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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Clusters
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-043, December 2009. (Revised April 2014. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15576, December 2009)
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
research had taken root. Over the past 35 years, examination of social and environmental influences on creativity has become increasingly vigorous, with broad implications for the psychology of human performance, and with applications to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
banking and would result in the 10th-largest bank in the world. Discusses the main sources of value creation from international expansion and acquisitions in the commercial banking industry. Also, highlights the barriers View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Broad productively support? What happened when the Broad outgrew its physical space? Altshuler and Golub knew that the Broad had made tremendous strides in the past year. It had minimized barriers and attracted many young scientists who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas” We classified what we heard as ten potential disruptors of the global market system: the functioning of the global financial system, barriers to world trade,... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Entrepreneurs must overcome many barriers to get discoveries to market, but academic researchers face an additional one they might not realize: themselves. Academics tend View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
consumer-driven health care system if they do not innovate. But, as indicated in the complimentary letters from Aetna's president and Wellpoint's CEO received by the Harvard Business Review, some of the insurers are not barriers View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
true? As it turned out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors. In a recent research paper Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore this and other hidden barriers to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies' market prices. More seriously, however, the claim simply ignores the fact that a lack of cash need not be a barrier to compensating executives. Rather than issuing options directly View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
Schering-Plough filed a lawsuit accusing Upsher-Smith of violating Schering-Plough's patent. The companies reached an out-of-court settlement in which Upsher-Smith agreed to delay its entry into the market,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
export-driven economy to one that is driven by consumers. Like no other company, Alibaba has succeeded in making China—a country with countless internal barriers to trade—seem... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because it would be hard to create View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
much an alternative as investment banks has led to students asking more fundamental questions." Thomas said students are finding new ways to use their expertise as the workplace changes and the... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
"someone else." All around the world, as trade barriers continue to fall, and capital markets become more integrated, restructuring is becoming a daily event, and every manager can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
in an integrated fashion; and barriers to learning, including tacit knowledge and murky intellectual property rights, which can slow the pace of scientific advance. A more suitable anatomy would include... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
state colleges and universities for families with incomes below $125,000. "A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing" Such a plan has obvious appeal. It would reduce... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
It is therefore unusually difficult to detect any Google abuse of market power; Google can use its market power without leaving a trail of publicly available documents. Api Terms & Conditions As A Further View Details