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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
said. (To learn more about Edmondson's research on speaking up, see the Harvard Business Review article, Why Employees are Afraid to Speak.) Thin Political Markets Karthik Ramanna's presentation focused on "Thin View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
how are you supposed to negotiate a price with the insurers?" Feeley says. "All these things are phenomenally intertwined." Measuring Outcomes Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness co-founded the View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger. “This is not a field for mile-wide, inch-deep managers” On October 4-5, Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, hosted the international conference,... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
that they think in terms of service lines, normally define them in terms of specialties such as internal medicine, radiology, urology, surgery, and so on. Both of these prevailing modes of business definition in health care providers... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
Experts on the African economies say globalization has yet to benefit the continent in a significant way, and that what is really needed is political change and more investment from within its own borders. The comments came during a panel... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
researchers measured changes in people’s attitudes before, during, and after protests on a variety of topics, including environmental protection, gender equality, gun control, immigration, national and international politics, and racial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
difficult challenges ahead, he said, will be persuading people around the world that their trust in the private sector, rather than the government, could be well placed. "It becomes a lot more difficult when internal documents show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Managing up is not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
relative to local firms. In countries with weak capital markets and burdensome regulatory regimes, multinational firms can use their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can't. In effect, these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
quality metrics are unreliable and thus, recent legislation may result in unintended consequences. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54443 in press Business History Internment as a Business Challenge: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the elective course Managing View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
political pressures. If successful, the Chinese Communist Party will forge a new path of urbanization, building cities before recruiting urban citizens. The process, however, entails possibilities of yet other social dislocations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper proposes a new comprehensive approach to measure, analyze, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with strong local competition and a difficult market. It remained unclear how Alcatel would be able to recover growth in the Chinese market. Initiatives were... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; International Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Communications Industry; China; France; United States
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition." Harvard Business School Case 706-036, May 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (E)- ABB Investment in China
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In July 2005, China revalued its currency by 2.1% and adjusted its exchange rate regime toward a more market-based system. ABB, a global power and automation technologies company based out of Switzerland with operations in China, was among those companies confronted... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation; China; Switzerland
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (E)- ABB Investment in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-035, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting broader areas of the social science. Raiffa received the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
of economic development that is also taught simultaneously, using Internet-delivered material, in seventeen other universities. Professor Porter also speaks widely on competitive strategy and international competitiveness to business and... View Details