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- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at how the importation of highly...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Washington The People’s Republic of China is more open to foreign investment and trade than it has ever been. Beijing has recently removed restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector and...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
survey cited specific actions their companies had implemented to remain competitive. The majority had taken steps such as improving worker training, investing in technology, growing exports, and expanding to new markets. Among the...
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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
used to be that you looked at the fraction of foreign students to get a sense of how global the class is. Today, students may say “I have an American passport,” but they’ve worked in four or five different firms and countries. Dean Nohria...
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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Management Training Program and experienced a brief postwar enrollment boom. The new name reflected a broader scope that included human relations as well as production issues related to industry and government. T. North Whitehead, who had served in the war in the...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved...
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Deborah Blagg
- Web
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
his life and career in South America. Sawyer’s letters include his perspective on contemporary life in Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia in the early 20th century. He describes the landscape and infrastructure such as railways, the relationship between South American View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
employed more than 10 million American workers and generated $1.8 trillion in revenue in 2003, concluded a study by Global Insight, a leading economic and forecasting firm. HBS professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, in their 2001 book,...
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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Starbucks' strategy, Smith notes, centers on first-mover advantage. That approach has worked well in North America and abroad, as Starbucks, through foreign partnerships, continues to build its presence in Asia, the Middle East, Europe,...
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- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Experiment By: Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian Abstract—When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Periodical:Economic Journal 117 (2007): F189-F217 Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Stobaugh suggests the problem is U.S. dependence on foreign oil; the most promising approaches to achieving a more balanced energy menu, he thought, would be largely through increased energy efficiency and focusing on solar energy as the...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
building an electrical component. This information instructs local engineers and other local skilled workers concerning key elements of the firm's technology. The reforms we studied appear to be effective because they were sustained,...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
may not be illegal, but can cause enormous amounts of reputational damage.” A good code can also help workers do their jobs better. Most employees want to follow the rules and do the right thing, but may not understand how to comply with...
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by Michael Blanding