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April 1996 (Revised November 1997)
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Background and Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment

By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague

A brief history of foreign direct investment (FDI) is explored, emphasizing conflicts, developments in the legal framework governing FDI, and international agreements and nonbinding principles formulated to resolve disputes brought in by FDI. Propositions provide a... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs to be done and aligning your business’s resources, processes, and profit formula. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by August 28 $1,850 Certificate Design... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

do I get there?" For their study, O'Mahony and Bechky surveyed two strikingly different groups: high-tech contractors and film crew members. While roles in the film industry tend to be more fixed—a key grip on one project will most... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

first is that profit and social good are antithetical. It’s easy to understand why people think that way, especially with companies like Volkswagen (VW), Wells Fargo, and Cambridge Analytica getting enormous visibility for their... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

29 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

there may be no reason for them to interpret this as a gift or concession from the employer. More likely, they just assume that their expectations were wrong, and $4 is 'the going rate' for this type of work." So paying more elicited... View Details

Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette

01 Jun 2024
News

From Chalkboards to Chatbots

Artwork/animation by Greg Meeson/hitandrunmedia.com; shutterstock.com Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, becoming an integral part of how we live, work, and interact. It is therefore critical for current and... View Details

07 Nov 2023
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Love and Money

Carol Lee Heilemann. I'm in class of 83. You alluded to several websites, and I was wondering if there are certain ones that are really well known, like Match.com and eHarmony? RG: People ask all the time, what's the best site or what's... View Details

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the firm prior to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

particular class session can lead to richer discussions with a higher degree of personal relevance. Knowing which students lack extensive background in the subject can be equally important, as comprehension... View Details

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

to him for their education. “What an opportunity it is,” he reflected in an interview, “to have the privilege of being a teacher, the greatest of all vocations, for it keeps us anchored in the world of youth, ideas, and research. It... View Details

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

don't know we have can be exciting, efficient, and energizing. Or it can be fearsome, enervating, and subject to mistakes ranging from foolish to fatal. That's the sense... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Mar 2010
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Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did." We asked Tedlow to discuss how denial can cripple a company, and what can be done about it. Martha Lagace: What is the meaning of denial as you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

25 Jul 2013
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Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

be rejected." The results are enough to spook anyone who has ever sent off a résumé or college application: not only were the studies' subjects unable to counteract this correspondence bias, they... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by August 28 $1,850 Certificate Complete any... View Details

12 Jan 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora

plan remained the same, but being granted admission at HBS served as a confidence booster, especially in professional and business-related matters. It also made me ask myself regularly: how can I use this time to prepare View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

advantages of the "choreography" method from the point of view of students' learning. Concludes with a description of that method and some tips on how to use it. 1984, rev. 1985 Hints for Case Teaching by Benson P. Shapiro Provides practical advice as View Details

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

freedom of individual choice should always trump government intervention but, perhaps more so than in other developed countries, this sentiment enjoys widespread support in America. The government should not be able to mandate that I buy... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

the story is the same. The threat is real, the costs will be large, and we must act. But what we must do is well understood: Reform entitlements and the tax code to spend less, raise more, or both. Fixing... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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