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- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found Management Leadership for... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
Institute estimating that autonomous vehicles will exert a global economic impact ranging from $200 billion to $1.2 trillion by 2025, there ought to be plenty of new players on the horizon. Moreover, ridesharing makes the cost easier to... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-144, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund managers to incorporate ESG... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
until at least 10 minutes have passed without a bid. Q: In your study of eBay, how much sniping was going on, and what categories or products were most likely to be sniped? A: In the eBay data we collected for our 2002 American Economics... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with regard to core standards in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
of poverty, props up tyrants, and undermines political stability and economic progress. As the world's largest repository of this kind of money, the United States erodes its own strategic objectives — and its moral stature — in countries... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance Authors:Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
From resolving a labor dispute to orchestrating a merger to getting a new company off the ground, negotiation plays a vital role in nearly every facet of business. In response, Professor James Sebenius, founder of the HBS Negotiation Unit... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
to recent political and economic shifts or part of a deeper social and cultural history? What can be done to address this crisis in our criminal justice system? The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB), in partnership with the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
structure will help them manage their businesses more efficiently and responsibly.” The GRI is emerging even as institutional investors, NGOs, and governments intensify their scrutiny of firms in areas such as environmental impact, human rights, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
are examined not only as economic entities but as businesses affecting almost all areas of our experience. The book explores the history and various aspects of the multinational, concluding with the principal developments of the 20th... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract—Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
businesses is to generate economic returns, so it makes sense that some motives would tend toward the utilitarian, coexisting with altruistic motivations of business leaders and manifesting themselves in the collaborative undertakings.... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne