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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
elite patronage, the canal could operate as a commercial enterprise free of adverse political interference. Under the Panama Canal Authority, the canal professionalized its management and began making long-term investments with an eye to... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
hospitals teach tutorials and lead clinical rotations, and in that sense are considered faculty. The same notion of an extended faculty could apply to business schools, where the 10,000 might include alumni such as local business leaders,... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
over 33 million reviews for local businesses, with some sporting more than 1,000 reviews each. How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a scientific way to... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that it is high time our government started addressing the long-term issues America faces. It was also clear, however, that business can take collective action without waiting for government. It can invest to create more-competitive local... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
vary. A missing dimension to the global versus local debate is that global corporate brands compete with other global brands, said Holt. Consumers usually evaluate transnational brands through five different lenses, he said: Perceived... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
findings call attention to the informal, everyday practices that generate state capacity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46981 Elite Ideas and Incremental Policy Change: The Expansion of Primary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
systems for finding elite technical graduates. In addition, CarOrder.com made use of CollegeHire.com, a Trilogy portfolio company that provides a sophisticated online service to place high-tech college graduates. E-Loan's worldwide... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
be able to raise money locally sooner rather than later. Openness. CEOs often talk about the need for economies to be open because they believe it's best to enter countries that welcome direct investment by multinational... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
India was hiring in 1960s were all English-speaking and English-educated graduates from St. Stephen’s College and other elite schools of India that were more like British schools that Prince Harry would go to. That was surprising to me... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
outline other factors such as local ethnic and religious heterogeneity, the institutional legacies of colonialism and serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese companies that were more... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
model also suggests, and theoretical modeling confirms, that many of the dynamics that often accompany globalization can in fact increase the viability of locally standardized strategies over time. Specifically, dgrowth, the broadening of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, driven primarily by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that first, multinational subsidiaries fared on average better than local counterfactuals with similar economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
fueron unos de los más significativos empresarios comerciales y desempeñaron múltiples funciones en el proceso de incorporación de las economías locales al mercado internacional. En este artículo se presentan nuestras conclusiones... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group-one of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne