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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
resulting contract disputes were not supposed to happen. The 1980s saw the growth of protections for foreign investors. Official insurance agencies, such as the U.S.'s OPIC, provided political risk coverage that would reimburse investors... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
approaches is often flawed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52604 Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times By: Aghion, Philippe, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
state, and was a key employer and tax payer in a country that was undergoing major structural change. Under OMV and CEO Mariana Gheorghe's leadership, OMV Petrom saw its net profit and sales almost double since 2005, while headcount was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in global teams. Faultlines, formed along the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
possess a basic understanding of capital markets, portfolio theory, and risk and return. 6-7 hrs Module 1 Private Equity Learn what private equity is and its different segments: growth equity, buyouts, and venture capital. Explore the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
with customers. Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car? Car-buying sends shivers up the backbones of American consumers, so why hasn’t the industry stepped up to create a better experience? Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures... View Details
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Events - Business History
regimes in developing Asia: Indonesia under Suharto's New Order, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, and China under the Chinese Communist Party." It shows how "all three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
differentiation in the marketplace,” said Pascal. “There’s been a lot of capacity and many businesses hanging around for the last decade that probably shouldn’t have survived.” The elimination of excess capacity could improve View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
ApnaKlub—which leases warehouse space and trucks—sources the requested products from brand-name manufacturers and distributes them to the wholesalers, who deliver within a reliable time frame. “We leverage technology to bring our customers supply consistency, better... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
West Coast headed to eastern ports, with a smaller flow of manufactured goods and agricultural products headed the other way. The canal supercharged the growth of the West Coast (at the expense of Venezuela in oil and the South in timber)... View Details
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
long-term prominence of firms headquartered in Denmark, the more fluctuating role of U.S.-based firms, and the more recent growth of German, Spanish, Indian, and Chinese firms. While natural resource endowment in wind has not been very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase, with a focus on organizations serving communities of color. The Forum provides training, classroom discussion, and peer support... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
intersperses longer-form algorithmic picks with its new YouTube Shorts. TikTok presents only short-form video, one at a time. The difference may seem slight, but it is not. YouTube is a general-purpose video tool, while TikTok optimizes for addictive engagement. TikTok... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
near future. One other surprising finding is that Bezos does not appear to have any patents obviously related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), a business line that analysts we talked to agreed has largely contributed to Amazon’s overall View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
created audiovisual and written content on gender, media, and development for non-profit and corporate clients. In 2021, the organization launched Chambal Academy, an online journalism course for rural women. Despite these various ventures, the company was yet to find... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
average, for more than 10 percent of the meteoric growth in inequality in the last 20 years. Wages remain static despite tax cuts Wage data gleaned from their research shows marked differences for those making less than $200,000 and those... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
advantage in the form of improved profitability by aggressively hiring the excluded group, namely women, in the local managerial labor market. Our results are economically meaningful and realistic in size, in addition to being robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
Magazine, “Sales Managers Must Manage” “A micromanager’s growth is bounded by what they can personally get involved in,” Cespedes says. “Managing is about leveraging not only what you do, but how you get other people to do things. If you... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman