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- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
faced with a situation in which a decision to move jobs overseas to reduce costs and preserve profit performance appeared to be alienating workers, customers, and even the president of the United States. Harley-Davidson had long been held... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
stimulate debate about important issues in a community whose media were controlled at the time by one family with one point of view. It got me on a list prepared by an alumnus (and ignored by the person to whom he sent it, the President... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Roundtable, working with President Obama and congressional leaders on solutions to restore the industry, including the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Described by a fellow CEO as having a “banker body, preacher soul,” Davis believes that bankers... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the hypothesis that black... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
was his foray into energy conservation and baby products in the 1970s and '80s, followed by Cap Toys, offering toys and candy, in the 1980s and '90s. The latter venture, which produced the uniquely American and insanely popular SpinPop... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
immigrants. “Us vs. them” rhetoric framed diversity as an impediment to American greatness, and—consistent with historical racial and socioeconomic fractures—global trade and immigration, the increasing presence of white women and people... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
and others dismissing it as little more than a hiccup-or even celebrating it as a favorable development-in the progress of American capitalism. Despite numerous claims in popular venues that high inequality has slowed growth, precipitated... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
trusts like Standard Oil were busted by President Theodore Roosevelt. They were the Big Tech of their day. Where is the outrage today?” Facebook should be broken up, he added. Wildebeest proclaimed, “The best approach is to break up the... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
November 20, 2018 Journal of the American College of Cardiology Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory By: Reed, Grant W., Michael L. Tushman, and Samir R. Kapadia Abstract—Operational efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
chart the rise of American power and the victory of neoliberalism, that do not lead to the “end of history” and the Washington Consensus? "Ideas and policies that originated in the West were transplanted to developing world contexts, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
(fracking) promised an abundance of accessible, cheap, domestically produced natural gas, but the cost to the environment remained a point of debate. As incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama faced Republican opponent Mitt Romney in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
meeting surges in capacity and to explain how they derived that estimate. Transparency as a solution often fails because of a lack of enforcement or overly complex regulations. For example, when President Biden issued an executive order... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
international franchising opportunities and a debt recapitalization. By early 2016, Sun was looking to the company’s next phase of growth while handing management of her executive team to BrightStar’s President and COO. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
and CEO, and that salaries of the executive leadership team, senior vice presidents, and directors/vice presidents would be cut by 30 percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent, respectively. In a letter to employees, Aon CEO Greg Case announced... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Others With Truthful Statements.) And it has certainly wormed its way into the political spectrum. The research paper Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others opens with excerpts from a January 21, 1998, PBS NewsHour... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
from downsizing the drivers' positions? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413061-PDF-ENG Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC Froot, Kenneth A., Lauren Cohen, and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-031 Kishore Karunakaran,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
U.S. market in the late 1960s, Firestone, along with most of the major American tire manufacturers, suffered costly setbacks and lost significant market share. By 1988, Firestone had been acquired by Japanese competitor Bridgestone, and... View Details