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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
tutoring to financial support of Pediatric AIDS, The Children's Defense Fund, and Action for Children. It is likely that the Columbus corporations' interest in benefiting children stems from the influence of Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, a major Columbus firm.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
used prior to reforms but also transfer new technology to reforming countries. We did not identify any specific facets of IPR that are magic bullets when it comes to promoting technology transfers. In fact, the reforms we studied appear... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
pregnant—with just one baby this time. She wanted to quit, but her supervisor told her to stick it out for a year. A year and a day after she took that position, she moved into her current position. "My manager said she had to View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
growth. Governments, which in the past promoted FDI to the neglect, or even to the detriment, of local firms, may face increasing difficulties in the future. This line of thinking ought to entail important policy implications. Singapore:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
1984 to promote a more peaceful, inclusive world. When she learned that USIP had begun working with a consortium of global NGOs to craft an Environmental Peacebuilding Framework, she began learning more about the confluence of climate... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Corps leaders in 1992 to report what had happened to her. But senior leaders, some of whom were her father’s friends, ultimately allowed Culver to stay on in a senior role at the organization until his death in 2005, when he was celebrated for View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Transition to Democracy Promotion The Pivot: Neoconservatives, the Philippines, and the Democracy Agenda By: Fibiger, Mattias Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54829... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
classes, beauty products, and eSports offerings. Chairman Lee and VC Lee believe that KCON is a good vehicle for accelerating the Hallyu wave of Korean culture that was still sweeping the globe and riding this wave in promoting CJ Group... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
members of a network to generate more diverse information but discourages them from generating diverse theories: in the language of March (1991), clustering promotes exploration in information space but decreases exploration in solution... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 912-003 Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
doesn't take much skill to bring out the worst in others. If you seem coy or duplicitous, they will have little reason to be forthcoming. Likewise, if you pounce on an admission of weakness, you'll teach people to be more guarded. The key to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Science, the American Accounting Association, and the American Economics Association. Graduating from Cornell University in 1952, Christenson continued his education at HBS, where he earned an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar in 1954 and a DBA in 1961. He... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
in European financial markets of any country in the world. Hamilton endured enormous personal abuse during these years, but he also had the satisfaction of seeing most of "my commercial system" put into place. What Hamilton's policies had achieved, in combination with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
text, four HBS alumni demonstrate what they and their companies are specifically doing to promote sustainable development. Their efforts show how environmental strategies can both enhance productivity and help to ensure that the earth... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
common in negotiations and that many negotiators prefer to palter than to lie by commission. Paltering, however, may promote conflict fueled by self-serving interpretations; palterers focus on the veracity of their statements (“I told the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
well, a group of scholars has highlighted the importance of partnerships and limited partnerships in promoting entrepreneurship in Europe, the United States, and, more recently, in China and Latin America. Their research is a departure... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
dissertation, the World Bank, the International Corporate Governance Network, the OCDE, and so on were promoting this principle as a way to overcome the abuses of managers or controlling shareholders who expropriated small shareholders or... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
Select Builder program, for example, supports system builders for PCs, laptops, and workstations. NVIDIA also maintains reseller and distributor partnership programs for firms that promote the NVIDIA line of products.20 In addition, the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
plenty of water. Omega fatty acids, B and D vitamins, and antioxidants promote mental functioning; sugars and saturated fats impair it. Sleep As one of our wise CEOs noted, “The primary task of leaders is to avoid as many sleepless nights... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams