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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
2 (2005): 7-26 Customers in business-to-business transactions in the Soviet Union were dominated by suppliers who were in such superior positions that the situation facing customers might have been described as "supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
partners: the company's own employees. Figure out how to involve and motivate them. "That will vary depending upon the degree of unionization of the industry, of the company," he said. "One issue that has come up in our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
director of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion for the Union for Reform Judaism, asked students to reflect on the Torah’s tale of Shiphrah and Puah, two midwives who successfully defied the Pharoah’s command to kill Israelite newborn... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Describes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
needed to ponder on how to revise the company's compensation system to better motivate its staff in a deregulated market and communicate all these changes to the unionized labor force. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
officer; and me to head up the 70-plus-member Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force. It represented a cross section of our community—MBA students (including the three African American Student Union copresidents), doctoral students, faculty,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the African American Student Union hosts the annual Black New Venture Competition to help early-stage Black entrepreneurs further their business concepts. Tom Eisenmann: If you examine a sample of venture capital-backed startups, you’ll... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Melissa HammerleHarvard Business School Note 311-014 This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the financial crisis of 2008. First, it will discuss European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
low-price-grocery leader. But this is a position you can only hold if your costs are lower than your competitors. Through its steady disinvestment in its stores, through its high-priced union contracts, through its ill-advised... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
hands-on education. Honored annually at the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference—the yearly gathering of the HBS African American Student Union and the HBS African-American Alumni Association, an organization he cofounded in 1978—Fitzhugh, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
should make. The gains we have made on gender are fragile and must be vigilantly monitored and reinforced. The 50th anniversary of the African American Student Union made us recognize that we have even more work to do on advancing racial... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements. But Chapter 11 will be less... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
case is based have been disguised. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-026 The TTIP: Bridging the Transatlantic Economy In 2016, the United States and the European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55025 UK Competitiveness after Brexit By: Ketels, Christian, and Michael E. Porter Abstract—On June 23, 2016, 52% of UK voters opted to put their country on the path to leave the European... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
management. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRussia: Revolution and Reform Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-030 The collapse of central authority in the Soviet View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of 2008 also forced the Icelandic people to confront a decision: would joining the European Union (EU) protect Iceland from capricious swings in investor sentiment? What, if anything,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
results will come through the consistent pursuit of policies that streamline the judicial process, strengthen corporate governance, and liberalize markets." Fitzhugh Conference Marks Three Decades of Achievement In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, this year's... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
note. Flattening can lead to exactly the opposite effects from what it promises to do. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-087.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Freelancers Union (B) Michel Anteby and Erin... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel