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06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

2011) Abstract In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Jolie Chow

financial hub, inspired another perspective as well. "I wondered what business might mean to governance, to sovereignty, to ordinary lives." That curiosity led to an undergraduate education in the United States. "In Hong... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

to further economic growth and environmental preservation in the United States and China. “The United States and China need to help power global... View Details

15 Sep 2016
News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

prosperity to millions of Americans if the United States remains mired in crippling political gridlock and vicious rhetoric. In addition to government, business must take responsibility for restoring US... View Details

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

center of everything I pursue” Little did Nadella know that Microsoft would become caught up in the controversy concerning the treatment of immigrant families crossing the southern border of the United View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

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Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge

employee engagement in the United States has reached an 11-year low, with employee satisfaction tanking and many people looking for new work. Those who are sticking with their current employers feel more... View Details

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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

steel mill plant in Pennsylvania and the Fairless Hills community for plant employees. The film underscores the corporation’s outreach efforts with the local community. Full film available at: https://vimeo.com/353587440 United View Details

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Slider Selection of springs made by U.S. Steel, American Steel & Wire, Waukegan, Illinois. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1951. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Serves the Nation, 1901-1951: The Fifty Year Story... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

differences between consumers in the United States and Europe was just one of the topics covered at the fourth annual European Business Conference, presented November 21 and 22 by students of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

January 2002 (Revised July 2004)
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Renationalization of Railtrack?

Railtrack faces bankruptcy five years after its privatization. Railtrack's performance deteriorated since its privatization in 1996, exhibited by its weakening financial health, unsatisfactory services, poor safety record, and mismanaged investment program. In October... View Details

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Privatization; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; State Ownership; Rail Industry; United Kingdom

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01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations’ excess cash — as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates — is held outside the United States to avoid the... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

assistant professor Regina Abrami, who led the breakout session “China in the WTO: Two Years In.” The United States and other developed nations welcomed the required lowering of tariff and nontariff trade... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

John C. Malone

formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States and grew into a media powerhouse... View Details

Keywords: Communications

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

17 Dec 2015
News

Examining Global Workforce Management

in Brazil. Furloughs as an alternative to layoffs are used less frequently in the United States than in the rest of the world. Sucher’s case on Honeywell reveals how the firm—the only one of its US peers to... View Details

Forrest E. Mars, Sr.

Uncle Ben’s. By the early 1970s, his candy business amounted to about $200 million in the United States with an additional $55 million in Britain. Of the ten top selling candy bars in the View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

board members are dissenting from the party line and which are following the majority. “In the United States you know this happens, but you don't get to observe it." —Juan Ma Khanna and HBS doctoral... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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