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- 1995
- Chapter
Global Competition and the Localization of Competitive Advantage
By: M. E. Porter and Rebecca E. Wayland
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
another. Tire executives apparently assumed that the bias tire would continue as the dominant design, and this assumption was enacted through their company's well-honed new product development process which had produced a steady flow...
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- August 2013
- Case
The Republic of the Philippines: The Next Asian Tiger?
By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Carol Dominguez and Tully Moss
The Philippines, for long a laggard in Asia, is now growing fast in 2012, with a positive current account balance. While it still exports services, it is increasing its assembly of manufactured products and trying to increase mining. For these activities, however, it...
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Keywords:
Country Strategy;
Asia;
Outsourcing;
Macroeconomics;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Country;
Asia;
Philippines
Vietor, Richard H.K., Carol Dominguez, and Tully Moss. "The Republic of the Philippines: The Next Asian Tiger?" Harvard Business School Case 714-004, August 2013.
- March 2011
- Supplement
Valuation of AirThread Connections, Faculty Spreadsheet Supplement (Brief Case)
By: Erik Stafford and Joel L. Heilprin
- December 2023
- Case
Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The case profiles the development of cluster-based economic development activities in Catalonia, one of Spain's most prosperous regions, over the last thirty years. It describes the evolution of these activities between 1990 and 2022 and puts these changes into the...
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Ketels, Christian H.M. "Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?" Harvard Business School Case 724-404, December 2023.
- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry
By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson
Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent...
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- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Climate;
Entrepreneur;
Development;
Startup;
Climate Change;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Entrepreneurship;
Green Technology;
Government Administration;
City;
Miami
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Miami's Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play." Harvard Business School Case 324-119, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
efficient, and customer focused. It also enables faster response to shifts in the market—something especially important as innovation continues to flow globally, rapidly, and often from unknown sources. Most important, this framework...
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- May 2020
- Article
Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
By: Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk
This paper shows that contemporary population-level heterogeneity in risk aversion, time preference, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and trust partly traces back to the structure of the migration patterns of our very early ancestors. To document...
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Keywords:
Migration Patterns;
Behavioral Economics;
Preferences;
Microeconomics;
Demography;
Decision Making;
Risk and Uncertainty;
History;
Global Range
Becker, Anke, Benjamin Enke, and Armin Falk. "Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 319–323.
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level...
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- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
of intervention ranging from increased job training to incentives to those organizations willing to restrict the flow of jobs. Dan Barr's comments suggest that the issues...
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by James Heskett
- January 1, 1980
- Article
Strategies of Multinational Firms: New Third World Multinationals
By: L. T. Wells Jr.
- 2011
- Chapter
The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities
By: Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin
Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and...
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Seelos, Christian, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana, and M. Tina Dacin. "The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities." In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood, 333–363. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving...
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- August 1974 (Revised November 1983)
- Case
National Cranberry Cooperative
Requires an analysis of both the process flows and the production control system used in a cranberry receiving plant. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Miller, Jeffrey G. "National Cranberry Cooperative." Harvard Business School Case 675-014, August 1974. (Revised November 1983.)
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and...
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by Karen Mills
- June 2013
- Case
Comprosa
By: Jim Sharpe and Jose Luis Barbero
A Spanish manufacturer of packaging films has successfully returned to break even and is considering options to attain sustainable profitability.
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Keywords:
Turnaround;
Turnarounds;
Distressed Debt;
Private Equity;
Cash Flow Analysis;
Supplier Relationship;
Supply Chain Management;
Unions;
Global Competitiveness;
Leadership And Managing People;
Sales Force Management;
Sales Compensation;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Global Strategy;
Salesforce Management;
Cash Flow;
Chemical Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Spain
Sharpe, Jim, and Jose Luis Barbero. "Comprosa." Harvard Business School Case 813-177, June 2013.
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
flow in terms of what areas are hot or not. Biotechnology was very hot in the 80s and 90s, and then there was a long profound downturn. In the last 18 months it’s becoming really hot again with...
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- 2018
- Book
Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust
By: Ray A. Goldberg
The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic...
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Keywords:
Food;
System;
Global Range;
Health;
Environmental Sustainability;
Development Economics;
Partners and Partnerships;
Public Opinion;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Article
Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument
Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from...
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Keywords:
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Performance;
Policy;
Ownership;
Selection and Staffing;
Business Headquarters;
Geography;
Framework
Becker, Bo, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rudiger Fahlenbrach. "Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument ." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46, no. 4 (August 2011): 907–942.