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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from...
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by Kim Girard
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM, for example, while it still has more than 300,000 employees worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu Abstract—We study the impact of social...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Periodical:Economic Journal 117 (2007): F189-F217 Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
building an electrical component. This information instructs local engineers and other local skilled workers concerning key elements of the firm's technology. The reforms we studied appear to be effective because they were sustained,...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
management policy, which aimed at assuring a more secure environment for business. By the early twentieth century, however, the focus had shifted, from business to labor. As a result of industrialization, a great many workers had moved...
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by Laura Linard
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
in the economy in order to conserve foreign exchange, and to allocate the limited resources available at the time to a few sectors that could provide critical basic commodities, such as chemicals and steel. The early intervention, under...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
may not be illegal, but can cause enormous amounts of reputational damage.” A good code can also help workers do their jobs better. Most employees want to follow the rules and do the right thing, but may not understand how to comply with...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Experiment By: Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian Abstract—When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at how the importation of highly...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination...
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Sean Silverthorne