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- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
much more than just an income,” says Hussam, who teaches the course Business, Government and the International Economy to MBA students. “It gives you a sense of identity, of purpose, of a larger goal. It... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping point for entrepreneurship View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
resource pools, increased corporate operational dependence on IT, and enhanced application opportunities have combined to drive this topic much higher on many companies' agendas. Different companies are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
in worker adjustments between Europe and the US together with his co-authors, Marius Faber and Andres Sarto. In Europe, people are far less likely to move, and labor market institutions are very different from their American counterparts, so the View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
scale and scope economies may be limited, and that the merger premiums have become quite high. Moreover, we know that some large distilled spirits companies, who entered the wine market quite aggressively,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity—from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
firms with global interests—one that centers around the impact that these phenomena may have on such things as the potential benefits and costs of doing business abroad? Specifically, will questions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
leverage is to sell assets. If asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in contagion. We propose a simple framework that accounts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
knowledge spillovers and capital market externalities exert a stronger impact on multinational firms while labor market pooling has a weaker effect. These findings remain robust when we examine entry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
impact on the accounting standards under which the investee firms present their financial information; the only change is in the investor's familiarity with these standards. This suggests that differences in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
first, these operations eventually become profitable. The WDC would be a center of research and learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction. Q: In what ways could the World Development... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
discriminate in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. The veiled methodology also produces larger estimates of the fraction of the population that identifies as LGBT or has had a sexual experience with a member of the same sex.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
approach when considering SOX," explains Srinivasan. The most worrisome part of the act on the business side was the mandate that required public companies to obtain an independent audit of their View Details
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
Kenyan Organization.” For years, Pons had been researching electoral politics in France. “We found that if you provide information to voters one-on-one it increased participation,” says Pons, an assistant professor of business administration in the Business,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding