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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
opposite: in today’s world, capital is mobile. If American companies cannot employ the best talent in the United States, they have two choices: risk becoming less competitive in an intensively competitive world; or locate your capital View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
elaborates Susan Rogers, who points to the evolution of the Internet and the ascendance of digital technology as key factors in the School's ability to move forward. "We can now embed digitized video directly into cases; that was... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customers only know they will pay less for something tomorrow than they do today.” There will continue to be niches in U.S. manufacturing for low-volume production, notes Sharpe, where investment is high, turnaround is important, and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
encourage participation—or closed. This paper reviews factors that motivate decisions to open or close mature platforms. At the platform provider and sponsor levels, these decisions entail 1) interoperating with established rival... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
service relationships is neither well understood, nor consistently factored into service design. In this paper, two laboratory experiments and one field experiment, conducted in financial service contexts, document the negative effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
economy. There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for their part, allowed it to go unchecked.— Jay Lorsch Koehn: Board performance and the culture of organizations as factors affecting a firm's integrity have been... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
products to displace locally customized varieties. What factors do seem to matter? A: In some products, unlike most categories of TV programming, willingness-to-pay may actually be higher for globally or regionally standardized products... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
models or for country-level factors like culture, genes, or institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-052.pdf A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level Authors:Diego A. Comin and Sunil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
(c) accountability in implementation. Examples are drawn from the experiences of South Africa and Brazil. Several preliminary factors are identified that may enhance policy learning, while acknowledging the constraints of bounded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
reinvent the bookstore for the age of Amazon Making Sense of the Modern Startup How Bill Sahlman invented Entrepreneurial Finance The Founding of AASU Four alumni recall the forces and factors that drove them to found the African American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
death in a quantity equivalent to two grains of salt, has become a major factor contributing to the spike in overdoses. Last year, recognizing the fast-moving and shapeshifting nature of these and other alarming developments, Langford... View Details