Nationality - Publications - Faculty & Research

2011
Chapter

Clusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

While clusters have been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has undoubtedly... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Framework; Policy; Industry Clusters; Practice; Competitive Advantage

Citation

On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

rest of the tire.18 Although other companies also experienced quality problems with their radials, Firestones' were the most severe, and the company came under heavy pressure from consumer groups and the National Highway Safety... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

(iStockphoto/Sundry Photography) Most people agree that US immigration policy is a mess. At times, it is hard to even know what it is. Immigration policy differences divide us as a nation and produce a great deal of misinformation. They... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1996
News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

result of his research was the establishment two years ago of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to putting Porter's model into practice. Now the father of two daughters, Ilana, nine,... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Monitor , and the New York Herald Tribune . H. I. Day of Electrical Research Products, Inc., impressed with the presentation, stated, "Land has solved a problem that every physicist working with light has struggled with for nearly a century." 16 At the View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

initiatives, including loss and damage—the idea that the harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

institutions gathered and disseminated knowledge about the country’s biodiversity, an effort that, with government support, led to the creation of national reserves and parks. As with Malaysia, Costa Rica’s relative political stability,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

founder of the Tobin Project, an independent, interdisciplinary initiative that uses academic research to tackle massive real-world problems like economic inequality, national security, and government regulation. “We’ve found that working... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Smith's two main works—The Wealth of Nations (WN) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS)—show him to be a brilliant economist and arguably a brilliant psychologist, but he was never fully able to bring the economics and psychology... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

11 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

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By: Richard S. Tedlow

Don't Deny the Facts

Investor's Business Daily, April 27, 2010

The ability to see facts objectively is paramount to business success. An interview with Richard S.... View Details

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE National Basketball Association HBS ACTIVITIES Community Values Rep, African-American Student Union (AASU) co-president, 2019-20 Vivian Scalfi “THIS IS THE PLACE TO LEARN HOW TO IMPROVISE.” HOME REGION Sao Paulo,... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

initial role was to capture lessons from the National Training Centers where troops engage in long, simulated battles to test their readiness and skills. As the Army's mission broadened to include 'operations other than war' such as fire... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

Research Summary

Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

Research Summary

Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details

22 Mar 2017
HBS Seminar

Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

“and doing so will leave our children’s generation much better off. If we don’t get it done, the problems our cities face today will become far worse.” Powering Up and Out As director of US Strategy for National Grid, Judith Judson (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

August 2023
Case

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details