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- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
presented. The Second World War as an Economic Disaster Author:Niall Ferguson Publication:In Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century, 83-132. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., 2007 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
and started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
attention to the importance of Chanel’s networks among the cultural elite and European high society. It explores how she embraced the rise of Anti-Semitism among many members View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Ashish Nanda Nanda: "How do firms compete with one another, not only in service offerings but also in the war for talent? "Most of my work has been focused on the USA, and I am keen to look at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
In light of the outset of the war on terrorism, how does this affect what has been called the war for talent? A book by the same name 1 has... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the company. Sales increased but losses skyrocketed. A&P lost the price war it started, proving only that it could give away the store. The most puzzling aspect of the price View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
Crises and International Business
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter uses the intellectual journey of the author to suggest that crises have been the norm rather than the exception in the history of international business. Over the last 100 years world wars, regional conflicts, the Great Depression, and decolonization are... View Details
Keywords: Crisis; Multinational Companies; International Business; Emerging Market; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; System Shocks; War; Emerging Markets; Crisis Management
Jones, Geoffrey. "Crises and International Business." Chap. 2 in International Business in Times of Crisis. Vol. 16, edited by Rob van Tulder, Alain Verbeke, Lucia Piscitello, and Jonas Puck, 27–32. Progress in International Business Research. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
War II and the relative decline in importance of internationally-focused business groups during the second half of the twentieth century. The chapter then discusses the rise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective, however, these deals are small... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
peterhowell Summing Up: Is the Current US Economic Expansion Primarily in the Hands of the Fed? New applications of technology and the expansion of the service economy may... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
world war in 1939, and then total defeat in 1945. At the end of WWII, the Soviets closed the Berlin headquarters of the Deutsche Bank as part of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace