Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (13,885) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (13,885) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 28 of 13,885 Results →
  • March 2005 (Revised May 2011)
  • Course Overview Note

Conceptual Overview of Real Property

By: Arthur I Segel and Ann Winslow
Real estate represents the largest asset class in the world. Businesses in the United States have over $8.6 trillion of real estate assets on their balance sheets. Excluding housing--worth $16 trillion in the United States--and corporate-owned real estate, there is... View Details
Keywords: Property
Related
  • 19 Nov 2014
  • News

Panel Highlights Philanthropy Models Across Nations

  • Video

Ignacio Lartirigoyen (MBA 2020) Talks Family Business, Bringing Children to HBS, and Agribusiness

  • 17 Nov 2015 - 19 Nov 2015
  • Other Presentation

Cluster Mapping and Cluster-Based Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
This workshop brought together cluster policymakers, experts, and policy-oriented researchers from the United States and the European Union to exchange best practices on cluster mapping, cluster portals, and cluster-based economic development policies and programs.... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Competitiveness; Economic Development; Competition; Development Economics; United States; European Union
Related
  • Article

We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society

By: Shai Davidai, Martin Day, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Oliver Hauser, Jon M. Jachimowicz, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva, L. Taylor Phillips, Barnabas Szaszi and Stephanie Tepper
Income inequality in the United States was at historic levels before the coronavirus hit. Now, as the disease—and the social and economic implications it brings—spread across the country, it is likely to create even deeper fissures between the poor and rich. View Details
Keywords: Socioeconomic Status; Coronavirus; Inequality; Work; Income; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Gender; Money; Policy; Race; Society
Related
  • February 2023 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Amazon and the Future of Organized Labor

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Trevor Fetter and Grace Liu
From their peak in the 1950s, private-sector labor unions in the United States declined rapidly in membership and influence, decade after decade. But growing inequality—especially visible during the COVID-19 pandemic—sparked new interest in labor and organizing.... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Labor Unions
Related
  • September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; National Security; Business and Government Relations; Ship Transportation; Dubai; United States
Related
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • News

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • June 1978 (Revised August 1987)
  • Background Note

Note on the Motorcycle Industry--1975

Discusses several changes in the motorcycle industry: the emergence of Japanese competitors; the growth in demand for light motorcycles; and the emergence of recreational uses; and how these changes have affected older United States and British manufacturers. View Details
Keywords: Change; Motorcycle Industry; Japan; Great Britain; United States
Related

    Hassina Bahadurzada

    Hassina is trained as physician and psychologist in Amsterdam and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University before coming to Harvard to further pursue a scholarly career in healthcare management. At Stanford, Hassina studied social and functional... View Details
    • 15 Apr 2020
    • News

    Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S. Is Easier Said Than Done

    • August 1999
    • Background Note

    Note on Property Types

    By: William J. Poorvu and Daniel J. Rudd
    Commercial real estate in the United States can be divided into five distinct property types: apartment, office, hotel, industrial, and retail. This note presents the important characteristics of each of these five property types and highlights the "value drivers" for... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Property; Commercialization; Value; Real Estate Industry; United States
    Related

      Aiyesha Dey

      Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School as an associate professor of accounting since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faculty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after... View Details

      • 17 Oct 2016
      • News

      Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

      • 02 Aug 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment

      Keywords: by Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
      • 16 Nov 2010
      • News

      Tesco's Foray Into U.S. Market Hits Snag

      • 07 Sep 2016
      • News

      Who Wants to Start a Bank?

      • 30 Jul 2008
      • Op-Ed

      Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

      such investments have already begun to percolate. Are these concerns warranted? If history is any guide, foreign investors in the United States have more to worry about than domestic regulators do. The... View Details
      Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
      • 21 Nov 2019
      • Blog Post

      The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

      How do countries and companies work to achieve their carbon reduction goals? Is a Green New Deal necessary to transform the United States economy? These were just a few of the questions driving discussions... View Details
      Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech