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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
extreme vetting may be even better. But banning everyone from a few poor Muslim countries is not vetting at all. Since the 9/11 terrorists came mostly from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, this executive order would have missed the biggest... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
and translated this insight into a sustained political and publishing campaign to ensure that the English and later the British Empire would consist of an industrializing core and a periphery producing and providing raw materials. He... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
something might be done to foster the creation of wealth (and jobs) in Mexico through the removal of structural barriers that inhibit entrepreneurial behavior. However, before action might be taken to correct the problems created by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about affirmative View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
across the country. Urban Adaptation & Mumbai’s Climate Action Plan By 2030, India is expected to be the third largest economy in the world with a GDP of almost $8.5 trillion. Historically, countries have relied on emissions intensive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
the most experienced voices at HBS—Bill George, Krishna Palepu, Rakesh Khurana, and Lorsch himself—to address the challenges of governance and the role of corporate boards in wrestling with critical issues like CEO performance and succession, compensation, and... View Details
- Web
Best Practices | Information Technology
Best Practices Help keep information and devices more secure. We all wear seatbelts in cars, wash our hands before leaving the bathroom or preparing food, and lock the doors to our homes when we leave. These are simple actions which keep... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
When the FTC announced in July a $5 billion penalty and other actions against the company over privacy disgressions, the Federal Trade Commission said it well: “ through at least June 2018, Facebook subverted users’ privacy choices to... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
Summing Up Are Education And Mobility The Keys To Reaching The Right Amount Of Inequality? Questions about the right amount of inequality provoked thoughtful comment this month about the nature of the question, definitions, measures, and appropriate View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
competition for collusion because they don't understand the complexities and nuances of this business. Unfortunate History Unfortunately, the history of antitrust enforcement is littered with examples of government actions that, however... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political economy. Vietor has taught at... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Portrait Project
Kaelin Goulet
moment of extreme income inequality, when the "have-nots" suffered disproportionately because of the actions of the "haves." Maybe it was working to develop savings instruments for... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
by companies to reduce the threat of politically slanted negative press, focusing on FNC and the 2000 presidential election. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational costs for firms" The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
for decision-making and leadership, in these overlapping public-private realms.” Speaking at luncheon, on the opening day of the conference, Haass, a former State Department official, posited three possible scenarios for the world’s future. At one View Details
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Vincent Pons | Working Knowledge
Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Vincent Pons's research examines the foundations of democracy: how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved. He decomposes the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
oft-discussed issue of temporal shortsightedness—the very human tendency to focus on present-day concerns without considering how our actions will affect the future. But there's also ideological myopia—a failure to realize that... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
economic interdependence is the primary motivation for insecurity and policy actions to manage competition with China. In work I coauthored with Margaret Pearson of the University of Maryland and Kellee Tsai of Northeastern University, we... View Details