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- May 1982 (Revised June 1982)
- Case
Air Traffic Controllers
By: Michael Beer
On August 3, 1981 President Ronald Reagan terminated 12,000 air traffic controllers, members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, for violating their no-strike oath. Provides background on the human resources policies and practices of the Federal... View Details
Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Labor and Management Relations; Government and Politics; Labor Unions; Negotiation; Employees; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Beer, Michael. "Air Traffic Controllers." Harvard Business School Case 482-056, May 1982. (Revised June 1982.)
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
implication is that policies that foster domestic savings are important in developing countries because private savings is an important input in attracting foreign investment in frontier technology that raises the country's TFP. If View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
federal enforcement. Women demonstrating for voting rights found themselves demonized in government propaganda, beaten and starved while illegally imprisoned, and even confined to the insane asylum. When, in the twilight of his second... View Details
- December 2017
- Response
Reply: Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?
By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our interpretation thereof. We welcome authors to continue to explore the data for themselves and look forward to the new... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence
Cohen, Lauren, Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Reply: Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?" Journal of Political Economy 125, no. 6 (December 2017): 2232–2237.
- March 2006 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Eldeco: Playing in the Big League
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Siddarth Yog
In 2001, Pankaj Bajaj is considering whether to go forward with a residential development outside New Delhi. Facing an uncooperative local authority, he must determine how to evaluate the risks of proceeding against the potential loss of a golden opportunity to bring... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Construction; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Real Estate Industry; New Delhi
Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas P. Retsinas, and Siddarth Yog. "Eldeco: Playing in the Big League." Harvard Business School Case 206-116, March 2006. (Revised June 2010.)
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
industry—as well as those that target other industries—increases the likelihood that the firm will acquiesce to shareholder requests to disclose related information. These findings extend existing theory by showing how organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk
By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer and Carolina Camacho
By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Trade; Global Strategy; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Colombia
Musacchio, Aldo, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer, and Carolina Camacho. "Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk." Harvard Business School Case 710-012, January 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
Related Links Read about other efforts in healthcare delivery Three HBS students spent much of the last academic year helping a leading Boston hospital answer one of the most important questions in health-care management: how to create a... View Details
- April 2011
- Article
What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?
What can one legitimately learn-analytically and/or prescriptively-from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton... View Details
Keywords: Learning; International Relations; History; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution
Sebenius, James K. "What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?" Negotiation Journal 27, no. 2 (April 2011).
- Article
The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account
By: Magnus Thor Torfason and Paul Ingram
We examine the influence of an interstate network created by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) on the global diffusion of democracy. We propose that IGOs facilitate this diffusion by transmitting information between their member states and by interpreting that... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Networks; Society; Transformation; Power and Influence; Country; Globalization
Torfason, Magnus Thor, and Paul Ingram. "The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account." American Sociological Review 75, no. 3 (June 2010): 355–77.
- October, 2023
- Article
Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants
By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the... View Details
Keywords: Valuation Of Environmental Effects; Housing Demand; Water Pollution; Water Quality; Infrastructure; Pollution; Consumer Behavior
Cassidy, Alecia, Robyn C. Meeks, and Michale R. Moore. "Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants." Journal of Public Economics 226 (October, 2023).
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
Corporate Intern Program. We hire interns across a diversity of business areas working on market-shaping strategies in areas which include Digital Innovations, Merchandising, Marketing, Analytics, Product Development, and Government... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Image by Digital Art/Corbis Related Links Listen to a podcast of Professors Rawi Abdelal, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor discussing the future of energy The catch-all “green” category covers a range of industries, from wind and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
Thoren Photo courtesy Beth Thoren Related Links View video of confrontations in the Southern Ocean Have you noticed that when you live in a big city long enough, your thoughts can struggle to travel further than the building in front of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Ayala told BusinessWorld, “...there was a confluence of things.” In the June 2 article, Ayala (who is not related to the Ayala family that owns Ayala Land), elaborated, “In all our lives there are certain times when you feel that God is... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that when the government funds itself with relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Supermarkets in Inner Cities
By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
Excerpts from five articles that present the challenges and opportunities inherent in opening and operating supermarkets in inner-city neighborhoods. View Details
Keywords: Urban Scope; Market Entry and Exit; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Business and Community Relations; Business Ventures; Strategic Planning; Cooperation
Austin, James E., and Jaan Elias. "Supermarkets in Inner Cities." Harvard Business School Case 796-145, March 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
utilitarian connection in the purely-altruistic and idealist actor Before undertaking any sort of substantial motivation analysis, it is worthwhile to focus on two different but related questions: what drives organizations to engage in... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
were using, only 10 women were using these toilets. That led us to think about exclusive toilets for women, or as we call the She toilets. Which are taken care of by a women caretaker, which have menstrual hygiene related facilities, and... View Details