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  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

simply a bilateral matter. First, a need to secure construction permits in multiple jurisdictions around the Baltic Sea involved other countries. And second, Germany's membership in the European Union entailed compliance with goals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

away from petty, small disputes and think about embracing the broad idea of Europe writ large. That would help in the search for a sustainable solution to this agonizing, destabilizing, and never-ending Greek crisis. While notable institutional progress toward the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

countries in the European Union explicitly reference financial accounting treatments in several parts of the tax treatment of corporations. Indeed, the European Union is contemplating yet a more aggressive... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

case has been interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln's president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to eating in a company cafeteria. A View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Technical Note

A Note on Compensation

By: Ethan Bernstein and Michael Norris
This note provides an overview of the important terms, concepts, and frameworks that a manager should know about compensation—whether it be their own or that of an employee. Because compensation in practice is fraught with pitfalls, this note presents an overview of... View Details
Keywords: Compensation Design; Benefits; Perks; Variable Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Profit Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Labor Unions; Wages; United States
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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55025 UK Competitiveness after Brexit By: Ketels, Christian, and Michael E. Porter Abstract—On June 23, 2016, 52% of UK voters opted to put their country on the path to leave the European... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

management. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-099.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsRussia: Revolution and Reform Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-030 The collapse of central authority in the Soviet View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of 2008 also forced the Icelandic people to confront a decision: would joining the European Union (EU) protect Iceland from capricious swings in investor sentiment? What, if anything,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Lina Khan at the FTC: Redefining Antitrust in the Age of Big Tech

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Pinckney
In 2023 and 2024, the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice sued Google, Amazon, and Apple claiming antitrust violations. These lawsuits marked a shift in U.S. antitrust enforcement away from the Chicago School and towards the New Brandeis school of... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Monopoly; Technology Industry; United States; European Union; China; India
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  • October 2020
  • Case

Fiscal Responses to COVID-19

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons and Galit Goldstein
For the first half of 2020, the COVID-19 crisis seemed on the verge of spiraling out of control. The business world struggled to figure out what COVID meant for macroeconomics. Extended restrictions limiting human interaction meant an end to normal economic production,... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Policy; COVID; COVID-19; Economic Analysis; Economic Downturn; Economic Conditions; Economic Governance; Economic Systems; Economy; Health Pandemics; Finance; Policy; United States; Germany; France; European Union
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  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

banking and would result in the 10th-largest bank in the world. Discusses the main sources of value creation from international expansion and acquisitions in the commercial banking industry. Also, highlights the barriers to integration within the single market of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

http://hbr.org/product/cancer-screening-in-japan-market-research-and-segmentation/an/514057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-034 Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety in Bangladesh (A) On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in Dhaka, the capital of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

"over 20% in Germany and at good wages." Peter Sebregondi said that "the German government, companies and unions TOGETHER have defended the German Industrial Commons" in response to pressure from globalization and EU... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

shift too much power to unions and special interest groups, and that highly experienced directors might not want to serve on a board if they had to work alongside shareholder-sponsored candidates. In addition, shareholders would be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

On February 14, US Airways and American Airlines put their names on a valentine to each other as they announced an $11 billion merger, a union that created the largest airline in the United States. For American, it was one more step in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

remain attractive to doctors, insurance providers, and individual patients? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 906-408 Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in the European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

early 1990s, many countries in the former Eastern Bloc went through breakthrough reforms, remarkable economic growth, and increasing macroeconomic stability. Further, many of the countries joined the European Union and hence took part of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2013
  • Supplement

Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)

By: James K. Sebenius
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
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  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she didn’t participate in issues considered maternal or those... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

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