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  • 2010
  • Article

Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von großen westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im Wandel (1960-2008)

"Between Family Heritage and Global Market. Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West-German Family Firms (1960-2008)" Large family firms fall between two theoretical accounts. They neither follow the development path described by Alfred D. Chandler nor do they... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Ownership; Germany
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  • January 2025
  • Case

Arsenal Capital Partners' Refinancing of Pinnacle

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
Arsenal Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Pinnacle, a leading producer of high-performance adhesive technologies, has experienced rapid growth under Arsenal’s ownership. Over just two years, Pinnacle's EBITDA increased from $13.5 million to $60 million. By mid-2021,... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth Management
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details
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  • 2021
  • Article

Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing

By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Policy
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  • 15 Nov 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust: An Experimental Study

Keywords: by Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels & Peter Werner
  • 19 Nov 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us …)

Keywords: by William A. Sahlman
  • April 2005
  • Article

Partisan Social Happiness

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country... View Details
Keywords: Political Partisanship; Political Economy; Society; Happiness
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  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

of risk operating in both geographies. Macroeconomic and policy turbulence emerged as the biggest source of risk for Latin Americans, while excessive bureaucracy was the biggest source of risk for South Asians. Political instability,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Who Gets Hired?: The Importance of Finding an Open Slot

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details
Keywords: Hiring; Selection and Staffing; Employment
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  • January 2018
  • Article

Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details
Keywords: Hiring; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Competency and Skills
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Deglobalization and Entrepreneurial Investment: The Natural Experiment of Brexit

By: Elisa Alvarez-Garrido and Juan Alcácer
We seek to gain insight into the consequences of deglobalization on entrepreneurial investment by analyzing an instance of economic disintegration: the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. Brexit is not only a unique empirical opportunity, a natural... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; International Relations; Trade; Disruption; Globalized Economies and Regions; United Kingdom
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  • Research Summary

The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions

By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,... View Details
  • Web

Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

California Wine Cluster, and the Silicon Valley Technology Cluster. Cluster Initiatives Cluster development initiatives are an important new direction in economic policy. Building on past efforts in macroeconomic stabilization,... View Details
  • 2007
  • Report

Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The report synthesizes, interprets, and draws implications about Russia's economic progress, applying the Porter competitiveness framework. It is part of a Strategic Audit of the Russian Federation, a broader set of research activities coordinated by CSR to provide a... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Russia
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  • April 2020
  • Article

Long-term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Manufacturers 1959–2015

By: Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella, Gary P. Pisano and Federico Tamagni
Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational “fitness” within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to... View Details
Keywords: Firm Growth; Organizations; Growth and Development; Theory; Analysis; Production; Data and Data Sets
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  • Web

Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Macroeconomics Competitiveness Sound Monetary & Fiscal Policies Human Development & Effective Political Institutions Endowments Productivity ultimately depends on improving the microeconomic capability of the economy and the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

or other macroeconomic factors. With these factors in mind, here are four things to focus on in 2024: Balancing margins and volume. For decisions about whether to adjust prices, it is not simply a question of how high prices can go, but... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

non-rational expectations to account for boom-bust macroeconomic cycles. The authors incorporate diagnostic expectations into a workhorse neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Banking; Legal Services
  • Web

U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strengthening U.S. Competitiveness The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project aims to strengthen U.S. competitiveness by helping clusters and regions understand and improve their economic composition and performance. While much national economic debate has focused on View Details