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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

headquarters are large (255 median staff for a 20,000 FTE MNC) and European headquarters smaller (124). Implications are drawn that countries will lose activities if domestic firms are acquired by foreign MNCs, and that MNCs need to allow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society

families face barriers beyond their control, preventing them from improving their circumstances. Government policies to address these inequalities have varied widely, from Chile’s Chicago School model to Venezuela’s socialism, but none... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

  Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Letters to the Editor

States needs to remain an attractive destination for foreign investment. Right now the US corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world. Do we have to make the same mistake with respect to capital gains? Third, using the notion of... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

considered exemplary policies and practices by government. By looking more closely, however, Porter, Takeuchi, and Sakakibara also began to discover what they call "another Japan." While the country did boast a number of strong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2003 (Revised July 2003)
  • Teaching Note

Singapore Inc. (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for (9-703-040). View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Taxation; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Foreign Direct Investment; Policy; Organizational Culture; Saving; Performance Productivity; Balance and Stability; China; Singapore
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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

rendered uneconomic by high Israeli costs. At the same time, Israeli firms in industries that have been local, such as most services, can use alliances to begin trade and foreign investment. Any loss of lower-wage job opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

reversal of the state's policy towards private business from late 1978, and has grown rapidly since. While insurance as a concept and product has been a big success in post-reform China, the growth of the industry has created strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2019
  • News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

will be a natural counterbalance to the slowdown in industry. Second, China is in good shape from a fiscal standpoint. They have a budget deficit target of 2.3 percent this year, but are currently in surplus. Third, they still have enormous View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

late 1940s is unraveling, and Murphy thinks the American foreign policy and defense establishment is directly culpable for what has happened. MetaWars: The Freedom Frontier by Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) (Orchard... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing orthodoxy had been determined in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf   PublicationsInstitutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry