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- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
that both legal and illegal immigration of low-skilled workers to the U.S. have effects that have been overlooked. They raise questions as to whether much the same is true elsewhere in the world and whether... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
What do you think? Original Article A newly-published book by Paul Roberts, The End of Oil, and a variety of observers remind us again that we either have seen or will soon see... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
subjects playing this game. We call this latter quantity the model's Equivalent Number of Observations (ENO), and explore its properties. Paper not available The Implicit Effect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
restore credibility to financial markets? And if not through legislation and regulation, how then do we address the disease rather than the symptoms? What do you think? Original Article The collapse of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
thickening of the left-hand tail of the firm-size distribution suggesting a significant increase in the number of small firms. However, the dominance and growth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
“predictable and decent government structures,” while not wholly democratic, can lead to “an effective result.” Asked what the West doesn’t understand about Islam, Wolfensohn said, “When you’re in a conflict, typecasting happens. But... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on communication, feedback and coaching,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
consumers and workers, and the political realities of modern governments. That appears to be a central message conveyed by responses to this month’s column. Ian Brinkley raised the issue of shifting needs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Crisis By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
profitable than domestic operations. There's also a growing awareness that not all countries tax their corporations in the same way, and that American firms have to compete with firms that face very different tax regimes, many View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
unlock such devices? Is our current discussion of infotech security versus privacy a waste of time? What do you think? Original Column The red hot legal dispute between Apple... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
and Michael Slind show how trusted and effective leaders are adapting the principles of face-to-face conversation in order to pursue a new form of organizational conversation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
argues Mikołaj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
Amendment and another was on the regulation of the communications industry. Did things work out as you planned after graduation? Well, yes and no. With my original post-MBA career plan in mind, I went... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
trying to raise money." Organizational behaviorists have known for years that third-party endorsements are critical to a young firm's success. Higgins and Gulati wanted to understand the origins and nature View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
theoretical conclusion based on the historical experiences of business groups built up by the British-based trading companies with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins comes close to mainstream... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne