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- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper declines in aggregate output, demand, and credit conditions displayed a greater advantage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Summing Up The title of this wrap-up and the one that accompanied this month's original column basically just deletes "Wikileaks." The original title was my mistake.... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 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
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
responsible for the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs, biologics (biotech products derived from living sources such as cells), over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, nutritional... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 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
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
corruption, which increases managerial credibility. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more widespread assurance of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: 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
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Latham (2009), and call for further academic research to examine the full range of goal setting's effects. We reiterate our original claim that goal setting, like a potent medication, can produce both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
toward the reduction of principal. Third, lenders can transfer the mortgage-holder's status from "owner" to "renter." Often the owner has so little equity in the house anyway that the lender is in View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
regenerate the "industrial commons"? What do you think? Original Article A new book, Producing Prosperity , by profs. Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, argues that a manufacturing renaissance is critical to the process-oriented... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
differences suggest that firms need to compete differently as they enter markets around the world. Q: You make the point that it is easier for most of us to understand the type of grape we like (Merlot) than... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
because corruption had destroyed her hopes for her country and her son’s future. “People in poor countries are not resigned to corruption, they actively despise it,” Baker says. “It is rooted in the weak... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
customers. The model illustrates that these findings can be rationalized if (i) misbehavior on the part of the exporter is of little concern to importers, and (ii) local banks in importing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual framework showing the interplay between the multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Mar 2012
- Article
Choosing the United States
A location decision is, in many respects, a referendum on a nation's competitiveness. When a company decides, say, to build a new plant in China rather than in the United States, it is effectively voting on the question View Details