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  • 06 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

final wave of migration after the Vietnam War in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Under the Amerasian Homecoming Act (AHA), some 25,000 children of Vietnamese mothers and US fathers stationed there during the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several large-scale projects that contributed to the growth and improvement of contemporary America, including the Hoover Dam, one of the wonders of the modern world. During World... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2011
  • Chapter

American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development

By: Rakesh Khurana
As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in America remains a unique institution. This holds true despite the fact that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Business History; Business Education; Power and Influence; Society; United States; Europe
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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 08 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
  • January 2008
  • Case

The Deutsche Bank (A)

By: David A. Moss
Founded in 1870 to help finance surging German exports and imports, the Deutsche Bank soon moved into domestic banking. In fact, its founders aimed to create both a commercial bank and an investment bank under one roof—that is, a "universal bank." By the end of the... View Details
Keywords: History; Investment Banking; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; Germany
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details
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    Birth of a Salesman

    This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details

    • March 2013
    • Article

    From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

    By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
    This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent... View Details
    Keywords: Professions; Disciplines; Neo-Liberalism; Education; Economics; Finance; Society; United States
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    • August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Grand Central Publishing

    By: Anita Elberse
    In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry
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    • 11 Jul 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

    evolved to the concept of the “customer experience,” essentially the ability to capture customer loyalty and promote evangelism by offering top-notch service and a delightful experience at every interaction, from browsing products on a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Equal Rights Amendment Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion Social discord continues over Vietnam War and civil rights Watergate scandal undermines faith in authority Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 19 Moral Majority "Me" generation Focus View Details
    • 02 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 2

    Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The History of Beauty

    daughters regarding the use of lipstick in America.21 By the end of the 1920s, three thousand different face powders and several hundred rouges alone were being sold on the American market.22 Hollywood was also playing a pivotal role.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 23 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    What Could Bring Globalization Down?

    cables to Germany, after war broke out in 1914. The Lusitania (which was sunk on May 7, 1915) is simply a good symbol for the end of this first age because so much had previously depended View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 18 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 18

    on sales that is positive for most brands. These results imply that brands seeking to attract multitaskers' attention and dollars must select their advertising copy carefully. Publisher's link: View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 2008
    • Article

    When Winning Is Everything

    By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
    In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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    • 19 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

    integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

    By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
    As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
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    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    [This is the fourth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams