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- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
countries were pondering policies regarding a flood of guest workers, some legal and some illegal. These issues tend to arise at times of economic growth or stress. The differing rates at which countries emerge from the recent global... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that LBOs decrease... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
REALCities.com links city guides from over forty different markets with a very powerful user interface. Its national job board, CareerBuilder.com, is one of the leading national job sites, recently acquiring Headhunter.net. The Washington... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
political, as they faced widespread host government hostility and expropriation. In the contemporary global economy, political risk partially declined with the spread of liberalization, although the management of relations with host governments remained a challenge,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012 By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study immigrant entrepreneurship and firm ownership in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners (SBO). The survival and growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
him to start a back-office services firm for their insurance company clients, which grew into ReSource Pro. By year-end 2007, ReSource Pro employed 250 people, of whom only four were U.S. based. With aggressive growth plans, Bruno began... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Stadtmuseum. Dusseldorf: Hatje Cantz Verlag (Forthcoming) (Forthcoming) Abstract The article examines how a group of leading Düsseldorf businessmen during the first wave of globalization prior to 1914 helped to leverage the artistic legacy of a quiet, royal residential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
by foreign ethnicities, Indians and Chinese in particular, was closely tied to H-1B admission levels. A 10 percent increase in the H-1B population correlated with a 4 percent to 5 percent growth in Indian ethnic invention in dependent... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-052.pdf Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe By: Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv Abstract—This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
Governments and policymakers often assume that infrastructure development is key to jumpstarting economic growth for citizens, an “If we build it they will come” chain reaction of new jobs, more efficient transportation, and safer... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
technologies, electronic cigarettes were developed by small entrepreneurs with brand names like Logic eCig (founded 2010), Blu (2009), and NJOY (2006). By 2013, according to the case study, the e-cigarette category featured more than 200 brands and their View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
reflected on the firm's past phase of growth before meeting with the company's Chairman and founder to discuss how to further scale what they called the Mother Standard of Care and, in the process, change the face of cancer care. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
implications for pay inequality and pay transparency Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54750 Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
714-510 Health City Cayman Islands Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities Authors:Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Stanley S. Litow Abstract The need for a fresh approach to U.S. communities is more urgent than ever because of the biggest global economic crisis since the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Teaching Plan
Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Brian Trelstad and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-008. In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne