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- February 1998
- Case
Creating the International Trade Organization
By: David A. Moss, George R. Appling and Andrew D Archer
In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agreements and Arrangements; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Systems; International Relations
Moss, David A., George R. Appling, and Andrew D Archer. "Creating the International Trade Organization." Harvard Business School Case 798-057, February 1998.
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
necessary for reviving economic growth both domestically and internationally. Would these policies successfully create a resurgence of growth? Can expansionary monetary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Global Currency Hedging
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
Power of WE, cultivating campus cultures that harness diversity as a tool for individual and collective success. Currently a student at Harvard Medical School, she serves as national president for Future Doctors in Politics, to motivate, educate, and train medical... View Details
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
Comments were replete with advice to leaders regarding honesty, candor, and an optimistic bias. Zack Allen advised, "Honesty is the best policy (but it) does not mean being a nay-sayer or a wet blanket." Peter Bowie suggested... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
- Case
Astroscale, Space Debris, and Earth's Orbital Commons
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Angela Acocella and Mayuka Yamazaki
An engineer and technology entrepreneur, Nobu Okada, had turned a mid-life crisis into a bold—some would say quixotic—quest to prevent a tragedy of the commons at the global scale. Namely, Okada believed the accumulation of debris in near-Earth orbital space posed a... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Global Range; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Economics; Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, Angela Acocella, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Astroscale, Space Debris, and Earth's Orbital Commons." Harvard Business School Case 716-037, February 2016. (Revised May 2016.)
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
County, Wyoming—which is home to Jackson Hole, a popular resort town, and where the Federal Reserve held its annual Economic Policy Symposium last week—and Monroe County, Alabama—which is home to... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Faia is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Center for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term actions; clear communication internally and externally; and a... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
best-known authority, TRUSTe, are more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
finance , consumer goods , consumer policy , government and business , political economy Interviews Anil Jain Marlous van Waijenburg Assistant Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : business history , View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their economic interest to do so? A recent working paper by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
explicitly and with intent. The implication for leaders: overcommunicate, and over-reinforce boundaries and expectations. While organizational policies are the infrastructure of meeting employees’ four drives, managers implement those... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- Web
Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
West Palm Beach, FL MA Heather Bagdoian Claremont Academy Worcester, MA AL Suzanne Bailey Virgil Grissom High School Huntsville, AL CO Denny Bain Poudre High School Fort Collins, CO Subjects: American Government, US History, Economics MA... View Details
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
back to Egypt five years ago, investor Amal Enan embraced the chaos—and found a path to impact her country’s future Complete Table of Contents December 2022 Full Court Press With a $1 billion valuation, a group of high-profile investors, an aggressive growth plan, and... View Details
- January–February 2014
- Article
Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy
By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Robert J. Thomas
When most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Success; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry
Ready, Douglas A., Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas. "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2014): 62–68.
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
outbreaks Climate change and its ensuing environmental, economic and social disasters is the next White Swan.” JSD saw a possible motive behind the debate when he opined that, “In the corporate sector, the continuing effort to brand the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
leaders can improve competitiveness by focusing on national policies as well as regional initiatives and cluster development. Cross-National Regions Strategies that coordinate economic View Details
- 13 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Theory and Evidence on Preference Heterogeneity and Redistribution
Keywords: by Benjamin Lockwood & Matthew Weinzierl
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
uncomfortable spot of trying to maintain the tricky balance of bolstering economic development without completely killing cultural diversity. Glaeser, Kim, and Luca believe their novel approach, which mashes up data from online platforms... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman