Corporate Nationality - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jan 2023
News

Turning Up the Volume

When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

enjoyed the chance to build and deepen relationships with over one hundred diverse, local leaders, from Black and Brown business owners whose innovation and resilience is inspiring, to corporate executives authentically trying to figure... View Details

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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Mind in Action . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Dobbin, Frank. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Dunlavy, Colleen A. "Organizing Railroad Interests: The... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

Utku Ünver explain in a paper, factors such as contracts, control of stadiums, and corporate sponsorship effectively tied the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) into a system of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

United States, and as an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly. During that time, Franklin also started a management consulting firm and began serving as a director of View Details

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

discover how immigration law affects the number of such patents, and explain how, under certain conditions, patenting traditional medicine can mutually benefit both corporate firms and indigenous communities. Where's The Proof? The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

twentieth century and its effect on American life. How did we become a nation of "organization men" in the 1950s, to take a term from William H. Whyte? How did that change pathways to success and ideas about citizenship? How did other... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Massport (A): The Aftermath of 9/11

This case looks at the turnaround at the Massachusetts Port Authority after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It begins with the situation during the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and then describes how the new CEO restructures the public agency to operate much more like a... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Corporate Accountability; National Security; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Public Administration Industry; Massachusetts

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30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

list began in 1955. The figures are only slightly better beyond the corner office. According to a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, a percentage... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

others. I view my volunteer efforts as a way to perpetuate the University as a renewable resource that will benefit others for generations to come.” is partner and national director of China for Ernst & Young. Born and raised in Hong... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

pardonable hyperbole of the guidebook, into a "stupendous, gigantic, super-magnificent ... greatest show on earth." Time magazine called it "the biggest, costliest, most ambitious undertaking ever attempted in the history of international... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

of Business Administration at HBS. “In the process, they jump-start investing in areas that might be important for the environment.” They examine the phenomenon in a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Financing the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

01 Feb 1998
News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

all, don't fear failure," she stressed. "Remember, the fear of failure is a sure formula for not achieving success." The theme of risk taking was echoed throughout the day, starting with the first morning panel on corporate leadership... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Karen Tumulty Reports on America

After more than twenty years in journalism, covering everything from the coroner's office to the Oval Office, Karen E. Tumulty (MBA '81), Time magazine's national political correspondent, has seen it all. So how to explain the warm smile,... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back and companies were again encouraged by host countries to build and run major infrastructure... View Details

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details

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