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- 29 May 2019
- News
Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government
the solution to our political problems is also the solution to our economic problems. And I can sum it up in one word: integrity.” He offered graduates five ways that they could lead solutions to the current turmoil, including being...
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- 16 Mar 2017
- News
The CEO Who's Turning the Global Development Movement on Its Head
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
in markets for labor fueled by dramatic improvements in communication. Those with a global, macro economic view tended to regard these developments as long overdue. Those concerned about the psychological...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic...
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Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system,...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
Incentive Plan By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/ August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
more important, Choudhury says, as people increasingly choose to live and work close to where they grew up, often foregoing economic opportunity to do so. “Vacation flexibility means being able to go to your manager and say this is when I...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Leeuwenhof, the majestic estate of Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel. With the splendor of Table Mountain above and the beauty of Table Bay below, Morkel welcomed his guests to Cape Town, which he described as "a region of great economic...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Quelch in Vietnam
HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a reception in Hanoi in September. The prime minister briefed Quelch on his country’s economic situation, outlined its ongoing...
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- 23 Jun 2020
- News
Bridging Nigeria's Infrastructure Gap
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on avoiding overuse of facts and...
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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanzcuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a...
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Heterogeneous Plants;
Productivity;
Policy Distortions;
Wages;
Equality and Inequality;
Resource Allocation;
Macroeconomics
Alfaro, Laura, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk. "Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-086, May 2007. (Revised May 2008, August 2008. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14060, June 2008)
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a...
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- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well lead the country into serious...
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- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the country’s private sector;...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event...
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- 1998
- Chapter
Wage Bargaining, Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in the Netherlands
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Anne Wren, Bob Hancke and David Soskice