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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

several articles published in the Global Competitiveness Report. Her research focuses on the relationship between clusters and the performance of firms, regions, and countries; the agglomeration patterns of innovative firms; and country... View Details
  • 2010
  • Report

Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh and Do Hong Hanh
The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal for an economic strategy to enable Vietnam to reach a higher level of sustainable growth.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Labor; Industry Clusters; Performance Capacity; Performance Productivity; Competitive Strategy
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

research in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and the US indicates increasing pressure on these basic resources - and worsening inability of governments to self-fund investment in advance. Hence, there are... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Study Results Author:Robert Simons Abstract This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design variables: span of control and span of accountability. Clustering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2023
  • News

Step Change

working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between the US and Egyptian View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

Francesca Gino, Michael W. Toffel, and Stephanie van SiceHarvard Business School Case 912-030 This case examines negotiations between a company and government over natural resources. The Fijian government... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

better economic outcomes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54920 September–October 2018 Harvard Business Review Navigating Talent Hot Spots By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation clusters like San... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

learning and governance process. Implications for organization and leadership development and corporate governance are discussed. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine manufacture was clustered in Denmark... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

other people without considering his or her past interactions. In contrast, proactive testing tests everyone who has come into contact with an infected person in order to quarantine a cluster in a network instead of merely an individual... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Conflict Resolution 52, no. 6 (December 2008): 795-819.  (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-040) Abstract Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

disappointedly low. Their ability, and motivation, to locate value-added activities in the most attractive locations means that they strengthen clustering rather than encourage dispersion of knowledge. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

leading government officials to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth. Business is caught in a vicious circle. A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

1957-1966, the World Bank and IMF-led structural reforms of the 1980s, and the continuation of reforms after the first democratic elections in 1992. Details Ghana's economic and political context and cluster performance in 2001 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate headquarters, earning it the accolade "Minnesota Miracle." Starting in 2003, however,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

and Galanz, which has brought microwave ovens to millions of Chinese consumers previously considered too poor to buy such an appliance. What’s more, the essentials of development can be “pulled in” by market-creating innovators—and over time, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman