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  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

with formidable challenges. In addition to deciding how many employees should be laid off, management must decide which employees to target (e.g., white collar vs. factory workers, domestic vs. foreign employees, etc.) and set a timetable... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Themes: Measuring Sentiment & Expectations More Info Monetary Policy and Global Banking By: Falk Bräuning & Victoria Ivashina JUN 2016 | BFFS WP #004 Global banks primarily receive funding in their domestic currencies, but operate and View Details
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

III, became a journalist after graduating from HBS, working as a reporter with the Washington Post. He was a staff member at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research when he died in 1962. The family’s connection to Harvard dates... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

head counsel of the French company as their foreign minister. (He was not Panamanian and in fact lived in New York.) The lawyer drafted a treaty that gave Panama a far lower share of the canal revenues than the United States could have... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

concern took its place as the fourth-largest investment bank in the country. [13] Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. expanded its global financial markets, opening offices in Europe and Asia and serving in a financial advisory capacity in... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

management , supply chain , supply chain management Interviews Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Meg Rithmire James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : economic development , economic institutions , emerging markets , View Details
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to consolidate its global position by acquiring several View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Investment By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

Accounting Review Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting By: Srinivasan, Suraj, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Discussion Paper

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

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
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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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

scale, and achieve meaningful progress on climate solutions . Through expert panels, case discussions, and networking, participants considered the role of the firm, individual business leaders, and HBS, as well as new business and View Details
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world witnessed an explosion in capital flows at the global level. Gross View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

fund operational businesses across all sectors. Consulting, research, and/or brokerage services, as well as investment funds (including but not limited to hedge funds, private equity funds, search funds, and venture capital funds) are... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

backlash from sectors exposed to increasing foreign competition. Here, too, pressure has been rising but so far there is "no significant intensification of trade or investment restrictions"... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne