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- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
conditions. In this case, Western consumers were taking responsibility not for their own health but for the health and safety of workers in a foreign land thousands of miles away. Consumer power has not been... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
film, and certainly the most foreign to twenty-first-century viewers. Hired by a loan shark, the bawler-out was an agent, usually a woman, who would visit a delinquent borrower’s place of work and threaten to expose him if he didn’t pay... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Publication:National Tax Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
States, considering that all three have been large foreign direct investors? A: Keetie Sluyterman and I intended our chapter comparing British and Dutch business history to be provocative. The business historians of these two countries... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
patterns. We present a model where beliefs determine the types of contracts that firms offer and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
intermediate goods led by Multinational Corporations (MNCs). Foreign direct investment (FDI) became the dominant source of foreign private capital for many emerging markets, promising additional productivity... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
military control) of less-developed countries and exploit their workers and natural resources. This form of globalization is clearly a win-lose system in terms of all four drives. And while political colonialism is practically dead,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM, for example, while it still has more than 300,000 employees worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
his life and career in South America. Sawyer’s letters include his perspective on contemporary life in Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia in the early 20th century. He describes the landscape and infrastructure such as railways, the relationship between South American View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
conduct business. In fact, consumers vote with their checkbooks if they feel that transnational companies aren't acting as stewards of public health, worker rights, and the environment. As infamous cases have filled the airwaves—Nestlé's... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Starbucks' strategy, Smith notes, centers on first-mover advantage. That approach has worked well in North America and abroad, as Starbucks, through foreign partnerships, continues to build its presence in Asia, the Middle East, Europe,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Stobaugh suggests the problem is U.S. dependence on foreign oil; the most promising approaches to achieving a more balanced energy menu, he thought, would be largely through increased energy efficiency and focusing on solar energy as the... View Details