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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

discussed China's inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a member of the WTO, Barshefsky said, China is moving from a protectionist position to a more active, strategic role, an international function it hasn't played for the... View Details
Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

patent protection. Improvement in the enforcement of patent rights. Improvement in the administration of the patent system. On paper, fifteen of the sixteen countries we studied improved IPR along at least four of the five dimensions. In two of the countries in our... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles, and result in improved allocation of resources through the use of big data, thereby increasing sales productivity. Like many other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

purpose can serve as a radically new operating system for the enterprise, enhancing performance while also delivering meaningful benefits to society. It’s the kind of inspired thinking that businesses—and the rest of us—urgently need. Making Meritocracy: Lessons from... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

the differences in buying processes, product requirements, after-sale services, and the implications for organizing and deploying sales resources at InsideSales.com. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

negatively related to project quality, and concentration is even more harmful for project quality for geographically dispersed teams. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how organizational knowledge resources can aid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809062 JWT China: Advertising for the New Chinese Consumer Harvard Business School Case 809-079 This case analyzes the business strategy and expansion of JWT China from the late... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led the author to conclude that a dedicated board-level committee of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

might evolve into a pandemic strain that spreads easily among people, or what its lethality might be. We know only that a pandemic is possible, and that’s why the world must prepare now for the very real threat of a global public-health emergency. Does WHO currently... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poured resources into hundreds of schemes to end poverty. The World Bank alone has dispersed about $550 billion since its founding in the 1940s, Chu said. Adding in contributions from the "alphabet soup" of other organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

value to those with the resources to defend its ownership, a kind of survival of the fittest philosophy? Yet another school of thought asks whether these issues are overblown. D. R. Elliott commented that "much of the internet... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

markets is getting lower, recent attempts by China to forward-integrate into grain procurement, and changes in ownership. A related question is the degree to which they should emphasize pure trading or participate in value-added... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the conditionality of IMF and World Bank lending—remain a negative legacy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting). In each case, we find substantial propagation of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

topic of global talent management. It can be used to analyze the performance measurement, incentive, and talent development system used at a major multinational company. This case can also be used to analyze the extent to which this system should or should not be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

reformulated in light of the new data, methodology, and findings presented in this study. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsReal Blue? Viagra and Intellectual Property Rights Law in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

Nyende, Claire Ashton-James, and Michael I. Norton Abstract This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne