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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Faculty & Research Research January 2025 Research Policy Everyone Steps Back?: The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators When Migration Fear Is High By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr , Chi Wan and... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
reasoned, rational approach to this opportunity that its business community is best equipped to provide. Why aren’t business leaders more vocal about immigration policy? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: William R. Kerr, The Gift... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
changing seasons. Go birding in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Visit the first rural, or "garden" cemetery in the United States, located on the edge of Cambridge. In addition to famous burials, remarkable monuments, and amazing plantings, this National Historic Landmark is a... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
out how long to invest and pull out [if necessary]. In Wesco's case, about a third of relationships migrated through; two-thirds fell in the trap." "The Wesco case shows that it's not just about the product. You also need to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
“It was a big step up in commitment,” Kloeblen says, and that just grew bigger: in January 2019, Kloeblen migrated to a specific portfolio company, Velocity Technology Solutions, a cloud services provider, where he became CEO. Had... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
categories) becomes unproductive due to customers migrating to e-tailers. As entire sections of these stores die from online competition, category killers are being pressed to come up with solutions to keep their overall model afloat. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, where he has been on the faculty for 15 years. He will tell you that corn’s symbiotic relationship with humans stretches back 10,000 years, originating in Mesoamerica and View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
become increasing sources of renewable fuels; in fact, we think of our Quebec landfill more as a gas plant.” Untapped Resource According to Freddie Mac, population migration in the United States is at an all-time low, but the folks who... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. William R. Kerr : Winner of the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal in the International Business/Globalization category for The Gift of Global Talent: How View Details
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
at Harvard Business School. The thing that happened was the Dust Bowl: a series of severe dust storms and droughts that decimated farms in the Great Plains during the 1930s, forcing thousands of families to abandon their property. Many View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Made in China REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of consumer electronics and computers migrated to Asia. Electrophoretic display MADE IN TAIWAN REASON Its manufacture requires expertise developed from producing flat-panel... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do displaced workers View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
problem that hits hardest at people with the least capital and it’s a real social justice concern in the case of possible sea level rise. Migration Migration manifests in many ways. Florida is one of the... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
know, no substantive solutions were reached. Instead, “markets” provided the best regulation. By 2011, according to a Pew Research Center study, the number of Mexican-born residents in the US had actually begun to decline as the Mexican economy began providing more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
hospitals treating civilians wounded in the war as well as schools and social service providers supporting the refugees. “Only 9 percent of refugees in Turkey live in refugee camps,” says Fabbe, who has long studied migration in Turkey.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
of companies, the authors show how a few pioneering organizations are turning attention management into a potent competitive advantage. Place to Space: Migrating to e-Business Models, by Peter Weill and Michael R. Vitale, is the first... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international migration motivated by income inequality; potentially adverse actions by large and economically powerful emerging nations;... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
with the results that NAFTA has produced. But it seems not to have receded in interest among at least one group of readers of this column. The column "What Lies Beyond NAFTA?," with a focus on future responses to issues concerning View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international migration motivated by income... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
Keywords: April White