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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
how to gauge the quality of an audit, or how to find factories with better performance records before spending millions of dollars in a country. On the other hand, if companies are committed to staying with their suppliers and helping... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that boards and executives quickly find ways around, with the assistance of lawyers, accountants, lobbyists, and bankers. Billions of shareholders’ dollars are spent to forestall or circumvent more effective reforms. Even worse, people... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
national interest was still going strong—but it was losing millions of dollars a year. Something had to change. Bradley, a slim, silver-haired man in his early 50s, spoke clearly but softly—a viral infection had damaged his vocal cords... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tariffs for dumping cheap sets in the U.S. market. The U.S. government also curtailed Chinese textile imports on grounds that their rapid increase constituted a “surge.” Critics blame the import flood on the undervalued Chinese yuan, pegged at 8.27 to the View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
became robust again during the '80s — reported losses approaching half a billion dollars between 1990 and 1994. But that tide is changing, says BC's amiable chairman George Harad, who became CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1995. Harad has... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
a clearer set of political guidelines today—certainly with Biden as president—than you've had in the past. And three, I think the younger generation just demands it. So you have a generation of people who... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
search for mineable asteroids. While their first few spacecraft will be used to test these capabilities, they will also observe Earth and collect data—ranging from oil and gas exploration to crop growth—to be sold to industry, academia, and the government, View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
There is something in the human soul that yearns to get away from it all, to some unspoiled paradise by the sea, lulled by gentle breezes. And those dreams of golden days and starlit nights translate into a startling, cold-cash reality: Tourism View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
chapters provide in-depth analyses of representative companies and the remarkable people who led them. These firms include Google, eBay, Amazon.com, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Boeing, General Motors, and Ford—all of which began as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the scope of work is so broad that the possibility of cross-infection is monumental. If you go into a general hospital, there's no way they can keep those walls and floors clean and free from all bacteria. Plus, the people who work in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1 p.m. tour, including the new... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
tax per dollar of pre-tax income than non-PE backed firms, after controlling for NOLs and debt tax shields. We find additional tax savings for PE-backed portfolio firms that are either majority-owned or owned by large PE firms, consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
resources are stretched very thin, we've had to become very entrepreneurial," Britt explains. "To generate income we license toy companies, retailers, and park operators to use our Sesame Street characters, and we publish are own... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry