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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
used to be that you looked at the fraction of foreign students to get a sense of how global the class is. Today, students may say “I have an American passport,” but they’ve worked in four or five different firms and countries. Dean Nohria... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Experiment By: Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian Abstract—When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu Abstract—We study the impact of social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at how the importation of highly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
employed more than 10 million American workers and generated $1.8 trillion in revenue in 2003, concluded a study by Global Insight, a leading economic and forecasting firm. HBS professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, in their 2001 book,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Periodical:Economic Journal 117 (2007): F189-F217 Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
his life and career in South America. Sawyer’s letters include his perspective on contemporary life in Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia in the early 20th century. He describes the landscape and infrastructure such as railways, the relationship between South American View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Washington The People’s Republic of China is more open to foreign investment and trade than it has ever been. Beijing has recently removed restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector and... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
building an electrical component. This information instructs local engineers and other local skilled workers concerning key elements of the firm's technology. The reforms we studied appear to be effective because they were sustained,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Starbucks' strategy, Smith notes, centers on first-mover advantage. That approach has worked well in North America and abroad, as Starbucks, through foreign partnerships, continues to build its presence in Asia, the Middle East, Europe,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Stobaugh suggests the problem is U.S. dependence on foreign oil; the most promising approaches to achieving a more balanced energy menu, he thought, would be largely through increased energy efficiency and focusing on solar energy as the... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
in the economy in order to conserve foreign exchange, and to allocate the limited resources available at the time to a few sectors that could provide critical basic commodities, such as chemicals and steel. The early intervention, under... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
uses the Mexican coffee economy to show how rural landholders and workers had a surprisingly large influence on foreign—and state—driven modernization projects, and how small plantations outlasted large ones in the Soconusco. "It's a... View Details