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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
international labor affairs in the U.S. Department of Labor during the administrations of Eisenhower and Kennedy. It was a time when many countries in Africa and Asia were emerging from colonialism. Often trade union leaders were in the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
brothers don’t want to work in the business, and that he wants you to take over—not in a year, but next week. He wants you to deal with the unions and the aftermath of a flood that cost millions of dollars of inventory. He wants you to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
operational performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-062.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsFreelancers Union Michel Anteby and Erin McFeeHarvard Business School Case 412-056 Sara Horowitz faces a major strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708490 Opening Dot EU (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-052 EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
crisis, followed by the outcome of the British referendum on leaving the European Union, has sent shockwaves through Europe. For the first time since the signing of the Treaties of Rome six decades ago, the very notion of European integration as embodied in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Business School Case 715-006 Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot-a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines-that historically tied the European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pundits and politicians point to the burden of pension, health, and union obligations on the cost side. True, but not it's not sufficient just to cut costs. The real game is about revenues. Municipal revenues come from economic activity,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
a collection of principles and policies “intended to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy,” developed by think tanks and trade unions. Already, the European Union has approved a Just Transition Fund of some 19... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
a right-to-work law was not a major part of their election platform because of the union opposition they thought it would generate. Quietly, however, Republicans did support a right-to-work law that was expected to attract more jobs to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
decarbonization targets are for the most part just that: targets. But in Europe, where the European Union and national governments alike tend to be far more aggressive in their pursuit of ambitious climate goals, those targets are... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
office internships. So, in later years, you know, like working with the union leader at GE, I had a strange affinity with him because I actually had done work in my life. So kind of the nature of the people you grew up with. And, I think... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the population hard; for many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
matters worse, the United Kingdom’s June 2016 “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union cast a shadow over the project, and the markets reacted negatively. By the start of November, JCDecaux’s share price had fallen 21% since the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
of 2020 that continued beyond her tenure. “At HBS, I’ve taken an active role in volunteering through the African American Student Union and the Africa Business Club to provide coffee chats and mock interviews for prospective students,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
British astronaut, along with over 10,000 other hopefuls. As I remember, the winning candidate was supposed to train for a year in the USSR before going up in a Soyuz craft. I didn't get selected. But as it happened, the break-up of the Soviet View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Fellow, before being hired to serve as the center’s director of strategic initiatives. “I worked primarily with the president and the CFO of Lincoln Center, and that was an extraordinary opportunity,” Houston says. “I gained experience in everything from labor View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
on a very small screen Complete Table of Contents June 2019 A More Perfect Union America’s faith in democracy is fading. Daniella Ballou-Aares is leading a group of alumni in an ambitious effort to restore it Alumni Achievement Awards... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
game, have a pint, and chat. Once, after we had lost an away game, a number of our American players decided that they were not going to fraternize. I said to them, "Listen, guys, this is rugby union football. This is what we do. If you... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
four months later, Sturzenegger was already facing the 45th day of a labor conflict sparked by union representatives on account of having fired six employees. The showdown raised several questions. First and foremost: Who owned Banco... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel