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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

01 Mar 2008
News

Centennial Goes YouTube

never encountered hostility from fellow students. To supplement individual recollections, the project’s steering committee has selected a number of alumni and faculty for oral history interviews. In some, youthful experiences foreshadow... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

how research can benefit from cross-University collaboration." While Bazerman thinks that overt bias against individuals or groups is less of a problem than it was a couple of decades ago, "that does not mean we've solved problems of inequality." "Someone could have... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

economic benefits, it triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Stitching the economic and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

groups are the company's adversaries. At times, that view is justified; some regulators and advocates are indeed hostile to business. But government and nonprofit organizations will always play a role in environmental management – the... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike

teach the other side a lesson? Indeed, the American pilots could impose endless costs on the airline by simply refusing agreement and management could do the same to the pilots. Yet while the impasse continues, the fund would grow, making a cessation of View Details

Keywords: David Lax and Professor James K. Sebenius

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

administration as Bush's third term. But he and his advisers managed the political chess board brilliantly. Early on, he anticipated and defused negative criticisms by admitting to past indiscretions in his autobiography. His campaign rebutted the criticisms in a View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions, languages, and social norms. This... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

defending the right to innovate or standing up against the Government's regulatory bias. There was some feeling in this group that Microsoft was unlucky in drawing a judge who turned out to be hostile to their cause. Matt Deter's remarks... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2010
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Dare to be Different

everyone else is doing. To be an extraordinary marketer today, you have to do something extraordinary. Something different. Something that a textbook isn’t necessarily going to prescribe. You present successful brands in several categories: reverse brands, breakaway... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank;Youngme Moon; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

citizens with firm friendliness and safely lead a group with very different skill levels in unfriendly or even hostile environments.” Important read: “I fell in love with telco and media as a consultant at McKinsey. When I read The Death... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

defaming, or otherwise contributes to a hostile environment, the creation or use of an alias or any other mechanism to misrepresent or obfuscate one’s identity, or the impersonation of another user. HBS reserves the right to take any... View Details

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

many no longer had homes. Others tried to return to the West Coast, only to find that they faced hostility and violence from their neighbors. As a result, after they were freed a few years later, many internees ended up resettling in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

differences here.' They just don't mention it because there's all this research about bias and negative speech and hostile work environments. A lot of the research focusing on negative dynamics wouldn't suggest that you create more open... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

accretion or dilution to expect based on the terms of a deal. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208059 Evaluating M&A Deals—How Poison Pills Work Harvard Business School Note 208-061 The poison pill defense against... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

two-year MBA program. Glick's presentation focused on benevolent sexism. Unlike hostile sexism, which is an overt response to a perceived threat to male power, Glick said that benevolent sexism's reinforcement of the male-as-caretaker... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

should be able to do what, and who should not be able to do what? Those are hard design problems. Dan Mall On our morning commute, we catch glimpses of hostile architecture. Do the ridges or knobs on a bench render it impossible for... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

disclose exactly what we earn. Consistently across the firm’s products, we’ve been a strong top-quartile performer. In Europe, some labor leaders and government officials have called private-equity firms “asset strippers” and “locusts.” Your response? A lot of that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

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