Mexico, Gulf of - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

documents how and why companies are moving operations to low-cost countries like Vietnam, Mexico, and Costa Rica. “They moved into a world where they thought there were no more shocks. Now, they realize there are shocks View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

30 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

stayed that way (Chile, Latvia, Mexico, Philippines, and Russia.) Men tended to report more conservative gender attitudes than women-with the exception of Mexico, where women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

International, 1998). According to Hayes and Vogel, business people, particularly Westerners who work in the Persian Gulf and other Islamic regions such as Asia and North Africa, need to appreciate the extent to which religion and Islamic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Teaching Interest

Overview

Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

successes so that people can learn from them. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently doing research on offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These are fascinating to us... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

White people who host rental properties on Airbnb earn significantly more per year than Black hosts, but a “race blind” pricing algorithm could help close that income gap, new research shows. Black hosts who rely on Airbnb’s algorithm to set enticing prices instead... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

As the number of casualties from COVID-19 ballooned at an alarming rate last year, some feared that government officials were failing to report several coronavirus-related losses and the actual death toll was much higher worldwide. While... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

time, and the timeline for decisions. Employees understand that events are continually unfolding and will accept changes if the evidence and reasoning are clear. Boilerplate rhetoric will likely disengage them. INSEAD’s Jennifer Petriglieri studied BP’s handling View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

contingent reserves, and reserve dependent output costs. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-010.pdf Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

From the problems posed by the Great Recession to the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, from the continuing economic growth of India... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

reduce poverty within their borders. Several years ago, world leaders gathered in Monterrey, Mexico, and gave poverty reduction top priority. They committed themselves to halve the number of people living on... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique social, cultural, political, and historical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexican economy registered growth during this tumultuous period. "You'd think the economy would come to a crashing halt," Maurer says. "Except that when you look around the world, it turns out there are a number of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

American trade deficit and the price of oil at more than $130 per barrel (at press time) have created an inevitable pool of financial liquidity among oil exporters in the Arabian Gulf. But this era View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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