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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

remain low. The meager job creation that has occurred in the last two decades has been overwhelmingly in local industries, not those facing international competition. Labor force View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

trust. “The aspect of a contract that hurts the building of trust is its binding nature. When I know that you are forced to cooperate, it takes away all of the risk. If I leave some element of risk in, by using a contract that isn’t... View Details

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

01 Dec 2010
News

Make or Break

BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Feb 2002
News

Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future

Building on the success of last year's inaugural conference, the HBS European Club hosted the second annual Europe Business Conference on the HBS campus November 2-3. The event included some 50 panelists and speakers and drew over 350 View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk

Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. Over the coming months, Porter, Rivkin, and a number of HBS faculty involved with the project will participate in a series of alumni events across the country designed to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2000
News

Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future

"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred organizations around the world View Details

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

state and local governments, balanced budget requirements force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Most states are required by law to carry balanced budgets and can only borrow to fund capital projects, such... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

27 Sep 2019

Military Visit Day

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA), this event is designed for prospective applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, View Details

28 Sep 2018

Military Prospective Student Visit Day

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA), this event is designed for prospective applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, View Details

29 May 2019
News

Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government

through philanthropy will open up new opportunities for your career.” Bloomberg also advised graduates not to undervalue their labor force (should they end up in an executive position) and to never... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2010
News

A Day’s Pay

FLOREZ: Back to his roots. Before term limits force him out of office, California State Senate majority leader Dean Florez (MBA ’93) has one final bill he wants to get through the legislature: extending overtime benefits to hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: overtime pay; Crop Production; Agriculture

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he later joined View Details

Portrait Project

Linda Li

My mom, a former banker, had started waiting tables to earn minimum wage. They believed that America embraces individuality and rewards effort, so they told me to study hard and dream big. Our labor gradually bore fruit as my family... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

has held that sheer corporate size could ensure industry dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit “blind spot.” While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota “strives to use its View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2003
News

Flex Time

(MBA 1976) of Extrusion Technology agrees. “I enjoy creating an environment that allows our employees to learn and change,” he says. “The labor force we hire from is generally less skilled, and we’re able to... View Details