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- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Compensation and Benefits; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Negotiation Process; Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-319, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- 27 May 2022
- News
How “Digital Nomad” Visas Can Boost Local Economies
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Get involved in improving your local community
Former chairman and CEO of American Express James Robinson III (MBA 1961) talks about how business can get involved in improving their local communities. (Published April 2014) View Details
- June 2017
- Article
The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments
By: Christophe Pérignon and Boris Vallée
We examine the toxic loans sold by investment banks to local governments. Using proprietary data, we show that politicians strategically use these products to increase chances of being re-elected. Consistent with greater incentives to hide the cost of debt, toxic loans... View Details
Pérignon, Christophe, and Boris Vallée. "The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments." Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 6 (June 2017): 1903–1934.
- February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer
By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann
In the wake of the meltdown among U.S. auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors, has a new approach for the automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars"... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Customization and Personalization; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Norton, Michael I., and Jeremy Dann. "Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer." Harvard Business School Case 510-062, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit
Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 2000
- Chapter
Local Liquor Control from 1934 to 1970
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman S. Strumpf
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Koleman S. Strumpf. "Local Liquor Control from 1934 to 1970." In Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History, edited by Jac C. Heckelman, John C. Moorhouse, and Robert M. Whaples, 163–180. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
- 18 May 2012
- News
Workers told, ditch local languages for English
- 12 Jul 2008
- News
LAND HOE: Demand surges for local food
- 18 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
- September 2020
- Article
The Gig Economy Beyond Local Services and Transportation
By: Christopher Stanton and Catherine Thomas
Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas. "The Gig Economy Beyond Local Services and Transportation." CESifo Forum 21, no. 3 (September 2020): 21–26.
- 1995
- Book
World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions
Kanter, R. M. World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. (German, Veberreuter; Portuguese, Editora Campus; Spanish; Korean, KPI Publishing; Thai; Chinese, Shanghai People's Publishing House. Other reprinting information available from the publisher.)
- 30 May 2019
- News
Lessons All Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Shop Local Movement
- 2013
- Chapter
The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective
By: G. Jones
This chapter explores the impact of the global beauty industry on beauty ideals. It shows that as the industry internationalized from the late nineteenth century, there was a homogenization of beauty ideals and practices around the world. Western and white beauty... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Globalization; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
Jones, G. "The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective." Chap. 1 in Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Thomas Kuhne, 25–40. Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Power and Influence
Marquis, Christopher, and Julie Battilana. "Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-034, November 2007.
- Article
Local Search and the Evolution of Technological Capabilities
By: Toby E Stuart and Joel M. Podolny
Stuart, Toby E., and Joel M. Podolny. "Local Search and the Evolution of Technological Capabilities." Special Issue on Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategy. Strategic Management Journal 17 (Summer 1996): 21–38.
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
With local connections and quirkiness, indie bookstores thrive
- Article
A New Proof of Serre's Homological Characterization of Regular Local Rings
By: Ravi Jagadeesan and Aaron Landesman
We give a new proof of Serre’s result that a Noetherian local ring is regular if and only if it has finite global dimension. Our proof avoids the explicit construction of a Koszul complex. View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Jagadeesan, Ravi, and Aaron Landesman. "A New Proof of Serre's Homological Characterization of Regular Local Rings." Art. 18. Research in Number Theory 2 (December 2016).
- December 2009
- Article
Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Ethnicity; Behavior; Local Range; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Joel Waldfogel. "Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?" American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009).