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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
find that while a coordination system—the relevant processes, roles and responsibilities, and structure—can be designed to address existing individual and functional biases in the organization; the new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit rating analysts to party... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
I hope will last. My primary research interests are political economy and development. In the past few years economists have been very interested in analyzing political phenomena like civil wars. Civil wars are the dominant form of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
subject to less radical political change than authoritarian regimes. The thing to fear is the monarchy's digging in, not the success of the opposition. In Egypt, little has changed with Mubarak's ouster by the military, which plays a major role in the Egyptian economy.... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
the data support our model over alternative explanations such as recession-induced reduction in agency costs (due to managerial fears of bankruptcy) and changing coordination costs. Countries with more decentralized firms (like the U.S.)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, forthcoming... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
and the government invested dramatically in building a scientific and technical infrastructure needed to fuel growth. That was the national strategy, but it was not industrial policy. There's an important need today for having a View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming) Abstract In the aftermath of World... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607083 Punjab and Kerala: Regional Development in India Harvard Business School Case 707-008 Between 2000 and 2004, India's economy grew by 6.35 percent. Focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
different industry and executive context: Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader (2013). The book focuses on CEO leadership in the global economy and the fast-changing IT-enabled pace of business. We extended... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
the risk-adjusted balance sheet, which shows the sensitivity of the enterprise's assets and liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as interconnected portfolios of assets,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
extremely tight coordination and the transfer of learning between those who design and those who manufacture. If you do not understand the production environment, you have a harder time designing the product. In these settings, there are... View Details