Other factors hastened Heard & Co.’s decline, including the misappropriation of funds by the house’s agent Everett & Co. The firm also found it difficult to recover from its extravagant ways. “The prosperity of the past had initiated a lavish scale of expenditure. . .... View Details

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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society

experienced remarkable economic growth in recent decades. Many of its key economies have been transformed, and numerous companies have become global industry leaders. Despite this significant wealth generation, the region still struggles... View Details

05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction, and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

In his words, "As long as shareholder value maximization is the sole focus of Boards in a capitalistic context, objectivity in judgment is at risk: putting shareholders above all stakeholders is not a sustainable proposition, especially in the Knowledge View Details