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  • 08 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

  • 2017
  • Working Paper

International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption, Chapter 41: The Internet’s Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
This chapter considers how digital culture has changed over the past decade, as the internet has grown its scope and user base. Billions around the world connect daily to an ever-expanding set of applications. A framework for thinking about digital effects is offered:... View Details
Keywords: Digital Culture; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Society
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  • November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
  • Case

China's Rural Leap Forward

By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
Collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) played a pivotal role in China's rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s. Although they originated in the policies and institutions of the Maoist era, TVEs thrived only after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Public Ownership; Development Economics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Macroeconomics; Emerging Markets; China
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  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to varying degrees, by View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

establishing some stylized facts about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2277795 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

  PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

drag on people’s finances, and several benefits would come from liberating people from these loans, he says. “People with a lot of student debt are more fragile and they postpone other life choices, like moving, buying a house, or getting... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

counterparts. The empirical evidence presented in the chapter demonstrates that diversified business groups can add value in mature markets such as Britain. Even the much-criticized conglomerates of the 1970s-1990s were quite successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants’ age at arrival to the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51811 2016 Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

liberation of Paris. Anyone who opposed the policy of preemption was an appeaser. And so on. Yet throughout this period of heightened terrorist threats and overseas military interventions, financial markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

officer Ken Lay made him president of Enron's new trading operations. In 2001, Skilling was named CEO. Before 1997, Enron was an innovative and profitable player in the newly deregulated natural gas industry. Skilling's big idea was to create fluid and transparent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

effect should be scrutinized under deal protection doctrine, even if these agreements have a colorable business purpose as well. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51576 Emerging Markets and the Future of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

The 1950s onwards saw the beginning of the reconstruction of a new global economy. Between 1950 and 1973 the annual real GDP growth of developed market economies averaged around 5 percent. This growth was smooth, with none of the major... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

specialization, or firm prestige. We discuss the theoretical implications of these results for the literatures on status and groups, along with practical implications for strategic human resource management. The Flattening Firm and Product View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

overcome decades of TV footage of soldiers and tanks that linger in the mind. To Harvard Business School marketing professor Elie Ofek, it’s more proof that influencing long-held perceptions about a region requires more strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's only the present," Zobel observes. "I agree. It's View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

steam engine in the main hall not only piqued my interest in learning how these fantastic machines worked, but also in how they were designed with operational and market constraints in mind. Because of this, I came to see engineering as a... View Details