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31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

balances laid off more workers, regardless of their levels of sales tax reliance, the researchers found, but in cases of high sales-tax dependence, having more cash on hand weakened the effect on job losses. Federal aid to states that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

"In India, we are creating two different societies with a large disparity in income as well as access to knowledge and information." In large part, the comments seemed View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

role but aren't certain how to do so. One director pointed out a significant problem that arises when boards contemplate becoming more engaged: "I think the board is more involved. I think it's busier. I think boards have View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

People will count on their cell phone as the "hub" of their digital life, using it to access and collect information, entertainment, and other forms of data, which can then be spread View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

biography. He did not read a page of it until it came out in the form in which you see it right here. He was not involved in it financially. I sold it to a publisher myself. However, he was very cooperative. He gave me View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

that their leaders have a realistic, rational, and focused path to the future. 2. How well are we treating the people who are being laid off? Intuit’s blog is worth reading for the care it demonstrates for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

making money and investing, but it's also about entrepreneurship. And entrepreneurship in this country right now is, I think, our great hope and has been the great hope of the last two decades. Having half of our society somewhat inhibited in their View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

English and relatively strict rules have been introduced with Der Neuer Markt. These advances have increased the incentives for capable managers to seek entrepreneurial routes. The second difference is the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

Nolan: Better educated and more accepting of CIOs as partners. EE: As much as CIOs have this new leadership role, they must also be careful not to steer the company down an errant technology path, isn't that... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

by contrast, has been very careful about monetizing its site only gradually over time through the collection of customer data—all the while developing the idea by layering on new services such as messaging, photo sharing, and location... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

treating its employees well. The company provides staffers with free education services to complete high school and supplementary medical care to cover gaps in government... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

is expressed in myriad ways, from the success of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the proliferation of laws extending human rights in every domain. The new individuals have plenty of things. They have access... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

access to HBS cases. Q: How do you foresee the JRO contributing to the study and practice of management in the region? A: In the future I would like View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

different today than it did in the 1970s. Back then, workplaces were dominated by white employees, with a smattering of minorities spread across companies. The gains minorities made by joining large firms between the 1970s and 1980s aren’t being reversed today, Koning... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

addressed, business schools risk being seen as largely places where students come to develop elite social networks and acquire a credential that helps them access particular types of jobs. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

premier brands such as Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, and Vacheron Constantin. Thomke and coauthor Daniela Beyersdorfer, associate director of the Harvard Business School Europe Research Center, had unfettered access View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

debtor-in-possession financing. United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Some argue that putting earlier investors at the back of the line is unfair, but Gilson says that giving a distressed company View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

Q: The Internet's almost real-time access to news [and rumors] has undoubtedly put extra pressures on the expectations of brokerage research analysts. Given these dynamics, do you feel this could be having... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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