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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
themselves. Now more than ever, American society needs this kind of exchange of ideas.” Bill added, “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent.” Jesteeleconsult commented, “Looking the other way in times of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic performance affects View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
closed, the conversation continued in the main Zoom room, and then folks exchanged phone numbers with one another to keep chatting. I also feared that participants might not generate ideas. While we focus five weeks on hands-on techniques... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
markets, Tynan adds. With water exchanges already in place in some areas, “you are [starting] to see it more on a local level,” he says. The event concluded with some directions for change. Panelists talked about the need to prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
until the early 1990s, when we realized that the entire environment was important, particularly the personal connection between our partners and the customer. Regular customers are known by name, and the partners remember how they like their beverage; there's an View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He frequently comments in the news media on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the choice of contracting structure has important strategic implications. The Globe: The China Rules: A Practical Guide for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
through which U.S. doctors get their first jobs and auctions through which the Federal Communications Commission sells licenses for parts of the radio broadcast spectrum. They have also created market-like allocation procedures that involve neither prices nor an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
engaging in the culture and learning to be vulnerable." Accepting one's vulnerabilities is a primary objective of ALD, which requires participants to work together in six-person groups. "It's more than a knowledge transfer from HBS to individuals; it's also... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
sign of a healthy board, but that's not how the market interprets it," says Khanna. "The caveat," he adds, "is that prices on the Chinese stock exchanges don't always move the way we'd hope they would in response to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
crises, and exchange rate crises in Argentina; and Uganda and the Washington Consensus. The second module ("Competing Institutional Models") studies how the U.S. and other rich countries have developed institutional structures permitting... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Business School Case 215-020 Dogs of the Dow This case describes the Dogs of the Dow investment strategy, value investing, and using dividend yields as a means to determine intrinsic value. It also describes exchange traded notes and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory and tax incentives. The book... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility, and exchange rate movements in emerging markets. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman