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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
in the prosperous country, stimulates demand for products and services, and creates as many jobs as it fills, thereby not increasing unemployment. In the US, as the argument goes, it could also help address the economic shortfall in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
with discrete transfers. Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
the macro reforms don't actually do well in the end. Their prosperity really doesn't come. You need to do both together. You can't just kind of do the grand sweeping macro reform. You've got to do the hard, gritty work of kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril—to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter's view, the general prosperity produced by the "capitalist engine" far outweighs the wreckage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
correcting this largely leave us with a frustrating sense that there is every reason to think that the industry will continue to grow and prosper without significantly affecting the quality of leadership in the world. Our readers shared... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great prosperity for many technology... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
energy business, for instance. In the end, the class did not come up with a clear solution—because there isn't one. Societies persuade institutions to solve one set of problems. If the institutions are successful, more prosperity is... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
prosperity it lost over the recent past. The difficulties will not disappear—much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa, and there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
aeronautics industry has undergone ups and downs in the past decades: Large orders of planes (and engines) and their cancellation can create prosperity or wreak havoc in these concentrated labor markets. This research surfaces the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
prosper through the ceaseless gales of creative destruction that lie at the heart of capitalism, you must figure out how to institutionalize its core capabilities. You must learn, as Howard Schultz once said, that successful businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
it can survive and prosper in the coming market correction. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807006 Centre Partners—American Seafoods 2003 Harvard Business School Case 207-077 Centre... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
same rules. "Mexico has an incredibly low level of taxation. It simply lacks the public funds to invest in itself," Maurer says. "A lack of foreign investment is not why Mexico is less prosperous than Arizona," he... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
unemployment, but such measures are needed when lending money to a government with a very poor track record in managing the government budget for the prosperity of its citizens. Nor are those measures the cause of the inability of Greece... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
now formally elected as head of state, considers an economic strategy to meet Rwanda's current challenges and increase the country's prosperity over the next decade. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
many times in the past, it will prosper by creating a distinctly Japanese approach. If you have read my other work, you know that I believe that the U.S. is far from perfect. For example, many U.S. companies suffer from a short time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
have it all figured out except the money." I'm not talking about rapacious financial manipulators making trading profits like Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. I'm talking about using the tools of finance to build subways, water treatment plants, bridges, efficient roads—all... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
judgment or tactical execution. Having a metric in place that rates your priorities and weighs tradeoffs will enable you to make good decisions on the fly. Axiom #3: Learn And Adapt Bolstering your capacity to sense and respond is key to View Details
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
of its own; it reflects only the collective outcome of a relentless pursuit of individual gain. "A company prospers by creating a broader sense of purpose which allows individuals to align their interests and engage in collective action."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace