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  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term responses to a global recession against longer-term planning for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

governance, discussed in a presentation by HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu and associate professor Tarun Khanna. They suggested that the need to compete in global product and labor markets actually preceded... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Ideas: Books

finds that while before 1930 the Colombian government granted United Fruit generous concessions and helped repress labor unionism, after 1930 the company, responding to growing nationalism, a stronger labor... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

Loyalty In Retail Self-service retail, which started with customers selecting their own merchandise in the 1930s and evolved to modern conveniences including self-checkout lanes, has saved businesses labor costs and customers time. But... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Faculty Research Online

explores new wrinkles in this age-old formula — and how government policy may affect entrepreneurship. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5865.html. Marketing Your Way through a Recession In a recession, consumers become value-oriented,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2015
  • News

Goldman Alumni’s Mozambique Merchant Bank Eyes Gas Boom

  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Classic Lines

attracting some fifteen million viewers weekly. Enter Dekkers Davidson (MBA '82), CEO of Antiques America, an online company (antiquesamerica.com) that brings together buyers and sellers in this $25 billion market and wants to be the... View Details
Keywords: antiques; Information
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Digging Deep

solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • May 2013
  • Article

From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

By: Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Supply and Industry; Labor; West Germany; Soviet Union
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Falck, Oliver, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr. "From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 3 (May 2013): 419–449.
  • 08 Jan 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

democracy (and the lives of the 1%)? Is this something that market mechanisms can resolve? Or will responses like those Rifkin proposes be the answer? Or are these just 2013's issues of the day? What do you think? To Read More: Jaron... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope

really represented this promise of economic mobility. It’s important for any student who’s planning to go directly into the labor market after they finish their undergraduate degree to start the career... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

Markets don't just determine prices, they also determine who gets what. For commodities, the price does most of the work, but many markets, like labor markets, don't clear by price alone. You don't hire just... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Yoga Inc.

phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual around yoga offers View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

influence from those valued for non-social reasons. The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Publication:In Studies of Labor View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

each knew, not just intuitively, but strategically—and after a time, financially and organizationally—that they had to create a sustainable market for their offerings. If Wedgwood could parachute forward into our time, or if we could go... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Faculty Books

Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
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