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  • November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

The Big 3 Roar Back

By: William W. George
The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details
Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Michigan
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  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

811-106 Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2019
  • Chapter

Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firm; Economic Geography; Agglomeration; Location Fundamentals; Agglomeration Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Economics
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  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

case details Musk’s management style, product innovation, and his impact on investor confidence, market valuations, and public perception. It also poses the question of evaluating whether Musk’s extraordinary ambition and multitiered involvement across View Details
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Zealand's Marine Cluster (2009) Nicaragua The Nicaraguan Coffee Cluster (2006) Nigeria Lagos ICT Services Cluster (2017) Nollywood — The Nigerian Film View Details
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Frameworks - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

of successive upgrading, in which the business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways of competing. Clusters A cluster is a geographic concentration of related companies,... View Details
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Frameworks & Key Concepts Frameworks & Key Concepts Drivers of Competitiveness The Diamond Model View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

In 2000, Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly established the Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness to provide a home for his research. Research & Scholarship Michael Porter’s early work was on industry competition... View Details
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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Data Data Resources U.S. Cluster Mapping The Cluster Mapping Project assembles a detailed picture of the... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

earlier. Worse, he knew that mobile phones, which were also being made outside the United States, would start stealing business away from digital cameras. "Much of the camera technology was invented in the United States, but US companies gave it all up," says... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • April 2023
  • Article

Perceptions Related to Engaging in Non-driving Activities in an Automated Vehicle While Commuting: A Text Mining Approach

By: Yilun Xing, Linda Ng Boyle, Raffaella Sadun, John D. Lee, Orit Shaer and Andrew Kun
Automated vehicles (AVs) offer human operators the opportunity to participate in non-driving activities while on the move. In this study, we examined and compared drivers' perception of non-driving activities in two driving modes: highly AVs in the future and current... View Details
Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Surveys; Auto Industry
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  • December 2014
  • Article

Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

By: Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung
Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Strategy; Value Creation; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Microeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
  • March–April 2012
  • Article

The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure

By: Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch and Adam Tatarynowicz
This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both... View Details
Keywords: Culture; System; Relationships; Globalization; Industry Clusters; Information; Networks; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) View Details
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Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Research & Applications We believe that economic development should be... View Details
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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Competitiveness of State... Competitiveness of States & Regions Prosperity... View Details