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- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and...
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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen, deadly violence...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
(again) American political leaders have repeatedly tried and failed to stem spiraling drug costs. US President Donald Trump said in May that he expected drugmakers to voluntarily cut their costs, providing few details. However, a Wells...
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- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by...
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- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
School Case 719-002 Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
sustainability leaders—like clothing manufacturer Patagonia, a business we admire—don't recognize the primacy of climate change. Instead, it includes climate in a basket of equally weighted issues, like protecting oceans, forests, or fisheries. But that's misguided:...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value." Even if the Trump rules hold up, they cannot provide the full accounting of prices and outcomes the health care system needs. For that, the United States...
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- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
important for any company doing business in multiple countries. While it is simplistic to suggest that there is no country effect at play in determining the success of companies—Deshpandé and Farley do not make that contention—their work does suggest that corporate...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Luce's magazines often resonated with readers, allowing him to quickly trump competitors such as Newsweek, Forbes, The New Yorker, Esquire, and National Geographic. Yet Luce was also criticized for occasionally using his imaginative style...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
and Donald Trump attracted lots of attention. Here are the year’s 10 most popular research-related stories, columns, and op-eds on Working Knowledge: How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers Thales Teixeira studies...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
several years while fellow billionaire Warren Buffett paid $1.8 million in taxes for 2015. “The decision to accelerate that dividend was driven in large part by the executives’ preferences” The issue is not that Trump knew about tax...
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by Roberta Holland
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,...
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- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
disappeared, Treasury quickly ramped up its issuance of money-like claims. However, as the anticipated debt burden grew, concerns about rollover risk eventually trumped the desire to cater to money demand, and maturity structure was once...
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- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
the Trump Administration authorized $7 billion in disaster loans for small businesses affected by COVID-19. The program helps businesses in states that have declared emergency status borrow as much as much as $2 million and repay it over...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
individuals who (with a few exceptions, like the Donald Trumps of the world) prefer to fly under the radar, even while investing significant amounts of their own capital in various startups. So it’s been hard to study them, and the work...
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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World...
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by William R. Kerr
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
contract.” Of course this leads to the question of whether or not this sort of thing can be contracted. Should boards specify limits on CEO activism? What do you think? Original Column A series of recent events triggered the question at the top of this column. They...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. These findings are presented in the working paper When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation, coauthored by HKS Professor...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
unfairness in terms of compensation, you are likely to move on. It’s an important element that could trump the continuity of the firm.” It’s interesting, she continues, because you might think that founders would care about legacy and the...
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