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- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
down.” [break] Kim moved to the United States in 1974, at age 11, and lived with his uncle in West Orange, New Jersey, until his parents and sister joined him a year later. South Korean president Park Chung Hee, elected in 1963, brought swift View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally,” says Tabellini. “It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t.” Despite the national reckoning in the United States after the killing of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The infrastructure that processes... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
the next time your talks seem stalled for deal-related reasons: Is price truly the only issue? Can we unbundle different aspects of what looks like a single issue and give each side what it values most—at low cost to the other side? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
programmable biology, and then all of the disruption from the pandemic, from conflict and economic disruption, the frame in which we’re doing strategy has all changed. Now, you’re just as likely to be disrupted by an entrant completely... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
unverifiable. As an experiment for this article, he used several of those resources to find the true cost of a car at a dealership. The prices delivered by the consumer sites didn’t match. “I can’t trust the data,” he says. Can this... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
important new direction in economic policy, building on earlier efforts in macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, market opening, and reducing the costs of doing business. Cluster Mapping Jun 2017... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
social entity. These bonds of membership create the social capital of a profession, which builds trust and significantly reduces transaction costs among members of that profession and between the profession... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Capital Market Integration and Growth across the United States
By: Leonardo D'Amico and Maxim Alekseev
What drives the integration of national financial markets and what are its consequences for regional growth? We digitize and collect US state-level banking data from 1953 to 1983 and document a tight link between high nominal short rates and financial integration,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
just numbers, and that it's odd to have to pay for a number. With prices stuck very close to zero, and demand steady and growing, economic incentives invite exhaustion. Q: What happens if nothing is done and we run out of addresses? Does... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
growing pains in 2007, founder Howard Schultz realized its unique customer experience was broken. The State of Customer Service LeadershipThe economic future of the country is largely in the hands of those who lead our service... View Details
- Web
Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Bendix, Reinhard and Lloyd H. Fisher. "The Perspectives of Elton Mayo," The Review of Economics and Statistics , vol. 31, no. 4, Nov. 1949, pp. 312-319. Full text available as a networked resource (valid Harvard ID required). Brammel, D.... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
and prevent further industrial pollution in communities near ports. The law also allocates $15 billion for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,[31] which works both to stimulate the economy and make jobs and to deliver “lower energy costs... View Details