Border Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

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