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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the steps needed by business and government to restore economic growth and shared prosperity (2016, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, with Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, and Manjari Raman). In 2016, Katherine Gehl invited Dr. Porter to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/hapabapa View Details
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
Generations of Black business owners have had to fight discrimination to prosper in America, but a new study suggests that these entrepreneurs are now gaining more support in parts of the country when they make their presence known. The... View Details
- 2020
- Discussion Paper
Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential
of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the
overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Peter Clinch. "Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19." Discussion Paper, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Boston, MA, US, 2020.
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
professional workforce that experienced less burnout and often happily remained at a single company during their entire career. Businesses treated Baby Boomers as a corporate liability. Following World War II, Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, benefitted from... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Value-Based Health Care Core Concepts by Professor Michael E. Porter oct 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Core Concepts by Professor Michael Porter More Presentations Competitiveness & Economic Development 26 Sep 2017 A Strategy for Haitian View Details
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Levels of Government - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
where many countries fail and pay the price in terms of lower competitiveness and prosperity Geographic & Governmental Influences on Productivity State Example View Details
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The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View
think ambitiously about how it attracts and uses talent, Mirza concludes in Talent Disruption. “Failure to act strategically will only accelerate the crisis and permanently shrink employment in an industry that has a rich history of entrepreneurship,” he writes. “By... View Details
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
where you don’t know your neighbors,” he says. “In India, you grew up knowing abject poverty and that has stayed with me throughout my adult life and influenced my research.” He came to the United States about 40 years ago to research how business advances the View Details
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
prudent care and self-denying life he slowly added to his well-earned wealth. . . . He was unto the very last a man of rare and simplest modesty.” [5] Emanuel Lehman, who died ten years later, was also characterized as being “the same man in View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, and Kwame Owusu-Kesse, COO of Harlem Children's Zone, was particularly inspiring for their lasting impact on vulnerable communities in the United States and abroad.... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
Like: Why Digital Is a State of Mind, Not Just a Skill Set Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
CEO Sigler launched his cultural transformation in 1981. Where the objective is to enable an institution to adapt, survive, and prosper in the long run, Theory E change must be combined with Theory O. In effect we are arguing for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 2015
- Report
Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region." Report, Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, Chicago, IL, August 2015.
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Singapore Competitiveness Report
By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo
The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
Ketels, Christian H.M., Ashish Lall, and Boon Siong Neo. "Singapore Competitiveness Report." Asia Competitiveness Institute, Singapore, November 2009.
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
toward a healthy economy and future gains? There are several levers such as investing heavily in robotics and labor-augmenting machinery, but immigration can also be a powerful way for countries to continue economic development and growth.” Highly skilled immigrants... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
New Video: Books@Baker Virtual Session with Michael Beer After prospering for more than 100 years, General Electric found itself in trouble in the early 2000s, facing the double wallop of a depressed energy sector and the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles National Competitiveness National Competitiveness Creating and sustaining national prosperity has become more... View Details