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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
United States in a uniquely powerful position. While Europe and Asia had experienced extensive destruction and loss of life, no battles had been fought on the soil of the United States. The U.S. dollar became the world's major reserve currency. U.S. View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Management Science The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth By: Khan, Urooj, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen Abstract—We investigate the relation between the growth in View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
managing— is essential to economic growth. The innovative capacity of a nation or region is heavily rooted in its microeconomic environment, in areas such as the intensity of scientists and engineers in the workforce, the degree of...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and peddling networks. But no View Details
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by Laura Linard
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
Highway: Technology and Mobility Trends and Opportunities Technological innovation is considered a competitive strength for America, but the nation does not score as high in deploying its technology. U.S. transportation systems are in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
(A) Harvard Business School Case 407-106 Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cite should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994,...
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Martha Lagace
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
approaches in developing nations can impact global health. Recent Publications Effects of a Real-Time Information-Based Intervention on Physician Prescribing Behavior By: Olivia Zhao and Anna D Sinaiko 2024 | Article | Academy of...
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Social Enterprise Social Enterprise April 2013 Article Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which...
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- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
software, Spectra. Nabig's role prior to HBS was a Graduate Developer at Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine, a data platform for analyzing climate change impacts in California. Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Business Management Consultant, View Details
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Events - Business History
social and ecological responses, from corporate social responsibility, which is often little more than window dressing." (Read the full publisher’s description .) Learn more about the book at deeplyresponsible.com . Deeply Responsible...
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Leapfrog to Value Initiative Value-Based Care in Low and Middle Income Nations As the concept of value-based health care is rapidly diffusing world wide, this working paper demonstrates how low and middle income View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
students’ performance on standardized tests.” Published in the February 15 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was authored by Hans Henrik Sievertsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
prompting a takeover, than at engaging in long-term corporate governance or operating issues. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-004.pdf Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 2007
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Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband
This edited volume contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations. It explores the nature, forms and impacts of accountability efforts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies, and private...
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Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Business and Government Relations
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Edward Weisband. Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We...
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Martha Lagace
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History
Economics League of Nations Membership Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Life Expectancy at Birth Trends Over Time Managing Distance Mail Handled Trends Over Time Corporations McDonald's: Countries of...
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- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
organization (e.g., a customer service rep moved to a sales position because internal cross-functional coordination is an important sales task and the rep "knows the people and how to get things done here") A geography or territory or culture (e.g., a member...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
job."1 It was remarkable that the corporate image of a company whose brands were so well known, and whose operations were so widespread, was so indistinct. There were times between the 1960s and 1990 when Unilever appeared amorphous....
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- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
program. He said, “I’m excited by the prospect of sharing ideas with other Goldsmith Fellows and keeping one another accountable to the communities we serve.” Inam Sakinah. Inam has founded and led two nationally recognized non-profits,...
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