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- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
companies. "The average seed company earns about $2 million per day of revenue for high- selling GMO crops such as soybeans," notes Hiatt. "That's a substantial amount." He stresses that these findings only concern the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
all-year-round—even though the true color of butter fluctuated throughout the year. “Uniformity of color was one of the qualities that butter color makers stressed to their customers,” Hisano writes, citing a 1905 advertisement in which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
company and you're investing in more advanced equipment, that's going to push your local suppliers into having to innovate," Pisano says. "If you want to work with us as a local supplier, you have to be able to achieve this level of quality or this level of... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
asserts, "is the ultimate weapon to help leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century." Leaders at companies that particularly stress innovative new products and services, she adds, give virtual kaleidoscopes to everyone else in their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
automobiles. Unilever and Nestlé account for 40 percent of the entire U.S. ice cream market. Yet quantitative data suggests that the return on assets of foreign-owned companies in the U.S. is consistently lower than U.S.-owned firms. While a favourite explanation for... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
describe a resulting decline in credit ratings that will impose financial stress on those institutions that have written credit protection, which will in turn cause their credit ratings to decline and thus create further View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
work out," Clarizio said. "Kids get sick; you can't control everything." One thing she learned was not to make her life more stressful than it needed to be. "Travel less and be flexible about working at home," she... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
strong—and mainly Chinese-dominated—business class. In this context, FDI as well as public sector firms proved very valuable in a political sense. Huang stresses that he does not question the political rationale behind those policies that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
the Internet "is the result of a product based society." All of this is notwithstanding the fact that manufacturing in our "product based society" represents less than 20% of U.S. gross domestic product these days. While View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
difference, stereotypes, organizational change, and work/family. In her presentation on difference, Dartmouth's Ella Bell stressed the importance of multicultural gender studies. "It's not just about white women," she said,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
global south to explain how clusters work as major tools for international business. Particularly in the developing world, multinationals have used clusters as platforms for channeling foreign investment, knowledge, and imported inputs. The study concludes by View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
should pause and ask, "Are we working the way we want to work, have conditions changed, should we do something different because we have a new CEO or because the new CEO is a more experienced person in whom we have more confidence?" It is important to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
and face the dire condition of the US government's finances. In fact, it's time to press snooze. First, the fiscal stress on the United States is not imminent. Borrowing costs for the government are at historic lows. Bond markets, which... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of health care spending, we should launch a decade-long national "Healthy Living" campaign focusing on nutrition, diet, physical fitness, and stress reduction. We cannot continue to ignore the obesity epidemic sweeping the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
world in a way that fits the new realities of the global economy, fosters leadership, and uses citizen-diplomats to befriend moderates in troubled regions and business networks to ensure success in the major emerging economies; and (6) building community by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Abstract—We tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview-preparatory power posing-would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
source of much stress because they almost always have implications that ripple throughout the film and force multiple changes, as we just saw. In that postmortem, one employee recalled that John Lasseter, director of the film and a... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
banks to roll over their short-term debt. We document that there was a simultaneous run by borrowers who drew down their credit lines, leading to a spike in commercial and industrial loans reported on bank balance sheets. We examine whether these two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace