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28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Materialist Fallacy, The New York Times, February 14, 2012. Andy Grove, How America Can Create Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 1, 2010. Michael Spence, The Next Convegence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, Farrar,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry Kissinger, who commented recently to Bloomberg News... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

in introducing a fabric into the Company’s athletic garments that, when stretched, became transparent. He went on to explain on Bloomberg TV that “Some women’s bodies don’t work for the pants.” Employee behaviors began reflecting this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter on America’s Historic Energy Opportunity

Full Report Press Coverage 11 JUN 2015 BLOOMBERG U.S. Losing the Race to Raise Workforce Skills 11 JUN 2015 BLOOMBERG U.S. Fracking Debate: Environment Vs. Economics 11 JUN 2015 NPR America's Next Economic... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter; Energy; Utilities

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of as charity, saysJed Emerson,... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

debunk the opposition's claims that regulating greenhouse gases will lead to economic catastrophe. Those very same arguments have been made time and again when environmental regulations have been proposed. As the Economist and Bloomberg... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

Research Center, April 23, 2012. Alex Webb and Alessandro Speciale, “Refugees May Ease a German Labor Crunch,” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 21-27, 2015, pp. 16-18. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

otherwise, the campus is comparable in population to a small town or a neighborhood in a large city, and to the latter in area. Unlike most towns and neighborhoods, the campus has, however, almost no signage to guide visitors. Benefactors' names (like View Details

Keywords: Education

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

and gift certificates for post-pandemic gatherings. Large businesses and state and local governments need to make small business contracting a priority. Biden administration policymakers and mayors from the Bloomberg Harvard City... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

posters, broadsides, circulars, brochures, souvenir publications, and novelty items along with trade journals and other publications. It will be on display in the north lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center at Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

Ammunition Sales and Discourage ‘Open Carry’ of Guns in Stores, The New York Times, September 4, 2019, pp. B1 and B4. Alfred Rappaport, “How CEOs Can Forge a New Kind of Shareholder Value,” Bloomberg Opinion, September 4, 2019,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

first big-city innovation offices in the United States. In April 2013, he helped guide the mayor’s office’s response to the attacks on the Boston Marathon. At HBS, he has helped build the Young American Leaders Program and is an adviser to the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

to solve challenges for customers quickly without a supervisor's approval. This capability is one reason why an analyst on Bloomberg recently opined that Southwest might be the airline best prepared to adapt and emerge successfully from... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

time. Is B Lab's tripartite strategy its secret sauce or its albatross? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411047-PDF-ENG Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P. Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

at the number of times investors accessed environmental and social data on Bloomberg terminals and ranked countries based on the number of "hits," accounting for the size of each country's capital market. We also developed a call to... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

agreements, that support relative-value strategies. Careful attention is paid to the bond math calculations that support the protagonist's analysis and decision. All quoted prices in the case are real and historical, and corresponding View Details