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- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
and influence government policy with your interests in mind," remarked Newman. Successful partnerships are undertaken with clearly defined common goals and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
always been the case. Q: Belarus, for example? A: The idea in Russia is sometimes that Belarus wants a handout, an economic bailout; and Russia is not sure that it should be expending resources to maintain View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
said. The potential influence on drug development in particular, and medicine in general, is enormous, panelists agreed. Today's drugs can reach some 400 to 500 potential disease "targets" in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms' overall strategy. The result: lower... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
As a young teacher at Harvard Business School, Brian J. Hall called on longtime professor James Cash for a favor: Hall wanted to study the inner workings of General Electric, and he needed Cash's help to get in touch with top-level... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
subjects.” Few workers have Sandra’s power to influence the strategic decisions that affect their working lives. Such lack of control is associated with job dissatisfaction, greater mental strain, and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
other words, according to our readers, our level of patience depends—on the nature of the task; on whether we are focused completely on just one task; on personal circumstances such as anxiety, fatigue, or available time; and on our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
business leaders for intensive discussions of the spiritual dimensions of leadership and how their personal beliefs govern their lives and positively influence the roles they... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
project variables that can be changed are therefore the cost of the mission and its scope (or complexity). These two variables, in turn, influence the level of risk in the mission (i.e., the likelihood of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
great principles in economics: the concept of comparative advantage and how it influences everything from nations to house painters. —Sean Silverthorne book excerpt A Brief Aside On The Theory Of Comparative... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Summing Up The jury is in. Nearly all respondents to this month's column would advise U.S. firms such as Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft to continue to operate in China despite the government's possible use of their content or... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
corresponded with the stock market peaks such as in the late 1990s and 2006-2007, with dips during recessions in the early 1990s and 2001. What influenced M&A in different... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
more performance-driven if they are going to survive long-term. Socially speaking, families are becoming somewhat less enmeshed, hierarchical, and strictly controlling, which is a result of the globalization of these economies as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
"Silicon Valley is definitely a strong influence in Asia," says Leonard, "but its trends are subject to a different cultural filter." The list of HBS research projects in the Asia-Pacific region is long View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
Companies and people need to embrace change in order to succeed in the future, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In this, the second of a two-part interview for HBS Working Knowledge, she explains the leadership skills of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace