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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
advancement, and firms who endorse such meritocratic beliefs paradoxically practice more bias in evaluating workers (Castilla & Benard, 2010). [Read "6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
superior economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-110.pdf Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract We study how trade policy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
businesspeople as well as to legislators,” Sawyer says. “They were looking for profit-sharing plans that would enable even less efficient firms to weather the downturn.” In 1933, California approved two... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
litigation, and (3) the availability of contractual provisions and negotiating strategies that mitigate the debtor's collective action problems. It also argues that the fact-specific equitable remedy in the Argentina case was narrowly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
500 are incorporated) have made it clear that maximizing shareholder return is required only when the breakup of the corporation has become inevitable or there is a change of control. For this purpose, a merger of two publicly held View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53122 2017 The Entrepreneur's Roadmap: From Concept to IPO Entrepreneurship in Larger Companies By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Entrepreneurship in large and established companies is vital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
on social media," he said. "Unfortunately that displaces millions (spent) in strategy that we in the agency world live on. When you democratize tools in this digital age, you don't have to spend millions to produce content ." By using the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
strategy on artificial intelligence research and development ” As he put it, “DARPA is a government agency responsible for developing and deploying weapons for war fighters of... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
government and get funding for daily operations. "Investment banks, on the other hand, had no access to deposits and no access to the discount window. They were reliant on a market that takes place between financial View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
fact, many of us—rightly for the time we were focused on—assumed that firms could forecast their aggregate demand well but not their mix, and we worked on improving approaches View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
firms with global interests—one that centers around the impact that these phenomena may have on such things as the potential benefits and costs of doing business abroad? Specifically, will questions increasingly be asked about whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm. The full data set comprises more than 100 million electronic mail messages and over 60 million electronic calendar entries for a sample of more 30,000 employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possible in the work world. For the individual women who are thinking about professional re-entry, it's often hard to break the frame of "what is now" to think about "what could be," Hart says. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
on all integration task forces, but the smaller buyer went much further. The firm spent lavishly on retreats for large groups of managers and employees, discussing the strategy... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
forced to think about something that we used to take for granted. A recent study by the research firm Yankelovich Partners suggests that, while consumers generally want more control over their lives and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
1917, two-thirds of the CEOs of these companies were either Presbyterian or Episcopalian. If you were anything else, chances are you'd be turned down for the job. Religion may still be a consideration in some View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test... View Details