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  • March 2009 (Revised July 2010)
  • Case

IBM: The Corporate Service Corps

By: Christopher Marquis and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Describes the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global employees... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations
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  • 28 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

a real question in my mind whether companies here will continue to be competitive in developing flat-panel display innovations. Thompson: So exporting manufacturing ultimately drains away American innovation? Pisano: Absolutely. That's... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • May 2020
  • Article

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn
Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • September 2007
  • Article

Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico

By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber
Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

developing countries. His article, "Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization," appeared in the Review of International Political Economy in February 2006. Ann... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first global economy before 1929 most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2016
  • Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

extra $4.5 billion in annual funding; a $100 million contingency fund for emergencies; and a $1 billion annual research and development fund to be coordinated by a Pandemic Product Development Committee.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Health
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53695 forthcoming Journal of Oncology Practice Development and Feasibility of Bundled Payments for the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer: A Pilot Program By: Spinks, Tracy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

competition from multinationals leads to factor reallocation and the survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and quantify their relative importance in the gains from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

Global Credit Project to analyze the impact of corporate debt in more than 100 advanced and emerging economies in the credit booms that typically precede financial crises. The data overlaps with 87 systemic financial crises, including:... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and the environment. At the moment there's a lot of debate about... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 06 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

therefore money available, with easy credit historically fueling the fire, to risk on new things and new experiences. And the secondary market, from the flea auction to eBay, is well developed so the consumer does not necessarily lose... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • May 2024
  • Article

Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities

By: C. Austin Davis, Paula Lopez-Peña, A. Mushfiq Mobarak and Jaya Y. Wen
Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for the displaced Rohingya people in... View Details
Keywords: Refugees; Political Elections; Equality and Inequality; Immigration; Developing Countries and Economies; Income
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  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

tests in virtually every part of the business. Booking.com Chairwoman Gillian Tans has said that the nimbleness that comes with a testing culture helps companies engage employees and develop better products. Setting too narrow an... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

This generation was showing different beliefs and behaviors than previous generations—beliefs and behaviors that were having a significant impact on the overall economy and in particular on the food industry. This note explores the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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