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  • 07 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

retention when compared to competitors. It was fun to find a virtuous cycle within a business model that has nothing to do with the network effects of a tech platform. The case was extremely important in... View Details
  • October 2017
  • Article

American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950

By: Sven Beckert
During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important economy, some European observers feared their nations’... View Details
Keywords: Atlantropa; Colonial Expansion; Economic Nationalism; Second Great Divergence; Economics; Global Range; History; United States; Europe; Africa
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  • 30 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

pays for it? Should there be an independent firm that is appointed by the SEC?" What do you think? Original Article Observers such as Jay Lorsch, in his book Pawns and Potentates, has argued that boards View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

of the company from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack. Their take: Microsoft wins through effective management of its intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry
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  • 21 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP's research and scholarly activity. Multinationals... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues
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  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

through advertising, simply by informing consumers of a merchant's existence via e-mail. For some merchants, the benefits of offering discount vouchers are sharply reduced if individual customers buy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
  • 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
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Law and Finance c. 1900

By: Aldo Musacchio
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
Keywords: Law; Finance; Corporate Governance; Practice; Growth and Development
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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

education, health care, equal opportunity Rule of Law: Property rights, personal security, and due process Political Institutions: Stable and effective political and governmental organizations and processes... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

Corps upon graduating from Harvard College. Now, as a joint degree candidate at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School, Solís aims to discover new ways to serve his country and community through the intersection View Details
  • 2017
  • Book

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States
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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

clinicians and scientists. Learning a new language takes time, and I’ve found immersive learning to be the most effective strategy in achieving such a feat. Consequently, a full-time business school program felt like the appropriate next... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

mitigate via duties and taxes or offer short term support to displaced workers but (it is) far better to come to grips with where your country has real sustainable global advantages. Many of those America... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 20 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

directly on the project with the team. We collected daily diaries in order to understand everyone's day-by-day subjective experiences. We analyzed the connection between the daily events that people reported, their reactions to those events, and the View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

in countries such as India, Japan, China, and Mexico, to ask about the distinctive challenges of their markets and organizations. I am developing several cases based on this research for my second-year... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education