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2012
Discussion Paper

Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore

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26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Industries, which focuses entirely on the media and entertainment sector, and which includes sessions on basketball star LeBron James, online video aggregator Hulu, the NFL, and the Metropolitan Opera, among other cases. The first part of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

Author's note: Over the past few weeks, I have been asking CEOs attending programs I teach at Harvard Business School a simple question: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? They've mentioned numerous complicated challenges that I have View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

Web

Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

identity; to process payments, subscriptions, credits and refunds; and to collect amounts owed, as applicable. To perform research (such as academic research). To assess admissions criteria and analyze individual and aggregate progress,... View Details

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

crypto platforms; there aren’t standardized disclosure rules or formats. And it’s two layers of non-transparency: You both don’t necessarily have a clear sense of what platforms may be doing, and then on top of that, a consumer might not understand the View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Foreign investment introduced capital and provided jobs for people previously occupied in agriculture. At an aggregate level, capital intensity rose, productivity grew, and prosperity improved, and poverty levels dropped dramatically.... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

emerged and competed with one another in the early decades of university business education. The first was a simple aggregation of courses taught elsewhere in the university and covering such obviously useful (if intellectually... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

Web

Industry Information - Alumni

for every state in the US + – Consulting Top-Consultant.com An aggregate of all the most recent news in the consulting industry. Consulting The primary news publication for the consulting profession featuring the latest information on... View Details

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

products; however, an MSP model is more cost-effective if a business is built on sales of low-demand items. Resellers have a greater ability to aggregate their bargaining power, bundle, and otherwise benefit from complementary products... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

their counterparts at International. Wal-Mart also tries to aggregate across national boundaries with its IT platform and regional management teams that were created in 2004 to manage global brand development and oversee government and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

aggregate stock market performance. "What this study tell us is that contrary to the claims made in the press that the big auditors are too big or too few to fail, there is evidence of the audit firms becoming more concerned about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

were even starker than the previous experiment. On a scale of 1 to 7, participants ranked busy Daniel more than twice as high on an aggregate measure of wealth and social status as they ranked leisurely Daniel, 5.44 to 2.55. They also... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

our sample affects, on average, 40 facilities. If you aggregate the penalty effect across these 40 facilities, that’s a $1.2 million increase in penalties over three years,” he adds. It also doesn’t include private companies, which can... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

firm, Blackstone, we are focused on creating economic growth by confronting climate change over this critical decade. We’ve committed to a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 15 percent in aggregate for all new investments where we... View Details

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Harvard Business School

bond transactions totaling more than $415 billion and has executed derivative transactions with an aggregate notional amount of more than $30 billion. He was named among 2011's “Top Blacks on Wall Street” by Black Enterprise magazine and... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

information, such as by aggregating and analyzing publicly available data. Second, once the platform identifies its different sides, it can offer a service that helps attract members to the platform. And third, platforms may contradict... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Research Summary

The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

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Company or Industry News

Where do I find current news about a company or industry? The following databases aggregate articles from news and trade publications and can be used to search for news on companies and industries. ABI/ProQuest: contains full-text... View Details

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Companies: small or private

Limited information about some private and/or small companies may be found in Orbis, Capital IQ, FactSet, and Lexis/Nexis. Most of these are aggregators of... View Details

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News by country

How can I find today's news by country? Factiva: aggregates news from thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts. Go to News Pages then choose country from drop down menu. the default is... View Details

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