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- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
lobbying and maneuvering on individual pieces of legislation and regulation, businesses need to use collective institutions to define and promote a positive, values-based, non-partisan agenda. That will allow them to regain credibility in... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
lobby my father for startup capital. To our surprise, the money was forthcoming almost immediately. Years later, after Thermo Electron was already a great success, we learned that after reading our business plan, my father, who knew... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
increase in domestic investment, employment or R@amp;D—even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions and for firms that appeared to be financially constrained. Instead, a $1 increase in repatriations was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
but an insufficient grasp of the details, and CMOs (chief marketing officers) often view go-to-market decisions as being tactical. What passes for channel strategy often rests with sales divisions, but their primary motivation is to sell and they neither craft channel... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
recruiting women, and lobbying for updating the School's literature "to reflect the fact that MBAs are not all men." By the 1980s women were a fully integrated part of the School, and the pages of the Bulletin reflected this new era. As... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
be financially constrained or lobbied for the holiday. Instead, estimates indicate that a $1 increase in repatriations was associated with a $0.60 to $0.92 increase in payouts to shareholders—despite regulations stating that such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
IFRS in China Karthik Ramanna, G.A. Donovan, and Nancy DaiHarvard Business School Case 110-037 In 2005, China announced plans to "converge with," but not completely adopt, IFRS. China also began to lobby for changes to specific... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001. In the years since, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
driving around with a map and sticking little dots on it to represent different types of property," recalls Lionstone's Dubrowski. "I'd identify tenants in a building by walking into the lobby and reading the directory."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
measures. The election is held, and the union is either accepted or not. Unions are now trying to change the rules, by lobbying for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, under which workplaces would be automatically unionized if union... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, Sawyer argues that trade associations of independent proprietors... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
to SEC concerns over pooling misuse. I also find evidence consistent with lobbying support for SFAS 142 increasing in firms' discretion under the standard. Agency theory predicts such unverifiable discretion can be used opportunistically.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
"reliability." The results contribute to a broader understanding of the implications of regulated standard setting beyond our current knowledge of the role of corporate lobbying in the process. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Newbridge Capital, faces a tough call in regard to his firm's investment in Shenzhen Development Bank, China's fifteenth-largest commercial bank listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Due to the aggressive lobby of the existing management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
policy, not only would Medicare not cover the medication, but patients could no longer pay for it out of pocket. Instead, the cost had to be absorbed by the physician or surgery center. Imprimis now had to figure out a way to deal with the effects of this policy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania’s 501 school districts—she says that HBS trained her well for the critical task of overseeing how taxpayer money is spent. As she sits in the lobby of a downtown Scranton hotel—a soaring, converted train station built in... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
confidence. Their continued enthusiasm to lobby their senators and representatives will be important to his ability to legislate his campaign promises. Governing as president therefore requires a combination of “push” and “pull”... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese