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- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
economy, must be leery of rescuing Wild West investor/risk-takers. As this empire crumbles, the people at the base—the waitress in Detroit, the laborer in Sacramento, the daycare worker in Boston—will lose not just the dream and security... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
data, the project also convenes researchers, policymakers, and financial executives to exchange ideas with BFFS faculty. The goal is to empower the project’s research to have broad real-world impact, sharing knowledge that could help prevent another View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanzcuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a... View Details
Keywords: Heterogeneous Plants; Productivity; Policy Distortions; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation; Macroeconomics
Alfaro, Laura, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk. "Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-086, May 2007. (Revised May 2008, August 2008. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14060, June 2008)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
the scope of the economic emergency. For a related research paper he was coauthoring with Ben Iverson of Brigham Young University and David Thesmar of MIT, Greenwood marshaled a unique array of data—including airline ticket sales and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details
- Web
Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Managing International Trade and Investment Course Number 1166 Professor Meg Rithmire Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Course Overview The course approaches economic interdependence from the perspective of... View Details
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details
- 2014
- Teaching Note
Fine Harvest Restaurant Group
By: Clara X. Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
countries closed their borders. Diagne’s first task was to work closely with the ministry’s leadership team in crafting an economic response to the pandemic. Worldwide, crisis management involved very similar challenges—layoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- Web
Collection Highlights | Baker Library
Company Records Administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813. Alfred D. Chandler Papers Professor Alfred Chandler... View Details
- 2022
- Article
‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The Closure of the Swiss Firestone Factory in 1978
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focusses on the closure of the Firestone’s Swiss subsidiary in 1978. It contributes to the existing literature dealing with the ‘nationality’ of multinational companies and the impact of U.S. management style on local capitalist systems. Drawing on a... View Details
Keywords: Americanization; Capitalism; Corporate Nationality; Industrial Relations; Multinational; Narratives; Multinational Firms and Management; Nationality; Economic Systems; Labor and Management Relations; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The Closure of the Swiss Firestone Factory in 1978." Special Issue on International Business, Multi-Nationals, and the Nationality of the Company. Business History 64, no. 9 (2022): 1648–1665.
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
entrepreneurship in China? A: Our interviews in Beijing and Shanghai emphasized that China is not for everybody. Even though the country generates a lot of excitement, offers a huge consumer market, and retains a lower-cost but very well-educated View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global consultancy. A recent study published by the National Bureau of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
their choice of industry and function. It's a tough year - you can't dress it up." Industries that have been hit hardest by the economic downturn include consulting and investment banking, two areas that traditionally hire a significant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
they’re keen to give back. The vast majority of them are seen as statesmen and stateswomen who have contributed to the building blocks of their particular society, both commercial successes and significant not-for-profit entrepreneurs. I did a year in the MBA program... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
their careers. “For us, the answer was partly ‘let’s build something that’s different than what you see out there, and let’s build a firm that can succeed.’ So, that’s what we’ve done with Avance,” says Perez, the firm’s managing partner. FINANCE AND THE View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
foreign direct investment and the impact of investment on human rights and labor standards. Spar is the author of The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of International Cartels and coauthor of Beyond Globalism: Remaking American... View Details