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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
Jamie_Hall SUMMING UP: Does West Coast Management Need Adult Supervision? There is a distinctive West Coast style of management in the United States. It is characterized by, among other things, open-minded leadership, fast...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
When they returned to Hong Kong from the United States in the 1970s to work side by side with their father, the company’s future was uncertain. Under the brothers’ guidance, Li & Fung today is a global...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
services are becoming more tradable, and that creates opportunities for the United States. But let’s not kid ourselves. These services will also find themselves in a run for their lives. Indian companies, for instance, are already doing...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Returns is a way for me to state my deep conviction that any organization, even a tax collection agency, can serve its stakeholders at higher levels than it ever imagined — if its leaders resolutely and passionately set out to do so. What...
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- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
with maintains the largest repository of biometric information within the United States. It contains over 200 million unique identities, and that number is growing. And we perform over 300,000 transactions a day. “GMP drove home for me...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
generated by units that operate in competitive, customer-driven markets: Executive Education and Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). Another 22 percent of operating revenue was derived from current-use gifts and endowment...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
in his path. Langford, 65, is far too genteel and affable for that, as anyone who knows him will tell you—and plenty of people in Georgia know Jim Langford (MBA 1984), whose family roots in the state stretch back to 1853. But those same...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business manuscripts can be used to study the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
article in Harvard Business Review, HBS professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih point out that the Kindle 2 e-reader was designed by Amazon’s Lab126 unit in California. But the vast majority of its components are made in China, Taiwan, and...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Capitol Hill. The Case for More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that targeted government regulation of financial markets has worked in the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. “From the founding of the republic until...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19,...
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- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
enforcement, especially in light of growing concerns about market power in the United States. “Are there steps we could take to mitigate dynamic market power? You might be concerned if you looked at a market and realized that, due to...
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- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
population covered) than any other country. And things don't seem to be getting any better. There are a large number of examples of various approaches to the problem extant in the world, nearly all of which include greater government involvement than in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
new meaning to the notion of shared value,” says Palandjian. “They provide a structure to unite an uncommon set of partners— government, investors, philanthropists, and nonprofits—in pursuit of a common goal.” (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
roots of each country’s financial systems back to Alexander Hamilton and argue that while Canada has preserved a Hamiltonian financial tradition, the United States has favored the populist Jacksonian...
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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
dealings with one another. To assign human rights obligations to MNEs and their managers risks undermining this ideal. The paper situates this argument in relation to the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework by...
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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the...
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- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr says. Patent Effects To determine whether an increase in H-1B visas led to an increase in innovation, the researchers looked at data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, examining patent...
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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-107.pdf Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their...
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