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Global Business Course | HBS Online

Rates 6-8 hrs Module 3 Political Order and Disorder Understand the role of government in the modern economy and analyze political risks to business strategy. Highlights Introduction - Ray Mabus Welfare Economics Corruption Show Hide... View Details

13 Mar 2018
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Manufacturing a Renaissance in the Deep South

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

for very long. After all, an outsourcer of these services enjoys economies of scale that virtually no internal support unit can hope to match. An outsourcer can shift operations to the lowest-cost regions of the world, such as India or... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

different forms of auctions See how conjoint analysis can be used to understand customer preferences 12 hrs Module 3 Suppliers and Cost Understand fixed versus variable costs and economies of scale. Highlights The Profitability of Going... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

or using it to gain competitive advantage? Josh Lerner: There is a tremendous diversity of responses to the growing importance of intellectual property on the part of firms. In many cases, firms have ignored the increased role of intellectual property in today's View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

2008
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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

By: Tarun Khanna

China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In "Billions of Entrepreneurs," Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; China; India

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11 Oct 2006
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How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

reducing the significance of the ratio, what effect will this have on intermediate-term national economic performance, especially in an economy driven by consumption? Would retention of the elderly in the work force have a net negative... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Sep 2006
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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Selin Sayek

2018
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Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

By: Tarun Khanna

Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, and institutional protections as their counterparts in the West will fail. To succeed, they need to build trust within the existing structures—and this book shows how it's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Trust

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30 Aug 2004
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Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Management 2 results Amy W. Schulman General Management Lumumba B. Seegars Organizational Behavior 1 result Debora L. Spar General Management 2 results Sandra J. Sucher General Management 6 results Matthew C. Weinzierl Business, Government and the International View Details

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

City ICIC is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. U.S. Cluster Mapping Project The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project is a national economic... View Details

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Rafaella Sadun | About

articles published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics , American Economic Review , and Journal of Political Economy . She served as an economic advisor to the Italian government in 2020 and 2022 and received the honor... View Details

22 Mar 2024
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

for solving challenging problems with the interpersonal skills required for deep relationship building. Coaching, mentoring, and leading lights her up and further her mission. “I knew that I wanted to get an education, build a network, and then at some point do my part... View Details

21 Feb 2019
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Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010

Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta empirically assesses if friends indeed influence purchases. The answer: It depends. The End of Chimerica For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Feb 2021
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Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

difficult transitions that affect sales training and hiring criteria. Senz: You discuss sales productivity as a social responsibility for firms. Can you explain what you mean? Cespedes: Especially in services-dominated economies like the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

environmental protection movements strengthen Vehicle Safety Act and Highway Safety Act Closing merger loophole opens door for conglomerate business model Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 Deregulation of oil and airline industries New energy policies and programs... View Details

26 Jun 2023
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ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

Africa, especially for communities that aren’t connected to the grid. I am always drawn to how developing and emerging markets can approach these challenges while fostering economic growth and leapfrogging their economy to a net-zero... View Details

29 Nov 2017
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How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

children of these fathers, as it were.” Related Reading: How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy What do you think about the ideas in this... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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