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24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

says. When the economy recovers, people tend to move on. “If heads of state could learn from history, then it should be pretty easy for us not to have any wars,” he says. “But wars are rare enough that we’re able to blunder into them... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial controls than on coordination of technical or... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?

Exports from Vietnam to the United States have grown significantly since America’s trade war with China began in 2018. At the same time, Vietnam has been importing more Chinese goods. This has led many to question: is “Made in Vietnam”... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Lemmens and Sunil Gupta provides a novel method for determining which customers to target in order to maximize the profit of a retention campaign. The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

during tumultuous change—the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Civil War in the United States—yet accomplished an enormous amount during this time of ferment: for example, technology transfer to China, helping Chinese students in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

could finally afford to buy their domiciles. The definition of home shifted. A home became an anchor, a stake in the community. Veterans from World War II seized upon the FHA and VA mortgages to sink roots into the middle class; one... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

pessimist on the subject? Why? What’s your projection of US growth and prosperity? What do you think? Related Reading: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (New York: W. W.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In such businesses, price View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

instrumental variables approach exploiting an historical shift in innovation activity during World War II to show that this relationship could be causal. Finally, we document a U-shaped relationship between top income inequality and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

aftermath of World War II, government funding for scientific research increased and large corporations followed suit, with firms such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Ford establishing dedicated centralized science labs that put few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

trade war continues (TonyO), leadership or lack thereof (Harry White), actions by the current US administration to encourage firms to bring jobs home and promulgate “America first” policies (Todd Z.), reduced dependency on foreign oil,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

actually been marked by steady decreases in concentration since World War II. Executives, they write, "need to break free of the biases that lead them to pursue larger and larger cross-border deals. There are better, more profitable... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

reversal of European integration already underway. The EU was created by people who had seen World War II and never wanted to see Europeans go to war with one another again. In the years since the Treaty of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

challenge, and it was never intended to be used in indiscriminate antipersonnel warfare. The pathway of its development by a Harvard research scientist to its use in flamethrowers by U.S. ground troops in World War II, and as an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

the door, so to speak. There is not a huge amount in the book about political history, which is an integral part of business. World Wars I and II were enormously influential on the American economy, but they were not comprehensively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War... View Details