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- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
Laurence Dutton SUMMING UP How Should America Admit Talented Workers of the World? The notion of attracting talented workers to the United States deserves support, especially at times when the unemployment rate is low. But the H-1B... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
people who start companies have to do. Many of our students are confronted for the first time with some very realistic problems. We then move on to managing relationships. Since an entrepreneur really... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
what seemed to work in the past, and build on that,” he says. At the time there was intense debate about companies that were deemed “too big to fail,” and how they could be regulated in a way that limited... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
In recent months, world leaders—including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty. Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow through on them have been... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
early 2003 would have 10,000 shares today. Why would a company want to cut the trading price of its stock by so much? A: In a stock split, each share of the firm is divided into more units, but the proportional ownership of each... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
make sure that in the drive to add new customers, existing clients whose contracts were expiring were not "slipping through the cracks" when it came time to renew. But who within the company should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
was what this free product would do to print revenues. Third, experiments and innovation require time and, by definition, a tolerance for failure. Trouble is, quarterly reporting pressures by public markets do not create the most... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
successful companies, the stage of the portfolio company (risky early stage versus less-risky later stage), and how much media attention the company had received at the time of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
challenges, at times through public-private partnerships, can represent a "great investing opportunity" for companies like GE, he said. "When you're a big company, you have to play in big... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
at the same time there's a lot of household credit expansion it's a measure that you're in the Red-zone. We found that that is very predictive of crises. Generally, that and a couple of other papers that Sam Hanson and I have worked on... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
for the time we reasonably need to get things done,” Whillans says. Gracefully bow out of extraneous activities. Many employers are trying to help their employees unwind by scheduling virtual coffee breaks, lunch gatherings, and happy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
indicators in China’s economy have been slowing for some time. In January, the official data for GDP growth was 7.4 percent, the weakest in 24 years and the first time in a century that growth fell short of the official target, although... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Publications February 2015 Little, Brown and Company Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges By: Cuddy, Amy Abstract—We often meet life's challenges with fear and anxiety. We fail to be our best and end up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
The noncompete clause is the basis for a love-hate relationship, depending on which side of the desk you're seated. The noncompete is meticulous legal phrasing that forbids inventors or other professionals from offering their talents to an organization's competitors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
monetize concepts, many of them apps for Android and IOS, driving doubtful revenue models in packed market segments with little differentiating code." Nol Perreira asked, "What will prick the bubble? The timing of that is, one... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
Akron, Ohio tire cluster—to try to discover how Akron companies turned into what he calls a "community of inertia." Drawing as well on research by other scholars, including Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, Sull's... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne