Political Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Managing up is not View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

political processes from which they were once excluded. Another asset big corporations enjoy is the power to protect programs once they are put in place, and the strength to thwart the status quo. With this... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

26 Sep 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

high-impact summer roles, I was able to create an experience for myself that was professionally exciting and financially viable during the summer between my first and second year at HBS. Composed of two human centered designers and one PhD View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn’t the case. Entrepreneurship is not a spirit or a gift. It is a... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 2002
News

Karen Tumulty Reports on America

After more than twenty years in journalism, covering everything from the coroner's office to the Oval Office, Karen E. Tumulty (MBA '81), Time magazine's national political correspondent, has seen it all. So how to explain the warm smile,... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

discusses the evidence that has been assembled to date in understanding the impact of high-skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

the 1960s and forward through the early 1990s so he is able examine the process of economic development of these four economies and their relationships with FDI. Huang is especially interested in FDI that went into labor-intensive... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

unconditional bonuses. The results have implications for companies trying to use bonuses to more effectively manage their salespeople. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53260 forthcoming Journal of Political... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

protections has done little to manage the risk in many of these politically unstable environments. Professor Louis T. Wells, coauthor of a new book on making foreign investment safe, discusses the current landscape. Key concepts include:... View Details

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

cards/permanent worker status with those who are on temporary visas, such as H-1Bs. More obviously unfair is the green card application process itself. Applicants from larger countries such as China and India have to wait much longer than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

but with ability of the people handling this system." Alternatives to the use of predictions in the customary planning process were not ignored. Jean-Christophe Khuries suggested one when he asked: "How do you manage a large... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS - MBA

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20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

compared to just two decades ago. This explosive growth, especially in emerging markets, has been fueled both by changes in world politics (e.g., the end of the Cold War, collapse of the Soviet Union, shifting View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS - MBA

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13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

history is chockablock with companies whose potentially risky bets paid off in the long term. "Take DuPont's investment in nylon," she says. "They spent many years stabilizing the process and learning to scale it up. And of course once... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA

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April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Petrobras in Ecuador (A)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details