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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
lines of American historiography, between Southern and Northern history. The effect is to restore the centrality of violence and coercion to the history of capitalism while problematizing both liberal and Marxist understandings of... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “There is a demand shock from consumers buying less, and a supply chain disruption in addition to the tariffs, which only makes things worse.” Cavallo presents the findings in a paper, Tariff Passthrough... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Centers The globalization of business has long encouraged Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty to research international business practices and the effects of globalization. Seminal contributions - Christopher Bartlett on managing across... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry Kissinger, who commented recently to Bloomberg News... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
lending/borrowing operations create demand for currency hedges. A tightening of domestic monetary policy may drive a bank to lend more in a foreign currency by its effect on the these currency hedges. Falk and Victoria show evidence... View Details
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The Gift of Global Talent
Bill argues, is the world’s most precious resource. Featured Article Navigating Talent Hotspots William R. Kerr SEP-OCT 2018 | HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW How can companies most effectively harness the benefits of these urban pools of... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Countries Beyond a Country's Borders Featured Exercises Unidentified Countries Exercise (Measuring and Interpreting Economic Indicators) 6-8 hrs Module 2 Economic Conditions and Your Business Understand the View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gone on for decades as a giant skimming effect that benefits the US while reducing the talent pool of countries offering the least opportunity. Few groups have been as maligned or as poorly portrayed as our immigrant pool. This has been... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
disparity in the wealth of nations, in spite of the fact that technology adoption lags have shortened dramatically in the past few decades. In their paper An Exploration of Technology Diffusion, Comin and fellow researcher Bart Hobijn described a scientific model to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
remains a significant amount of empirical evidence that trade remains much stronger within countries than across borders (Mayer/Zignago, 2005), even when traditional tariff and non-tariff-barriers have been removed like in the EU's... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
constraining, it can move to another one. So while there are few effective transnational governmental bodies, there are very effective transnational corporations. With that power comes a huge responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Barnes & Noble took over B. Dalton, and Borders came to run Waldenbooks. With the fall of the mall chain and the rise of the superstore, analysts announced the death of the independent bookstore for a second time. Hollywood even wrote a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
president of strategy and new business development for books and entertainment retailer Borders Group (Ann Arbor, Mich.). "There's not as much slack as there once was." "Slack" in the supply chain refers primarily to... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Jodi L. Short, "Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions" ( Organization Science , July–August 2019). Roberto Verganti : Awarded Best Conference Paper at the VII EurOMA Conference on “Crossing View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
interplay of these emotions and inter-individual attention differences at each point in time during exposure. Surprise and joy effectively concentrate attention and retain viewers. But importantly, the level rather than the velocity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
magazine's offices on his way to a job interview at Dartmouth College. As a result of that meeting, and subsequent introductions, Levitt found a home in the Marketing area at HBS. "That sequence of events had a powerful effect on... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
Border Force, which is the operational arm of the department. We deliver intelligence that enables our operations to be more effective to identify threats further upstream before they arrive at our borders.... View Details