Global Talent Flows - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2012
News

Fellowship Funder

School to help provide financial aid to a broad range of talented students who otherwise would be unable to attend HBS. “Commitment to meritocracy is one of our core values as a nation,” explains Mencoff. “Especially in this intensively... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Partners - Managing the Future of Work

Partners Partners The Managing the Future of Work project thanks our partners, who play a key role in supporting our research helping business leaders, policy makers, and education and workforce institutions better navigate the unique challenges ahead. Accenture... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

countries. The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society by William R. Kerr Stanford Business Books The global race for talent is on, with... View Details

22 Jun 2021
News

Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

Michelle Banik, Heather Stark (MBA 1999), Penny Collenette, and Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008) When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report came out at the end of March, the news was grim. The significant economic impact of the... View Details

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

to big global problems because certain business leaders have provided the blueprint for how to do it and remain competitive. Individuals have brought tremendous change to the system by providing leading examples, and our students can do... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

are embedded in the broader normative and regulatory environment and that the broader societal context has important influences on dynamics within organizations. Thus, in this study, I decided to draw from neo-institutional theory and apply the question of diversity... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

to be more responsive to markets? The risk exposure calculator helps answer these questions. Another powerful tool we describe in detail is the "profit wheel," a model of the flow of operating profit through a business that enables an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

(think data analytics) as global competition for skilled workers increases. Matthew Breitfelder’s (MBA 2002) transition to the field came midcareer, after stints as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce, a corporate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

million residents at its height, and 9th-century Baghdad vie for the title of the world’s largest city prior to 19th-century London. Today, one useful way to think about cities is to divide them into three fluid (and sometime overlapping) categories: View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

16 Jul 2020
News

Accounting for Real Change

Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, “Crisis Offers a Chance to Rewrite Accounting to Include Impact,” Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) writes that the global pandemic is creating a new... View Details

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses. Among the talent management issues being discussed: an increase in employee turnover, internal training and development... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2001
News

Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase

last spring, sees these additions as the evolution of an already solid resource that combines talent from all over the School. "We'll always be a collaborative effort," he remarks, acknowledging the critical support that the portal... View Details

Keywords: Lory Hough; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid

technocrats, I found plenty of talent and resolve to do things better. But the status quo has many allies, and the culture of management is inherently conservative. Liberia is making enormous progress, but it will need two generations of... View Details

Keywords: foreign aid; Government

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector because of the... View Details