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04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

intellectual property, it creates questions as to how the original creator and "owner" should act. As Gary King suggests, "Treating customers like thieves is a certain recipe for failure." The impact View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

choice has long been the United States, other countries are increasingly challenging America’s dominance. "Talent is movable, and the United States must cherish and protect its prized position at the center View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

suggestions address the basic issues? How do we bring immigration policy into alignment with the reality of what is happening at borders and in work places globally? Are low-skilled workers a burden or an opportunity? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Dec 2015
News

Examining Global Workforce Management

they implement their approaches in all the countries in which they operate. The research was sparked by a discussion of layoffs in the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Sucher was... View Details

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

innovator develop his idea before selling it? In the context of selling original movie ideas, I present a model that features the writer's private information on the idea's value, different protection levels... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 May 2015
News

Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

diseases in low-and middle-income countries. I am part of CHAI’s Global Malaria Strategy and Financing team, a team that provides direct technical and operational support to countries to strengthen their... View Details

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from... View Details

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2018
Working Paper Summaries

UK Competitiveness after Brexit

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2025
News

Assets: Matchup

Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to... View Details

Keywords: collectibles; faculty; China; Chinese leaders

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Why have various countries of the former Soviet Union taken such dramatically different economic paths since the Union's breakup? This has been a lingering puzzle of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2017
Working Paper

Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

By: Geoffrey Jones

This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth

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01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

assessments for 462 of 774 occupations, or a rate of 60 percent. (As an aside, few, if any, of the students knew of Blinder's View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

to write this work? What are some of the illusions you uncovered, and which ones strike you as most important to grapple with? A: Our country is in the midst of a major... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

for beginning teachers So, is there any hope?” Roy Damary summed up his thoughts this way: “And we all thought that the service industry was the salvation of countries facing industrial decline!” Although... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

May 2016
Background Note

Health Systems in the Developing World

By: Kevin Schulman, Muhammed Pate and Gary Carbell

This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about the organization of core elements of the health care system. The organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Developing Countries and Economies; Public Sector; Private Sector; Opportunities; Analysis

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