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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
"The Big Picture" explores macroeconomic indicators, as well as those associated with the opportunities and constraints of the business environment; (2) "Regional Variation" makes a strong case for situating any analysis of China's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
empowering local communities. Our visit to the facility stemmed three observations about the future of waste and plastic management: 1) Importance of Public-Private partnerships in solving the waste problem: Innovation in India requires View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Shenaz Hossein Associate Professor of Global Development, University of Toronto Scarborough Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair Tier 2 of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy and Associate Professor of Global... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
Technology Innovations in Education, Managing Human Capital, and an independent project through the Social Innovation Lab. She was also able to examine the economic forces around teachers unions through her group paper in the Role of Government in Market View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and industry predictions, in their own words, follow below. Justin Dawe (MBA 2007) President, Scoot Networks “The more we use renewables and storage, the cheaper they get. That’s a really profound thing, when you think about what it means for building an View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
about the research exploring the supply chain economy conducted by Karen Gordon Mills and Mercedes Delgado. FIRST-YEAR MBA STUDENTS TO WORK WITH US BUSINESSES HBS has restarted and reimagined its FIELD Immersion course this spring after... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
week, with blockchain it could happen in seconds. Blockchain could slash the cost of transactions and eliminate intermediaries like lawyers and bankers, and that could transform the economy. But, like the adoption of more Internet technologies, blockchain’s adoption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
managed centrally. This level of control is conducive to protecting the organization's brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of control might be particularly desirable when the program being... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important for organizations and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands of Americans daily, a bumpy vaccine rollout, a shaky View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
ephemeral state of entropy we live in, called Digital." We're left with impression that changes in leadership required for success in the fast-moving information economy will be achieved with limited discomfort. And yet we are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett