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11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

systemic problem. That’s something we haven’t seen before now.” The recent rash of high-profile complaints in the news is undoubtedly sending shivers down the spines of business executives nationwide, as many come to grips with the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge sat down to discuss tax policy in general and reform in particular with Professor Matthew C.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

economy driven by research and intellectual property that it no longer accurately signals so-called value stocks, suggests new research from Charles C.Y. Wang, Harvard Business School’s Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2006
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Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

international labor affairs in the U.S. Department of Labor during the administrations of Eisenhower and Kennedy. It was a time when many countries in Africa and Asia were emerging from colonialism. Often trade union leaders were in the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

29 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 29

Eurasia In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After President Yanukovych rejected the free trade agreement with the EU in November,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2009
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Improving Accountability at the World Bank

institutions of global governance and, compared to others—such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, various United Nations agencies, and other multilateral development banks, to name just a few—one of the most... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications of keeping important new ideas locked away in vaults as View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

services, Mills says, citing the experience of milliner Linda Pagan, owner of The Hat Shop in New York. “She decided to create these crazy videos and put them on Instagram, and they’ve taken off,” Mills says. “She still takes customer... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

place—China. In 2001, the country transitioned to independent boards and passed a unique law requiring board members of publicly traded firms to reveal when they dissent from the majority opinion, along with an explanation for their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

overall corporate strategy. Fu Ji has enjoyed phenomenal growth as the corporate catering market in China develops. But that growth in the business also entails a transition from a single restaurant to a restaurant chain, then to a catering business. Is Fu Ji well... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2016
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NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

the New York Giants, the New England Patriots, and the New York Jets. The Cowboys franchise—winner of five Super Bowls—had fallen on hard times. In the previous three years,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

20 Feb 2001
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What’s Next for Japan

himself and coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete?, before leading a discussion on approaches to Japan's economic recovery. The conversation sparked considerable debate around his own... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

listed company and the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies, Chorus, a telecom infrastructure company, and new Telecom,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

23 Apr 2001
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The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

are so interrelated. Q: What's happening in the Gulf? A: We have seen increasing liberalization of the Gulf economies, for instance, the lowering of barriers to trade for foreign companies. These changes will drive some fundamental... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

have held onto it since, or held on and added to your stake, you were making Option A–type choices. If you made the same investment in Microsoft at the same time but sold your stake in December 1999 and then reinvested your $6 million or so of proceeds into other... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

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