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- 2012
- Working Paper
FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere
By: Ryann Manning
This article explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Acquisition; Experience and Expertise; Globalization; Blogs
Manning, Ryann. "FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-084, March 2012.
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called... View Details
- August 1987
- Article
Export Promotion as a Development Strategy
By: J. J. Rotemberg
Rotemberg, J. J. "Export Promotion as a Development Strategy." Journal of Development Economics 26, no. 2 (August 1987): 343–355.
- January 2010 (Revised March 2010)
- Background Note
A Note on Direct Selling in Developing Economies
By: Michael Chu and Joel Emilio Bregman Segre
Informal and formal direct selling play a particularly important role in developing countries characterized by markets with limited retail sectors. This note explores the practice of direct selling for the company, the sales person, and the consumer, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Developing Countries and Economies; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Sales
Chu, Michael, and Joel Emilio Bregman Segre. "A Note on Direct Selling in Developing Economies." Harvard Business School Background Note 310-068, January 2010. (Revised March 2010.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper offers a longitudinal and descriptive analysis of the strategies of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations
Jones, Geoffrey. "Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-076, March 2010.
- Web
Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity
Action Plan Developing the Plan One-Year Action Plan Update Re: Srikant Datar, Terrill Drake, Jan Hammond & Brian Kenny 23 SEP 2021 Dean Srikant Datar discusses the School’s Advancing Racial Equity action plan at the one-year... View Details
- 2022
- Other Unpublished Work
Industrial Policy in a New Global Reality: Towards a More Location—and Sector—Driven Approach
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Emiliano Duch
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Emiliano Duch. "Industrial Policy in a New Global Reality: Towards a More Location—and Sector—Driven Approach." Private Sector Development Blog, World Bank, July 2022.
- February 1997 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Mexico (A): From Stabilized Development to Debt Crisis
By: Huw Pill
Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy from 1945 to 1982. Describes the import-substituting industrialization strategy pursued in the aftermath of World War II. Discusses briefly why this failed in the late 1960s and then analyzes the change of strategy toward... View Details
Pill, Huw. "Mexico (A): From Stabilized Development to Debt Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 797-096, February 1997. (Revised February 2002.)
- August 2024
- Case
Quickmart: Sustaining Growth in a Challenging Economic Environment
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Kuria Kamau
In July 2023, Peter Kang’iri, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Quickmart, Kenya’s second-largest retail chain, sat in his Nairobi office reviewing the company’s first half financial results before the weekly executive committee (EXCO) meeting. The company was in... View Details
- Research Summary
Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value
In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value... View Details
- September 2007
- Article
Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber
Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
Maurer, Noel, and Stephen Haber. "Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico." Journal of Economic History 67, no. 3 (September 2007): 551–581.
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
encourage productivity, collaboration, and innovation. "But you can protect those gains if you remember the intention and motivation that sparked this movement in the first place." As economic clouds form on the horizon, these efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 1974
- Book
Agribusiness Management for Developing Countries--Latin America
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Leonard M. Wilson, James E. Austin and et al.
Goldberg, Ray A., Leonard M. Wilson, James E. Austin, and et al. Agribusiness Management for Developing Countries--Latin America. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1974.
- 2001
- Article
The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and regions? This paper considers existing literature on measuring the... View Details
Bresnahan, Timothy F., and Shane Greenstein. "The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies." Journal of Evolutionary Economics 11 (2001): 95–118.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World
By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang
Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful
of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international
consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic
growth of... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona, and David Yang. "Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-061, March 2024.
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis
By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States
Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-039, September 2010.
- Fall 2012
- Article
Marketing and Public Policy: Transformative Research in Developing Markets
By: C. Shultz, Rohit Deshpandé, Bettina Cornwell, A. Ekici, P. Kothandaraman, M. Peterson, S. Shapiro, D. Talukdar and A. Veeck
Developing markets are a challenge for researchers who study them and for governments, business leaders, and citizens who strive to improve the quality of life in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on consumers... View Details
Shultz, C., Rohit Deshpandé, Bettina Cornwell, A. Ekici, P. Kothandaraman, M. Peterson, S. Shapiro, D. Talukdar, and A. Veeck. "Marketing and Public Policy: Transformative Research in Developing Markets." Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 31, no. 2 (Fall 2012).
- October 2004
- Article
FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets
By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek
The purpose of this paper is to examine the various links among foreign direct investment, financial markets and growth. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents have two choices: they can work for the foreign company in... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Cost; Wealth; Investment Return; Knowledge
Alfaro, Laura, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. "FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets." Journal of International Economics 64, no. 1 (October 2004): 89–112.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle
A premier economist of the twentieth century and a founder of neoclassical thought, Irving Fisher was also an active participant in the field of economic forecasting. Fisher made theoretical contributions to the understanding of economic fluctuations, popularized the... View Details