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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
much relational. In the United States, we have a more transactional focus. And we’ve had to learn that in China, they don’t care if you make money. You’re there because you’re bringing them technology, knowledge, or skills that will make... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of participants. Alongside foreign merchants and migrant planters, local... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
within the FBI and archival analysis of Congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, we trace how top management shifted the design and identity of the FBI from those of a law enforcement agency to those of a national View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of the world economy into recession. In the recent case "Kroll Bond Rating Agency," Bo... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
with the United Nations Development Programme. "Given my background, my numerous contacts in Africa, and the pervasive shortage of media/communications there," she notes in an interview at ACG's Cambridge,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
Broido Johnson (MBA 2002) This is a repost from Alumni Stories, see the original post here. We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Sub-Saharan Africa and Maghreb. “Often times you see these immigrants are not always completely integrated into society,” says Pons. “Objectively, they have lower salaries and lower education, but more subjectively, when you ask them about their sense of View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
and to try to protect children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. These initiatives form the cornerstone of UNICEF, founded by the UN in 1946 as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
something. There was very little interest, and it happened that a team in France contacted my partner at the time. We got a call. My partners Bob and Pat Kennedy had established the first basketball camps for girls and women in the United... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
nearly double that, $32.51. Objectively, that discrepancy makes little sense. "Those are the easiest people to recruit, since they are already Methodists," says Parsons. From the perspective of members of the congregation's View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
spread over 45 countries. Comcraft produces steel, plastics, and aluminum products. Chandaria had the option of taking well-paying jobs after his studies in the United States and India in 1951, but opted to take the risk of working in the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
associated with anti-dumping petitions among upstream companies. It also weakens downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne