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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy, & Society . Research Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace , Harvard Business Review, 2022. With Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, and Patrick Hull. Digital Commerce and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
detailed their findings in the working paper “Discrimination, Disenfranchisement, and African American WWII Military Enlistment,” released in January. The researchers found similar patterns among Japanese Americans. In March 1942, the US... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
our inefficiencies. For example, if important customers are migrating to smaller order sizes, the company can focus on reducing setup and order handling costs. The company can ask the customer to use electronic channels, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
replace it are effective in minimizing negative externalities from operational risk events. The authors make recommendations for an alternative approach. Related Themes: Stabilization Policy & Regulation More Info Credit Migration and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
out how long to invest and pull out [if necessary]. In Wesco's case, about a third of relationships migrated through; two-thirds fell in the trap." "The Wesco case shows that it's not just about the product. You also need to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Less Info The case “Andonix: Leading Innovation in Turbulent Times” looks at David Yanez, a Mexican factory worker who migrated to Detroit to found a new venture in 2017 that provided a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do displaced workers View Details
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Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks 1998 | About
2019. This sculpture, and Migrating Pedmarks , were previously on view at LongHouse Reserve in New York. Prior to that, they were at Storm King Art Center, as part of the 2015 exhibition Water Sources . Benglis grew up surrounded by... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
know, no substantive solutions were reached. Instead, “markets” provided the best regulation. By 2011, according to a Pew Research Center study, the number of Mexican-born residents in the US had actually begun to decline as the Mexican economy began providing more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
line IT support for MBA students, Executive Education participants, and HBS Alumni. Depending on patterns of business activity, Anthology addresses between 10% and 20% of user support requests per month that would otherwise have gone to... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
same subject. Using a detailed dataset to track civil war casualties across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55048 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
high, it's when the change is high—when credit is expanding a lot faster than the economy. That is when you should watch out. Layne: What can we learn from these patterns now? Greenwood: I think the Fed is doing a great job. Many people... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
organizational marketing. Understanding Cross-sector Collaboration My field-based research on collaborations between businesses and nonprofits, encompassing a wide range of industries and social sectors, revealed a distinctive pattern in... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
“waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
been very successful at the retention of foreign-born, Ph.D.-level scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs. As China and India continue to develop, they will become more attractive places to live and to start companies. The returnee View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
cultural background, to help families start new lives safely. AI significantly improves matches Algorithms seek to streamline that work. Paulson and Bansak analyzed patterns in two countries that accept humanitarian immigrants:... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne