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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
discusses common assumptions about pre-revolutionary China, from both an economic and a political perspective. (Footnotes have been deleted.) Economics At mid-century, Chinese revolutionaries and many foreign scholars believed that China... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
something that has been rarely analyzed. Why do you think this aspect of the role of government has been ignored? A: While it is true that risk management has never before been viewed as a function of government, nearly all of the underlying View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
achieved largely through the bond of family membership or the personal loyalty of appointees. The family patriarch might take an annual voyage to visit key foreign holdings, and would perhaps also correspond with the appointed heads of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
and increases the chance that governments will under-invest. Policy suggestions that may alleviate this problem are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-040.pdf A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
developing countries. After receiving generous amounts of aid in the early years of its development, the country weaned itself off these external flows as quickly as possible. They now maintain a comfortable cushion of foreign reserves to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
more productive.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: FatCamera] Related Reading How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13824 Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
headquarters are large (255 median staff for a 20,000 FTE MNC) and European headquarters smaller (124). Implications are drawn that countries will lose activities if domestic firms are acquired by foreign MNCs, and that MNCs need to allow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing orthodoxy had been determined in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
or those of other states. The national government, which had borrowed huge sums from foreign creditors to fight the long War of Independence, lacked the power to tax its citizens and repay its debts. “It was something of a miracle that... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf PublicationsInstitutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
political spectrum assumed, according to a July article in Cognition, “I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice.” In the survey of about 300 voters, Trump voters were asked how important certain political issues—for example, immigration,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman