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  • 2010
  • Report

Nordic Globalization Barometer 2010

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2010 Nordic Globalization Barometer, the third in this series, is again designed to serve as input to the discussions of the five Nordic Prime Ministers (representing Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) at the Nordic Globalization Forum. In its first... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Competition; Research and Development; Policy; Financial Crisis; Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; China
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  • News

American dynamism dimmed

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  • News

America’s Education System at a Crossroads: New Research and Insights on Business-Educator Partnerships in PK-12 Education

  • 14 Feb 2007
  • News

Board Silly

  • 31 May 2019
  • News

ABA Annual Membership Meeting: Opportunities, Challenges Lie Ahead

  • 17 Sep 2018
  • News

Can Barnes & Noble be saved?

    Morningstar Misclassification

    We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital flows. The problem is widespread - resulting in up to 31.4% of funds being misclassified with safer... View Details

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    Site Map

    Site Map Site Map General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Campus Contemporary Art Employment Map / Directions News Policies, Rules & Guidelines School Leadership Tours Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details
    • Article

    Gender Disparities in Compensation of Practicing Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Analyzing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Compensation Survey

    By: Cherie P. Erkmen, Anastasiia K. Tompkins, Shanda Blackmon, Larry R. Kaiser, Susanna Gallani, Jennifer C. Romano, Thomas MacGillivray and Michael J. Mack
    BACKGROUND: Gender-based pay disparity in compensation is widespread. In cardiothoracic surgery, women earn between 71-84% of men’s salaries at comparable ranks. Limited data exist on how factors like subspecialty, practice type, and work efforts contribute to these... View Details
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    • 16 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

    behave when they experience higher levels of passion. Among their findings: Supervisors are more likely to perceive extroverted employees as passionate compared to introverts, even when the two groups report similar levels of excitement... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

    report guides organizations in supporting work-life balance for caregivers. Fuller finds that there are strong incentives to support these employees with benefits; payoffs include lower turnover and less absenteeism. Instead of urging... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items

    By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan
    This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Disclosure; Performance
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Average Marginal Income Tax Rates in New Zealand, 1907-2009

    By: Debasis Bandyopadhyay, Robert J. Barro, Jeremy Couchman, Norman Gemmell, Gordon Y Liao and Fiona McAlister
    Estimates of marginal tax rates (MTRs) faced by individual economic agents, and for various aggregates of taxpayers, are important for economists testing behavioural responses to changes in those tax rates. This paper reports estimates of a number of personal marginal... View Details
    Keywords: Average Marginal Income Tax Rates; New Zealand; Taxation; New Zealand
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    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy

    By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels, Mercedes Delgado and Richard Bryden
    In early 2006, the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) in Moscow commissioned Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a review of the existing evidence on Russian competitiveness. The objective of this report is to synthesize, interpret, and draw implications... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Russia
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    • 14 Nov 2006
    • Other Presentation

    Competitiveness and Economic Development: Where Does Texas Stand?

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in articular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for Companies and Governments" in On Competition (Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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    • October 2010
    • Journal Article

    The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies

    By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
    This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Product; Markets; Competition; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Rank and Position; Organizational Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Change; Trade; United States
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    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies

    By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
    This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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    British Airways: ""Go for It, America!"" Promotion (A)

    By: Stephen A. Greyser
    Senior marketing executives of a major international airline are deciding on a strategy to address a crisis situation precipitated by a series of terrorist acts. The company is experiencing the worst downturn ever in its U.S.-U.K. travel business due to media reports... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Crime and Corruption; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Time Management; Marketing Strategy; Perception; Value Creation; Travel Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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      Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

      This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991-1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this... View Details

        Achieving 80% GHG Reduction in New England by 2050

        This report analyzes the pace of clean energy additions that would be needed to meet New England's 2050 economy-wide decarbonization targets. It concludes that to meet those targets average annual clean energy additions would likely have to increase 4-8 fold over the... View Details