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- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
of us should pay serious attention to. I truly believe business contributes to the prosperity of humanity, and is more important to the continued prosperity of humanity than any other institution. Therefore,... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
prosperity it lost over the recent past. The difficulties will not disappear—much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa, and there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
energy business, for instance. In the end, the class did not come up with a clear solution—because there isn't one. Societies persuade institutions to solve one set of problems. If the institutions are successful, more prosperity is... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
unemployment, but such measures are needed when lending money to a government with a very poor track record in managing the government budget for the prosperity of its citizens. Nor are those measures the cause of the inability of Greece... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
now formally elected as head of state, considers an economic strategy to meet Rwanda's current challenges and increase the country's prosperity over the next decade. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
many times in the past, it will prosper by creating a distinctly Japanese approach. If you have read my other work, you know that I believe that the U.S. is far from perfect. For example, many U.S. companies suffer from a short time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
have it all figured out except the money." I'm not talking about rapacious financial manipulators making trading profits like Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. I'm talking about using the tools of finance to build subways, water treatment plants, bridges, efficient roads—all... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
trying rush to market, but it is not how great policies get formulated. Like many, many Americans, I am the grandchild of immigrants. Our country’s growth and prosperity have depended on immigrants. I recently published a book (Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
in the north of Spain, physically separated from it by the Pyrenees Mountains. Presents the history of the region-highly prosperous at the turn of the 20th century but nearing bankruptcy by the 1950s. By 2001, the Basque GDP per capita... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55235 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
for auto parts online. Finally, the company is moving its internal processes, such as billing and inventory, online. GM estimates that each of these four undertakings will save an extraordinary amount of money and enable the company to View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology that fuels the shared economy is hype? What happened to the "innovation, disruption, technology" dividend? What do you think? To Read More: Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
earth. Listen carefully to a friend over a cup of tea. I cannot imagine, now, a prosperity that will be based on smoke, mirrors, silicon, electrons, and tiny fingers." Many argued from the proposition that "it all depends."... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
in the prosperous country, stimulates demand for products and services, and creates as many jobs as it fills, thereby not increasing unemployment. In the US, as the argument goes, it could also help address the economic shortfall in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer. The prosperity that began on the coast spread inland in the first decade of the new century. Q: What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
correcting this largely leave us with a frustrating sense that there is every reason to think that the industry will continue to grow and prosper without significantly affecting the quality of leadership in the world. Our readers shared... View Details