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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609011 China's Evolving Labor Laws Harvard Business School Case 308-092 The (A) case describes key provisions of the new labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
pathogens for which there are currently no vaccines: familiar maladies such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, as well as newer threats, such as SARS, anthrax, and ricin. Today, Gilmartin noted, Merck is one of only five global companies making vaccines. In the 1970s,... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the market research View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
Air Force veteran, founded Universal Systems and Technology. The $150 million firm has 475 employees and makes military-training and weapons-simulation devices. View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
politicians and the voters who elected them—fostering greater employment, say. SEC enforcement actions can be costly for companies, about a third of which go out of business after being targeted. Heese wondered, all things being equal, would the SEC show some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Americans—especially those in the business community—do to increase the ability of firms to compete successfully in the global economy while raising US living standards? This is one of the most important questions facing the nation and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
kinship, which fostered a strong professional relationship. Cera, the Kusisto’s youngest daughter, is a J.D. candidate at University of Michigan Law School. She is looking forward to a summer job at a large legal View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Summing Up The jury is in. Nearly all respondents to this month's column would advise U.S. firms such as Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft to continue to operate in China despite the government's possible use of their content or... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people believe companies won't vanish... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
participate in the equity markets unless they had a lot of money. In 2001, however, a law requiring net assets per share to remain above 50,000 yen was repealed, clearing the way for firms to split to lower... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management Systems Corporation, a consulting View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
this case: http://hbr.org/search/712459-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case ###-### Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 Relations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, and I am dismayed to see the destructive effect these instances of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details