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  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 909-010 Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

families, who are no longer able to rely on traditional “crops” because of years’ long drought conditions. The increased tax base also benefits local communities, especially their school systems. And then there are the new jobs, hundreds... View Details
  • 2008
  • Book

On Competition

By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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  • 02 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

time for him to look and talk tough on trade and China. The resulting job creation in a particular industry will be concentrated and visible, while jobs lost in other sectors... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53895 The Supply Chain Economy: A New Framework for Understanding Innovation and Services By: Delgado, Mercedes, and Karen G. Mills Abstract—The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Design; Strategy; Design Thinking; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Design; Technology; Leadership; Innovation Strategy
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

will dramatically change the options for small businesses.” Her new book, Fintech, Small Business, & the American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge-and how to get it back.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

matters are too long. The response of investors who say they care about sustainability-and their numbers are large and growing-is that companies do a poor job in providing them with the information they need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

of policy On a broader level, the findings argue for more open immigration policies for skilled workers. Even if such a policy didn’t immediately translate to jobs, it could translate to the development of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • 12 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12

    contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13% of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Nov 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Enterprising Women—a History

    professor Nancy Koehn, pointing out that women played key roles in the early American economy through the development of cottage industries and in the organization and work of... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard
    • 10 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: First Look: October 10

      Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 14

    somewhere to stay. Clustering created positive externalities drawing new entrepreneurs into the industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry. The creation View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7, 2009

      Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 13, 2016

    Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation By: Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy Abstract—Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 20 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

    2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

    victory for organized labor in a context where New Deal era legislation—most notably the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—created a labor friendly environment in the short run, with possibly adverse... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne