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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem

By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker
Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model that makes that prediction, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Non-Renewable Energy; International Relations; Economics
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Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric Werker. "Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-009, July 2012.
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

Keywords: by André C. Martínez Fritscher & Aldo Musacchio
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

is evidence that increased competition from Chinese imports contributed to the rise of far right parties in Western Europe. Some of my research explores similar dynamics in Brazil. I have found that decreased international demand for Brazilian View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • December 2021
  • Case

Danish Crown: Feeding the Future

By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
Danish Crown, one of the world’s largest exporters of pork meat and one of Europe’s top five producers of beef, faced increasing headwinds in 2021, making CEO Jais Valeur feel like the core of the meat business was under attack. As a cooperative and prominent player in... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Change Management; Transition; Leadership; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Marketing; Corporate Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Denmark
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Bell, David E., Damien P. McLoughlin, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Danish Crown: Feeding the Future." Harvard Business School Case 522-057, December 2021.
  • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

co-author of the case, asks his students whether other companies could export Buurtzorg’s lessons to their industries. “In our case discussions, the students—whether MBAs or executives—don’t write-off Buurtzorg as an extreme case, or... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • 02 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & Kalina Manova
  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

many US firms in the 20th century and was then exported to corporations in other countries. Its owners helped form General Motors and placed Alfred Sloan at the helm of that firm—which for many years was the nation’s largest enterprise.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Company, which began by importing and exporting into West Africa but, beginning in the 1950s, turned to investing heavily in local manufacturing, especially brewing and textiles. The United Africa Company employed around 70,000 people in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges
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Jones, Geoffrey. "International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-020, September 2017.
  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange

By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock
Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:

* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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Edelman, Benjamin, and Bill Woodcock. "Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange." Canadian Internet Registration Authority, September 2012.
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

image of raw serenity it presented to the world; yet it took a concerted marketing effort that highlighted these elements in an attractive way to succeed. Prepare to invest money and time. Ten years ago, South Korea set out to remove the “Korean Discount” on its View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

extreme case was the Common Agricultural Policy, adopted in 1966, which severely restricted U.S. agricultural exports to Europe. However, within Europe, free trade was established between the member countries, even though nontariff... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from California but inexpensive manufactured... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 05 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

data last year, the researchers were surprised to find that Chinese exporters were not dropping prices of goods they sold to US importers. Nor, however, were US retailers passing the prices on to consumers. “Typically, most economists... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 07 Jul 2003
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Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

as the result of exporting jobs to China, India, and other developing economies. Still others argued that the issue relates to end objectives, not the means, of achieving greater productivity. Jim Noon characterized the first point of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

  • 06 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

the country was producing only 10 percent of the world's watches. Yet Switzerland has reemerged as the global leader of watch exports (by export value), due to a newfound market demand for old-style... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products
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