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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
furniture design but in a warehouse, a fleet of trucks, and a staff of drivers—the type of capital-intensive vertical integration he planned for later on, after Gaia Design had established its reputation as a source for well-designed,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
political, as they faced widespread host government hostility and expropriation. In the contemporary global economy, political risk partially declined with the spread of liberalization, although the management of relations with host governments remained a challenge,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
one reason why communities outside the United States, Brown notes, have been more inclined than their American counterparts to outsource their local operations. Seeking new sources of supply, many coastal... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
the bright sociology major just out of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Frankenberg found an apartment and soon launched a business venture that would make her one of the most prominent expatriates in the country. "I saw the need for a reliable View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy literature. Cornell... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
combined with annual assessments on insurance providers, hospitals, and, indirectly, employers. Observes Pozen: “Any state thinking of following the Massachusetts model needs to have, as we did, a clear accounting system — remarkably, many states do not — that itemizes... View Details
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
Behind the success of every student’s experience in immersive project-based courses—from visas to travel advisories to detailed itineraries—is the Global Experience Office. Kate Mitkevicius has just arrived in Mumbai after an 18-hour journey from Boston. It’s midnight,... View Details
- 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
banks use their global balance sheets to respond to local monetary policy. However, sources and uses of funds are often denominated in different currencies. This leads to a foreign exchange (FX) exposure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
multifaceted and should be understood through diverse lenses. Over the past few years, the country has poured enormous resources towards diversifying sources of economic growth away from petrochemicals. Societal change has been rapid in... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
industry. Before RMI, I worked for a distributed generation developer that specializes in combined heat and power and ground source heat pumps where I was part of their analytics team, constructing renewables. How did you become... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
support functions. Rather than dictating the company-level measures down to the operating units, leaders encourage the operating units to define their own strategy—based on local market conditions, competition, operating technologies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
they used to be protected geographically, but no longer. For decades, a paper like the Post competed against a few local and even fewer national newspapers. (Despite its international reputation, the lion's share of its print revenues... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
that industry executives make regarding release strategies. Obviously, locally produced movies play a relevant role in foreign markets. For example, locally produced movies account for over a third of the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made opportunistic earnings management more challenging. Our evidence highlights a novel channel through which uncertainty affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
of his week are devoted to fundraising, "it never feels like enough." Education and Outreach Education is a central element in any museum's mission statement. How each museum chooses to fulfill its educational duty in terms of its local... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
of time. What are some of the challenges that come with conducting business on so many international fronts? Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand... View Details