Union - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

choice after a campus visit—the casual classroom environment and enthusiastic, welcoming students from the African American Student Union (AASU) and the Latin American Student Union (LASO) made her certain... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

government will lead to heightened tensions with the United States and allies such as Japan and Taiwan by 2020. What about Europe? The European Union poses a less immediate challenge, but a real one nonetheless. There is an element of the... View Details

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

14 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

cooperation among countries, as we've seen in some of these post-Soviet cases. Q: You've written about how different countries in the former Soviet Union have reacted toward or against Russia. What about Russia and its own orientation and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2023
Supplement

CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

By: Willy C. Shih

Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and the deep-sea segment, which... View Details

Keywords: Container Shipping; Trade Links; Decarbonization; Environmental Strategies; Environmental Impact; Globalization; Trade; Environmental Regulation; Supply Chain; Logistics; Shipping Industry; European Union; Asia; North America

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2022
Chapter

Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

By: Rawi Abdelal

Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Policy; Economic Systems; Balance and Stability; Europe; European Union; United States

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20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

as a strategic issue," Merton says. "They had been offering unions the choice of a dollar's worth of salary or what they thought was a dollar's worth of benefits. Most unions picked the benefits,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

October 2023
Case

JPMorgan Chase in Paris

By: Joseph L. Bower, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Michael Norris

In 2019, Daniel Pinto, President and COO of JPMorgan Chase, has to make a recommendation to the bank’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, about where to physically locate the bank’s European trading operations after Brexit takes effect in 2020. The decision-making process... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Decisions; Banking Industry; Europe; European Union; France; United Kingdom; Paris

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01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details

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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations - Alumni

any particular question in itself. We thank the members of the African-American Student Union who were the most prominent contributors to this effort. Does your organization make demographic data publically available for all employees and... View Details

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Laura Arjona

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions, the African-American Student Union (AASU), the Latino Student Organization (LASO), and the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), PSD is an opportunity for members of these communities... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change

influence can equal any government’s. Based in Switzerland, UBS is a financial services company with no obligation to comply with the Kyoto Accord or European Trade Union restrictions on carbon emissions. It has a strong internal culture... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Mar 2010
News

Déjà Vu All Over Again

leading to the Panic of 1873; James Landis, an early champion of financial regulation; a run on New York’s 19th Ward Bank in the early 1900s; privately issued banknotes from the 1830s wreaked havoc with the nation’s money supply. Union... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=310032-HCB-ENG&conversationId=264222&E=1246169 Western Union: Our World, Our Family® Harvard Business School Case 410-050 In 2006, Western Union spun-off from its former... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

including deficits of 8 to 10 billion Deutsche marks and debts of over 20 billion marks. "Results were not important; markets were not a concern," he said. "Money came in courtesy of the Finance Minister, and the various stakeholders—from the supervisory... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

29 Jan 2019
News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

Clubs News Clubs News A group of 33 members and guests of the HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) took an outing on January 16 to see Gloria: A Life, a two-act play about the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, currently running at the Daryl Roth Theatre in View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Body 2 After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, HBS faculty introduced the case method to business educators in emerging free-enterprise markets in Central and Eastern Europe through the workshop for Central and Eastern European... View Details

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

prize-based saving in the credit union industry through a program known as Save to Win. “I grew up in Missouri, the ‘Show Me State,’ so all of these projects tapped into my desire to get out and implement something tangible,” he explains.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services