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- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
do you think? Original Article Sometimes it's the smallest books on our shelves that contain the most provocative ideas. Take, for example, a little book, The Nature of Mass Poverty, based on series View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
that research. Srinivasan's work with Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu furthers the debate regarding the effect of globalization on corporate governance systems. –Ed.Churchwell: How do you define corporate and View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
too long a period of time for the disruptive growth engine to function. Can the appropriate culture be created and rewarded and the process—or as Patel terms it, the "pathways" —be designed and managed successfully over... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
although research on this topic has often focused on high technology manufacturing companies, I have written extensively on the service sector, on business groups and alliances rather than hierarchical corporations, and on the different ways the entrepreneurs and firms... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
would suggest avoiding intervention. But when it is national, he suggests that other countries "wait & watch, and move in at an appropriate time, whether invited or not." Given the widely varying nature View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
community or state or country needs, and ask how the capabilities of the company can contribute to that." P&G's statement of purpose says they "improve the lives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Art of Strategic Renewal By: Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—In recent years, we have seen well-established companies such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
European countries where vacations are mandated, most employees take their prescribed amounts of time off. In America, where vacation time is not mandated, roughly half of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
demand which is deemed as justified by a panel ." What isn't off limits when it comes to transparency? What do you think? Original Article When Sony was hacked recently, most observers concentrated on issues View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
best adapt to differences in the basic institutions of capitalism and consumer preferences across countries as well as within them. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back and companies were again encouraged by host View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
in that country. And James Trantham commented that "I noticed while traveling and working in countries in both Eastern and Western Europe ... that this debate is everywhere." To what degree has technology changed all View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
natural state which a country must get to, to move to the next level " Ken Black commented: "Of course productivity contributes to social inequality, but there are a lot of non-productive people in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
the product? In Europe, consumers in 13 different countries have 13 different preferences for the texture and taste of tomato soup. In addition, a company may decide to offer a product completely outside its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details