Corporate Nationality - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

structures of large manufacturing corporations remains important, but a new generation of researchers has explored business networks, the family firm, knowledge creation and transfer, public policy and business, and a host of other... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

11 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

becoming "stateless." Robert Reich among others suggested that historically the nationality of multinationals was clear, while for contemporary multinationals corporate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

that, according to an estimate by the American Enterprise Institute, economies of countries with authoritarian regimes have grown faster over the past ten years than economies of the most politically free countries? Whatever happened to the fears just a few short years... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership affects View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

help in various studies of corruption. The private sector has not always been keen to "rock the boat," she said, adding that the OECD has adopted a convention that makes it a criminal offense for a corporation to bribe a public... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms of the number of female executives and how much money they make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp Abstract—Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally available weight management... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

studied the credit ratings industry in the wake of the financial crisis. In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics, he examined the role of competition between raters. One important distinction, in his view, is between View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence and improved leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

respondents. Joseph Butler suggests that "It is the responsibility of corporations and governments alike to share knowledge and to work to educate developing nations ... about consumption, pollution,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

discover how immigration law affects the number of such patents, and explain how, under certain conditions, patenting traditional medicine can mutually benefit both corporate firms and indigenous communities. Where's The Proof? The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

twentieth century and its effect on American life. How did we become a nation of "organization men" in the 1950s, to take a term from William H. Whyte? How did that change pathways to success and ideas about citizenship? How did other... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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