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20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world witnessed an explosion in capital flows at the global level. Gross foreign assets and liabilities... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

resources they need. Getting those resources will help the entrepreneur build a more valuable company. However, getting those resources is far from a free lunch. To get co-founders, investors, hires, and others to come on board and View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

views of how foreign direct investment works. "I think a glimpse into private sector flows has shown that our conventional wisdom might not always align with the reality on the ground," he says. He chose to write on foreign investments in South Africa to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

They also suggest that it is important to let people be authentic (i.e., themselves), foster career sponsorship, provide visibility for everyone, and define clear career paths for those who might otherwise get lost in the organization. To... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

investing clubs can be incredibly valuable," he says, recommending that investors find a group of 10 to 15 people who can share information and provide feedback on their trades. "The group decision will surely be better than any... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

don't know we have can be exciting, efficient, and energizing. Or it can be fearsome, enervating, and subject to mistakes ranging from foolish to fatal. That's the sense provided by responses to this month's column. There was enthusiasm... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

location. Buell and Norton found that when shown the second version of the website, users were much more impressed with the work that government was doing—and much more favorable about the efficacy of government overall. "There's a big difference between View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

investors-problems that may otherwise persist for many years." The questions this raises are: Just what solutions address Shiller's concerns? How can they be achieved? Can businesses, for example, be provided with incentives to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

state's sovereign fund investors) when his competitor is able to arrange to have state aid or investment provided or withheld in large quantities to a potential customer's country of origin depending on whether that customer favors a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

and scientists has caused the extended social networks of inventors to become increasingly connected. As a result, invention increasingly occurs within small worlds (or social networks) that straddle firm boundaries. Small worlds provide... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

through a pretty harrowing experience. —Joshua Coval "We almost didn't run the first simulation because we figured everyone would easily see ahead to what would happen and that there'd be no trading at all," says Coval. "Anyone who purchased the right to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of trusted appointees (known internally as the "Dutch Mafia"), whose understanding of Philips technology, commercial objectives, and overall strategy provided the major link between the parent company and its dispersed national... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

demonstration reactor test sites, and facilitating commercial power purchase agreements. But private investors—not the world’s taxpayers—need to provide the capital, face the risks, and reap the rewards of proving that new nuclear power... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

on this question. The first section provides background on MNCs and their rise. Section two summarizes attempts to promulgate global standards for MNCs in relation to human rights, labour, bribery, and the natural environment. Section... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG]) information, including data produced by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), is growing. Using data from Bloomberg we analyze this interest from a variety of different perspectives, and in doing so are able to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

Against this backdrop, a number of schools concluded that business as usual was bad for business education, and they plunged into self-examination projects. Yale and Stanford, among others, recently redesigned their MBA programs, and their efforts View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

incurs higher costs due to laboratory monitoring and provider time than NOACs. NOAC treatment, therefore, may not be more expensive than warfarin therapy management for complex anticoagulation patients. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

countries and industries in systematic ways. Q3: What’s the message here for political or business leaders who are trying to get their arms around these issues? Zhang: For business leaders, this paper provides some preliminary evidence... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

stakes and provides that much more basis for others to be interested. Banning recordings portends a dangerous tension with customers. If a customer thinks there’s something wrong, and feels strongly enough to make a recording and perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

some become more successful—but led others down the wrong path, says Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. How much strategic insight and profit boost AI can View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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