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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
Health Organization recommendations when the crisis was still far away. The protocols were ready within two weeks. By mid-March, the implementation was monitored on a daily basis by a crisis committee. Key learnings We can derive three broad ideas related to learning... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
And they talked to their legislators. We got the law!” The California Fair Trade Act of 1931 allowed for price protections through contracts between local producers and local distributors. It mimicked national proposals that exempted fair... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
self-inflicted wounds, says Porter. While part of the argument for leaving has been that the UK can negotiate better free trade agreements on its own, the reality, says Porter,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
the World Trade Organization. C. J. Cullinane comments, "We need ... global guidelines and regulations as well as transparency." Jacoline Loewen, concurs, saying that "there may not be global rules for State Capitalism yet,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Free Trade Agreement, went about securing buy-in: "News might arrive that a representative who had been leaning toward yes had come out as a no…. When he heard the bad news, [Daley went into... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the conditions that enable moral insight and important practical implications. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54871 Harvard Business School Case 318-143 Renegotiating NAFTA January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
ambition of Uribe or his possible like-minded successor was to secure U.S. Congressional approval of a free trade agreement signed in 2006. But would it really help Colombia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
anything to learn from Europe? What do you think? Original Article In this forum 15 years ago we discussed the question of the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
tariff reduction, and an increase in the extent to which the sales of affiliates in reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Started in June 2013, TTIP negotiations had gone on much longer than anyone had expected. With elections coming on both sides of the Atlantic and a rising opposition in public opinion, what were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
property access, which then lead to the creation of private property rights because that's the only way of solving the problem," he said. Solving the problem by treating water like any other commodity sparked lively discussion. “If the world View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
impact of stronger intellectual property rights was reaching a boiling point as the World Trade Organization included the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in its charter.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
South or as the only stop-gap preventing a breakdown in the international system. This article analyzes how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of free trade in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
mean nothing. In the book we talk a great deal about how Rob, Shelby, and Donna have used these techniques to beat much larger players in their business." The business environment has changed completely, since the capital markets no... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner