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  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

of the current CEO, Anders Eldrup, the company had become an energy group, present in all steps of the gas and oil value chain and particular, in the EU market leader in offshore wind energy. As a developer and operator of wind farms, it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

public was further damaged recently by revelations in the Panama Papers about his stockbroker father’s offshore activities, has presided over two of them. The Scottish independence referendum in 2014 nearly resulted in Scotland’s leaving... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

began making hiking boots. The cluster later expanded into ski boots and sneakers, and drew investments from major brands like Nordica and Nike. Lead firms started offshoring production to cheaper economies like Romania and China,... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

twenty years, particularly in high tech, made the decision to move manufacturing offshore where costs are lower. You have argued that the location decision should involve much more than simple financial savings. What have these companies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

someone’s offshore account. Even bigger sums are involved in abusive transfer pricing, the otherwise legal practice — common among multinationals — of trading within an organization. As much as 60 percent of global trade’s annual $35... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

large heterogeneity in employers’ values for offshoring labor services in this market, with implications for market policies to attract new employers. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54291 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Under a carbon tariff, foreign firms with a production cost advantage adopt clean technology at a lower emissions price than domestic firms, and foreign entry can increase in emissions price when foreign firms hold this edge. Further, domestic firms conditionally View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The offshoring of consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

were paralyzed by fear of a Chinese takeover of the world. Google didn't exactly leave China or prevail in the face-off over government-banned content. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S. Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Carbon's Second Act

DM: And sometimes, those new ideas use existing models from other industries. JM: Many of the obvious techniques for storage is to actually use old reservoirs from the oil and gas activity, whether it's offshore or onshore. We have these... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

In addition to its growth in manufacturing, India began grabbing headlines in the United States a few years ago for its sudden surge as a center of offshore IT work and business process outsourcing (BPO), industries unto themselves that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

gives a brief overview of sexual harassment laws and policies in several regions of the world, including Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308096 The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875682   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Offshore Drilling Industry in 2011 Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kenneth Corts, and Joseph McElroyHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Competitiveness at Risk

economy, presumably through offshoring and the like, but American workers have fewer and more challenging options. Aren’t a lot of the problems that are damaging to US competitiveness, such as infrastructure and regulation, supposed to be... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

exempting foreign income from U.S. taxation. This could be accompanied by some bells and whistles to ensure that American firms didn't react to exemption by trying to shift profits offshore more so than they do now. Depending on these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

http://www.smi.ethz.ch/news/news/docs/ResearchAlive.pdf An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:Research in Organizational Behavior 30 (2010)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne