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- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is how property insurance companies...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
for auto parts online. Finally, the company is moving its internal processes, such as billing and inventory, online. GM estimates that each of these four undertakings will save an extraordinary amount of money and enable the company to View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
strengthen their virtuous cycles, undermine those of rivals, and even use them to turn competitors' strengths into weaknesses. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/01/how-to-design-a-winning-business-model/ar/1# Share Issuance and Factor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Business School professors who have signed the petition, and asked them to share why they openly oppose the Executive Order. Here are their initial responses. David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business...
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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
average patient of medium severity in this ED. We propose that the improved performance comes from a reduction in social loafing and a more distributed utilization of shared resources. These benefits outweigh the expected efficiency gains...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
regarding herbal patents. (They explain their findings in the paper Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms.) A win/win situation is one in which the patentee successfully makes...
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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
has fallen behind in the competition for a share of the "commons." Peter Sebregondi commented that "companies aim to have the least possible ownership of the capital or assets involved in the value chain," but points...
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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
beliefs that they share are different.” Bowlweevils, injecting a political note into a discussion intended to deal with economics, argued that Germany has no model for dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers. As he put it, “Germany ......
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by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
the eighteenth-century pottery and china manufacturer; H.J. Heinz, who started the famous food company in 1869; and Marshall Field, the late nineteenth-century Chicago retailer. Below, in Part Two, Koehn shares her thoughts on how three...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology that fuels the shared economy is hype? What happened to the "innovation, disruption, technology" dividend? What do you think? To Read More: Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress,...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
“inclusive capitalism”? Bower and Paine: In the book we mention terms like inclusive capitalism, but we don’t yet have a label for the more resilient form of capitalism that we have in mind. Certainly it needs to be inclusive in the sense of producing View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
correcting this largely leave us with a frustrating sense that there is every reason to think that the industry will continue to grow and prosper without significantly affecting the quality of leadership in the world. Our readers View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
political ideology that is xenophobic and isolationist; and the splitting of Americans into antagonistic ideological camps instead of finding common ground upon which to build. What's needed, she continues, is an agenda built on core American principles that Widens...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
MacCulloch Publication:Chap. 6 in Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics, 309-355. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download chapter: http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/BehavioralPolicy2007/chapter6.pdf...
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Sean Silverthorne