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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Globalization and state formation constitute one another. In the process of engaging these issues, historians of American capitalism have reimagined both the spatial divisions common to Americanists and the temporal frame of American... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
develop, and integrate smart minds governs how prosperous you will be.” Studies on whether immigrants to the United States take jobs away from Americans or constitute a drain on social welfare are mixed, says Kerr, with some research... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
constitutional in the tunnels, and on one of those walks, behind an open door usually locked, I “discovered” the tunnel to Kresge. Nervously going through a workroom and down a ramp, I found a hot, narrow, half-dark tunnel almost... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- Web
Our Values | About
necessitate developing a deeper and shared understanding of hate speech: what constitutes it, how we define it, and the repercussions for members of our community who use it. Both groups will be asked to develop recommendations we can... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Mind Your Manners
charges $16,000 for a three-month "hostess course" on manners, entertaining, and decorum. Including, but by no means limited to, how to use a knife and fork, the teachings of her institute, Ho explained, constitute "the first step in... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
negotiated relationship that individuals have with other individuals or that individuals have with society. In addition, there is a cultural quality about what constitutes a leader that changes across social situations, whether we are... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
Early iterations of IBM's ViaVoice software package featured IBM's "ideal" customer on the front: an administrative assistant sitting in front of her computer, speaking into a headset. It is easy to see why IBM targeted such customers. They View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
moves along well in a group or intergroup context when the participants are diverse enough to trigger the curiosity itch, but not so different as to be threatening. What constitutes "too much" diversity is moderated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
Philosophers have been debating what constitutes a just distribution of power for millennia, and many people are tempted to think that the philosopher’s study is precisely where the topic belongs. In fact, the opposite is true: The... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
emerged—and for those voters, the inviolability of the Panama Canal became one of their key issues. Panama's new government passed a constitutional amendment to make the Panama Canal Authority as independent as humanly possible, and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
administration. Tip: Learn from what other managers are doing successfully While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
at prescribed times or days of the week. According to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, who has studied remote work for years, totally remote workers constituted 15 percent of the US workforce as of early 2023, with another 30 percent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
things by seeing the abuses. In the United States in particular, there are all sorts of labor contracts that appear not to be legal. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws involuntary servitude. We ruled it out along with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
constituting a 1.8 to 3.2 percent reduction in sold-out probability. "I hope regulators will start seeing all these pieces of digital data as useful in helping them do a better job." They also compared hygiene compliance across... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
credit card debt to postpone the day of reckoning. Too many Americans have been expressing the Dream through the acquisition of stuff. Americans need a refresher course on the American dream. The Constitution speaks of life, liberty, and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details