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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
barriers and biases that stand in the way. I’m proud to say that M&T is laying the groundwork for this with a four-point approach that includes access to education, access to capital, development programs, and diversity in our View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
yourself on the wrong end of a future workforce reduction, you'll likely be tagged with the dreaded "not a team player" label, and future opportunities could be severely limited. So what's the recipe for successful... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
percent of the US workforce works in sales (versus 6 percent in manufacturing), and this underestimates the number. Lots of people who do business development for a living are called “partners” or... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
careers began when men dominated the workforce and women shouldered all caregiving needs. Now a vicious cycle persists: Employees suffer in silence and eschew potentially helpful benefits, and employers assume that employees are coping... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
directly on the nature of the barriers that you face. When you have a potential deal in mind, we have developed a set of tools to quickly perform what we call a "3-D barriers audit" to determine what barriers stand between you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
truck drivers, so there is a shortage all over the world of Class A truck drivers,” says Lu, adding that the US driver workforce also experiences over 100 percent turnover every year. According to Lu, there is a shortage of 80,000 truck... 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
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
generated strong interest in South Africa, the United Kingdom, northern European countries, Middle Eastern countries, developing countries, and Central and Latin America. Given all those experiences as well as our market research, I'd be... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- Blog Post
HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase
consultant to a public or nonprofit sector organization and develop solutions to a policy or management issue. Students and their clients work together to define specific issues, design research strategies, gather data, formulate and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
and everybody can use the same types of technology, gaining these kinds of edges and increasing your competitive advantage is pretty important,” Nagle says. Examples of other crowdsourced public goods in the digital world include programming languages like Python and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
professionals and have added other stressors. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/VtWZQANR832VXBHD5uwk][/div] The view across industries To better understand variations across industries, the researchers compared the survey results with a remote-work feasibility index... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS
evidenced by several industry-wide statistics: Women represent 47% of employees across all US job sectors, but the five largest tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft) only have 34.4% women in their workforce... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
I’d have been as strong of a person entering the workforce as I was. —Annette Friskopp (MBA 1990), coauthor of Straight Jobs, Gay Lives: Gay and Lesbian Professionals, the Harvard Business School, and the American Workplace (1995) with... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership
transition from the workforce into a hectic RC (first) year. I subsequently joined LASO's leadership team as the VP of Career Development and helped plan our annual Adelante Conference. With my classmate’s... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
existent. "Bribery is a global phenomenon, and people engage in this type of behavior all over the world," Serafeim says. "There are different magnitudes and different extents of bribery, but everywhere in the world you can find it. The idea that bribery... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
WORK? That concept can be confusing because we all wear masks at work. One of the most extreme examples is the workforce at Disney theme parks. As soon as those people come out from behind the scenes, they are on stage—happy, smiling, and... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman