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15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that legal foundations exist for directors to indeed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

issues regarding tax harmonization within Europe and the integration process. Q: Could the flat tax only have been introduced in the context of other reforms that Slovakia was managing during its post-communism transition, such as View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2014
News

Research Brief: Capitol Gains

issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. "It might seem obvious that legislation that either supports or challenges an industry would have predictable financial fallout for a state's firms engaged in that industry," says Cohen. "But... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks and... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

January 2004
Article

Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn

We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry

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01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

Watford City, and Belfield had completely overbuilt—dug basins for homes that were never occupied, added on to schools with bond issues that were painful. So part of the rub today is that a lot of the locals—presidents of the banks, the... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

22 Mar 2021
News

Searching for Purpose

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

and to Tactics Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart Publication:Special Issue on Business Models. Long Range Planning (forthcoming) Abstract The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

for example? Are they talking about labor practices? Are they talking about cost? What are the issues on their minds? You can even use that minute-by-minute information to create a dynamic map. The caveat is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Jul 2011
News

China Boot Camp

itinerary of meetings with policymakers and senior executives of major consumer products, textile, software, energy, microfinance, and banking concerns. The trip offered an intense introduction to the overall issues facing China as well... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 2009
Article

FDI, Productivity, and Financial Development

By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth by focusing on the complementarities between FDI inflows and financial markets. In our earlier work, we found that FDI is beneficial for growth only if the host country has well-developed... View Details

Keywords: Human Capital; Income; Performance Productivity; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Institutions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

Shih: I think it becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

24 Oct 2018
News

Exploring the Future of Work for Women

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of India recently hosted its first conference devoted to exploring gender issues in the workplace of the future. The Future of Work: Accelerating Gender Parity Conference, held on September 21 in Mumbai,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

10 Jul 2000
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Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

its restrictions on the carriage of distant signals into the top 100 markets. After much debate, in 1972 the FCC issued standards for the number of broadcast station signals that should be available in a community. Cable operators were... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

trading." Fighting is another (perhaps too) familiar negotiation improvisation. In these negotiations, the goal is to beat up on the other party, even if it means that you get hurt, too. Parties in labor contract negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

contribute to citations listed in issued patents—and that this could complicate interpretation of findings in this literature. In 2001 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began reporting examiner and applicant citations... View Details