Emergent States - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

California passed a similar law last year, which will go into effect in 2020. It’s an open question whether that law will spur the US Congress to enact similar measures, or water down California’s law. Congress has been talking about a privacy bill for two years, but... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

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City released the 'New' New York Plan focused on transforming the city's job centers to support the ways people will live and work in the future. A set of initiatives emerged to serve as a roadmap to make New York City the best place to... View Details

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Brooke Borgen

career choice. Regardless, I hope the Canopy model empowers women with the knowledge that fulfilling their many life roles is never a “less-than” career choice, and the strongest leaders emerge when they forge the path that is right for... View Details

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

unelected, "technocratic" national emergency governments. If after Greece, Portugal and Ireland, Italy were to fall into the debt spiral, it might be the domino piece that could bring down the entire European Monetary Union... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

Profile

Maura Sullivan

a solar-powered plant for producing their SunChips," Maura says. "Pepsi's moving toward a hybrid truck fleet, and is taking the lead in clean water initiatives for their plants in India and other emerging countries." In HBS... View Details

Portrait Project

Margaret Watson

A dark hospital waiting room was not how I imagined spending my night. I was about to start the second week of my internship and instead of getting a good night’s sleep, I was waiting for my boyfriend to get out of emergency surgery. I... View Details

Portrait Project

Laila Kassis

their work and their community, has motivated me to provide such opportunity for disenfranchised people by promoting entrepreneurship. I want to give aspiring entrepreneurs the skills and courage to try and to fail, to learn from their failures and to View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

there is nothing new about the globalization of firms. Since the emergence of the first global economy in the nineteenth century and the growth of the first manufacturing multinationals, such as Saint-Gobain, Siemens, and Singer Sewing... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about business realities I’ve been living every day,” he notes. “Finance was the subject where I had the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

that kind of one-sided knowledge. The Farmers Business Network (FBN), cofounded by Baron, agriculture investor and entrepreneur Amol Deshpande, and several farmers, has emerged in a period of particular crisis for the American farmer.... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Jan 2004
News

Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi Corporation may have topped the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

leaders remain oblivious to an emerging threat or problem—a lack of attention that can plague even the most skilled executives. After European Commission regulators refused to approve General Electric's $42 billion acquisition of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead in many other growing segments... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

Portrait Project

John Kelleher

linked with global forces. When emerging markets half way around the world present attractive business prospects, or when hatred festering in far away places spawns terrorism close to home—foreign policy is domestic policy. Miss this... View Details

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

will emerge new kinds of collective actions that will address the contemporary issues of multinational workforces and globalized networks of trade and commerce." These comments raise several questions: Just what new kinds of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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