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01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: Frozen Assets

and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food sales spiked at the outset of... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

March 2015
Case

Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

By: Michael Chu, Vincent Dessain and Kristina Maslauskaite

An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investment; Low Cost Private Schools; Investment Fund; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Transition; Investment; Development Economics; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; Education; Education Industry; Asia; Africa

March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Inequality in Brazil

By: Aldo Musacchio

This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Brazil

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Shanghai's use of GDP growth targets, the case discusses Shanghai's past successes and failures. Specifically, the case describes the enormous economic growth that Shanghai has... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
Case

ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Development Economics; Poverty; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Kenya; Africa

February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in Boston, Massachusetts

By: Laura Alfaro, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Zeke Gillman

This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Boston, Massachusetts while giving a broad history of the city and surrounding area. View Details

Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Economic Growth; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; Boston; Massachusetts

March 2000 (Revised May 2002)
Case

Korea: On the Back of a Tiger

Describes the development strategy followed by Korea under the leadership of Park Chung Hee as well as the reform efforts embarked on by his successors. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Public Administration Industry; South Korea

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Books

government subsidies for banks, and support for entrepreneurial culture, affect this industry and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in emerging economies. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

unintentionally undermined the intended admissions policy—led to the elimination of Boston’s walk zones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52937 May 2017 American Economic Review Stable and Strategy-Proof... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

development. Detailed historical economic and social data allow an evaluation of policy results. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706497 Inniskillin and the Globalization of Icewine... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2014
News

Fostering connections with business leaders in India and South Asia

world's population. HBS faculty and student interest has heightened in particular with India's growth as an economic power. Under Raina's direction, the IRC has furthered the development of more than 90 case... View Details

05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

avoid approaches that could undermine one another (e.g., economic incentives crowding out intrinsic incentives). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51300 Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

steadily risen across the company. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management/an/R1312D-PDF-ENG August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2003
News

Mark Fuller

was not immune to the effects of recent worldwide economic sluggishness. “We had some sobering moments in 2001 and 2002,” admits Fuller. But grappling with slower growth “made everyone a lot smarter.” After... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

opportunities for mutual learning. A step-change in the availability of data on clusters and cluster policies has enabled new research approaches. Clusters are shown to have a close association with regional economic performance and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

changed significantly has been the result of our living in what has been described as a "radioactive neighborhood," that is, a region with a contagious economic flu. Real estate and labor costs are considerably lower, but View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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