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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

medications, marketing the selling capabilities in the face of falling revenues and an imminent workforce reduction. Rather than downsize the organization quickly to save costs, Wyss and his team took a different approach. They told the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018

of applicants, regardless of their country of origin or their financial resources, is a longstanding commitment of the School. The prospect of entering or returning to the workforce with high levels of education debt can deter strong MBA... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

Making education at HBS affordable to a broad cross section of applicants, regardless of their country of origin or their financial resources, is a longstanding goal of the School. The prospect of entering or returning to the workforce... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Chad Sparber looked at changes in applications to U.S. colleges before and after the reduction in the annual quota of H-1B visas that took effect in 2003. (The H-1B visa is the United States’ largest visa for skilled temporary work.) Even... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets. Following a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

debts, substantial store closures and workforce reductions, and sufficient new private equity capital to help reposition and revitalize Daiei's retail operations. Overcoming these hurdles in a large and visible company like Daiei would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

419-039 Note on Managing Workforce Reductions Each individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Next, I show that large employers are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are headquartered in politically important states. I also find that firms that employ a larger proportion of a congressional district's total... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

management; 97 percent of its workforce is Afghan. “It wouldn’t surprise me if in the next 5 or 10 years you saw an Afghan CEO or COO of Roshan,” he adds. Roshan’s franchise model extends the number of jobs it generates; in addition,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna