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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
intending to idealize what we have called the bona fide professions, we believe that the comparison we undertake in this paper has merit as a way of suggesting how management as an institution might be reformed, other than through the blunt instruments of law and View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
business, and so on. One of the most interesting things to me was how many leaders admitted that the reputation either was accidentally developed by them or bequeathed to them by circumstance. It’s like the expression, “Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
What exactly does it mean that the real interest rate has moved, or the real exchange rate has moved this way or that? There are different types of productivity—labor productivity, capital productivity, and total factor productivity.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
periodically raises concerns about audit-industry concentration and suggests ways to boost growth of smaller firms. The consolidation raises the issue of how the surviving big auditors and the nation's accounting regulators will manage... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
argue that competition can lead organizations to provide illicit quality that satisfies customer demand but violates laws and regulations and that this outcome is particularly likely when price competition is restricted. Using 28 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
developed an on-demand bus service for routes underserved by public transportation. The innovations are happening at a scale large enough to even attract venture capital investment, despite past VC skepticism about funding public... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
assume [citizen astronauts] will have to sign something that says, ‘You can't sue me.’” Will investors be patient? Another obstacle that human space travel must avoid: Venture capital money suddenly drying up if there is a perception that... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require large View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
backlash ” Harti commented that, “The problem arises when the capital moves off-shore and the work force can’t follow.” Michael put it more bluntly: “I think many Americans have woken up in a state of shocked disbelief to find out free... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Access to credit is critical to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
disclosure regulation (the U.K.), the analyst school-tie premium has remained large and significant over the entire sample period. Specialization and Success: Evidence from Venture Capital Authors:Paul A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Capital Regulation By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
in California, too. From our perspective as an investor, capital flows will follow structural reform." How much of a deterrent are shape-shifting regulations to MNCs who want to invest in Asia, wondered... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
over the appropriate level of regulation. Many view the new entrants as disruptors of an old and inefficient marketplace and caution against regulating too early or aggressively for fear of cutting off innovation that could get more View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
more difficult than anyone would wish. According to Mills, who offered the closing comments at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference held at Harvard Business School on April 21, which drew about 350 attendees, it is clear that View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
of capital markets in fostering such convergence through, for example, cross-border listings and global institutional investor activism. The software industry offers a unique setting to test the role of global product and labor markets... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details