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  • January 2004
  • Article

Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry
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  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

are very different consumers from the more affluent. What kind of business models are needed? A: There are three major challenges. First, there is the issue of cultural distance between corporate decision makers and the poor. Let's face... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that legal foundations exist for directors to indeed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

Shih: I think it becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

What's more, since going green is now red hot, a growing number of companies—especially in Europe and Japan—are also starting to issue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 10 Feb 2014
  • HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

dark, it's dusty, and over your head is a mile of solid rock. Oh, and you are doing heavy physical labor for 12 hours. That's being in the mines." “You had white supervisors who grew up under apartheid overseeing black mine workers.”... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Special Issue on Management Innovation-Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. ChandlerIndustrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (2010): 465-482. Abstract Science has long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices.  (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

From resolving a labor dispute to orchestrating a merger to getting a new company off the ground, negotiation plays a vital role in nearly every facet of business. In response, Professor James Sebenius, founder of the HBS Negotiation Unit... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • July 2021
  • Supplement

Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (B)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case View Details
Keywords: Change; Communication; Diversity; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Employees; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Work-Life Balance; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Technology Platform; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

copyright infringement and forced the startup out of business. Similarly, taxi companies are now actively lobbying local governments to curtail Uber. “The whole issue of cutting the cord is a huge risk for [cable companies]” Other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

operational innovation to manage the tradeoff between cost and quality. It's an issue you find in every business, whether you're a chef or an executive at Mercedes or BMW or Apple." In November, Oldani visited Pisano's second-year... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The large variation in costs among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

economic recovery, including too much combined government and consumer debt, inflexible labor markets, and growing political anxiety, which is spreading from southern Europe into northern countries such as Austria and the Netherlands.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-019.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAreva Harvard Business School Case 109-092 Areva, the world's market leader in civilian nuclear power, was positioned to take advantage of the resurgence of nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Authors:Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

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