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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
alongside them,’ wrote Patty McCord, the company’s chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012. ‘Excellent colleagues trump everything else.’ Netflix hires ‘fully formed adults,’ self-sufficient people “who feel responsible for the company,... View Details
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Tracking Tariffs: Are Retailers Passing Costs to Consumers? | Working Knowledge
tariffs on April 2, which the Trump administration billed as “Liberation Day.” Cavallo, the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration, coauthored the paper with Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez, research assistants at HBS from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Ross with Arafat in Gaza City in 1998. Violence trumps everything. (photo: AP Wideworld Photos) Ross with Arafat in Gaza City in 1998. Violence trumps everything. (photo: AP Wideworld Photos) For more than... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- Portrait Project
Chris Kaleel
fairness trumps everything. When I see inequality, I speak out against it, on behalf of my former middle-school students, like Brionka and Jacinto, who deserve much more than I was able to give them as a young teacher. When the rules... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions and grassroots advocacy groups to make lasting and impactful policy changes—may be more important today than ever, as the Trump Administration threatens budget cuts to public education or... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
forecaster who knew future demographic trends perfectly would have poorly predicted upcoming elections. “Using previous voting results and demographic trends and applying them to future elections is just not a reliable way to forecast upcoming elections,” says Shapiro.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
eliminating SBA programs. Rather, it was an ambitious plan to make it easier for constituencies, like small businesses, to access the programs and services that are in place to help them. “The SBA is perhaps the perfect prototype for a View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump by the end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Yesterday, President Donald Trump endorsed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan proposed by Republican United States lawmakers to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as “Obamacare.” Democrats rallied against... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
of the whole. When Trump had a horrible news week, we saw in the polls that Hillary Clinton didn’t make any gains as a result of his missteps. The joke I used to make about the 2016 presidential election is, “We were shocked but not... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by... View Details
- Profile
Anna King
career and professional-development coaches, using their assessment tools to tease out what it is I'm good at and what it is I like to do." But Anna feels strongly that the HBS community trumps everything else. "It's easy to say... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
chain trends, with a focus on the events of 2017 to 2022. They found that trade has rebounded from the pandemic shock, but that aggregate measures—such as American goods imports—mask big changes in the origins of those goods. The research showed that tariffs placed on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
Trump offered me a job right after he fired me on The Apprentice. That was cool. I ended up not taking it because I was still training to come back and play in one more Olympics. I played golf with him one day, and he could hit the ball.... View Details
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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge
challenges that small- and medium-sized businesses expect tariffs to bring—and how they will react. More than half of small- and midsized- business owners in the US expect tariffs enacted by the Trump Administration to increase their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
this particular business owner, creativity and innovation trump any traditional decisions about pricing and operations. “I should charge 600 euros for a meal at elBulli,” Adrià has said, “but I do not cook for millionaires. I cook for... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Resource for the Modern Age: What happens when authenticity and vulnerability meet performance?” at the 2019 Gender and Work Symposium. Her Place at the Table in the Trump Era Robin Ely (on behalf of Deborah Kolb) Robin Ely, on behalf of... View Details