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      • November 2015 (Revised August 2016)
      • Case

      Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman lost little time in challenging the... View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
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      Bartlett, Christopher A. "Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 916-414, November 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
      • 2015
      • Case

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
      Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In... View Details
      Keywords: Developing World; Farm; Farming; Small-scale Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Water Management; Water; Leadership Skills; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Leadership; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Ghana; Tanzania; Rwanda
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-059, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
      • 29 Oct 2015
      • Other Presentation

      Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda

      By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
      How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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      Porter, Michael E., and Scott Stern. "Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda." DEC Lecture Series Series, World Bank, Economic Development Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, October 29, 2015.
      • 29 Oct 2015
      • Other Presentation

      Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda (Video)

      By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
      How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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      Porter, Michael E., and Scott Stern. "Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda (Video)." DEC Lecture Series Series, World Bank, Economic Development Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, October 29, 2015.
      • October 2015
      • Article

      The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and Power

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      Multinational firms unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the reciprocal... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Government and Politics; Economics; Europe; Russia
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      Abdelal, Rawi. "The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and Power." Business and Politics 17, no. 3 (October 2015): 553–576.
      • 2015
      • Report

      The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

      By: Jan Rivkin, Karen G. Mills and Michael E. Porter
      In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects of... View Details
      Keywords: Competitiveness; U.S. Competitiveness; Shared Prosperity; Wealth; Competition; United States
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      Rivkin, Jan, Karen G. Mills, and Michael E. Porter. "The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." Report, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2015 (With contributions from Michael I. Norton and Mitchell B. Weiss.)
      • August 2015 (Revised January 2017)
      • Background Note

      Evolving Trends in Global Trade

      By: Dante Roscini and Annelena Lobb
      The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade from the period after World War II to developments in 2010, focusing on shifts in trade theory and policy as well as economic benefits and disadvantages... View Details
      Keywords: Trade Negotiations; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Governance; Negotiation; Globalization; Trade; Policy; History; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia; Africa; China
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      Roscini, Dante, and Annelena Lobb. "Evolving Trends in Global Trade." Harvard Business School Background Note 716-024, August 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
      • 2015
      • Article

      International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

      By: C. Fritz Foley and Kalina Manova
      An emerging new literature brings unique ideas from corporate finance to the study of international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Investment; Trade; Corporate Finance
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      Foley, C. Fritz, and Kalina Manova. "International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance." Annual Review of Economics 7 (2015): 119–146.
      • July 2015 (Revised January 2020)
      • Case

      Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport

      By: Geoffrey Jones, Michael Norris and Sophi Kim
      The case focuses on the career of Horst Dassler, the son of the founder of the German-based sports shoe manufacturer Adidas. The origins of the firm were in the interwar years, and it rose to public prominence after it provided spikes for Jesse Owens, the famous... View Details
      Keywords: Corruption; Economic History; Business History; Entertainment; Business; Strategy; Media; Digital Technology; Blockbuster; Superstar; Film; Television; Music; Publishing; Performing Arts; Nightlife; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Sports; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Sports Industry; Germany; South America; Europe; Asia; North and Central America
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      Jones, Geoffrey, Michael Norris, and Sophi Kim. "Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport." Harvard Business School Case 316-007, July 2015. (Revised January 2020.)
      • April 2015 (Revised October 2019)
      • Case

      The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
      The continent of Europe seemed in the spring of 2015 to be in a weaker position relative to other world regions than it had in centuries. Though comparatively small, it had long played a disproportionate role in world history, to the extent that the modern world system... View Details
      Keywords: The Great Divergence; Modern Economic Growth; Empire; Disruption; Economic Growth; Values and Beliefs; History; Globalization; Europe
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      Reinert, Sophus A. "The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 715-039, April 2015. (Revised October 2019.)
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      Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

      By: Shoshana Zuboff
      This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
      Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
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      Zuboff, Shoshana. "Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization." Journal of Information Technology 30, no. 1 (March 2015): 75–89.
      • March 2015 (Revised March 2023)
      • Case

      Immigration Policy in Germany (A)

      By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Alastair Su
      Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel faced economic and moral pressure to encourage greater immigration from struggling European, and especially Eurozone, countries after the economic downturn that began in 2008. In fact, it was possible that both the Euro currency union... View Details
      Keywords: Citizenship; Optimal Currency Unions; Globalized Economies and Regions; Immigration; Policy; Germany; European Union
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      Weinzierl, Matthew, Katrina Flanagan, and Alastair Su. "Immigration Policy in Germany (A)." Harvard Business School Case 715-029, March 2015. (Revised March 2023.)
      • 2015
      • Book

      Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective

      By: Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati and Michael Tushman
      The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling—reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However,... View Details
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      Henderson, Rebecca, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman, eds. Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2015.
      • January 2015 (Revised January 2018)
      • Technical Note

      Note on Comparative Capitalism

      By: Clayton S. Rose and Rebecca Henderson
      This note draws on academic work, as well as social and economic data across several countries, to provide a basic understanding of some of the differences among capitalist systems. It begins with a description of the system of capitalism, and characteristics that to a... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Global; Economic Systems; Global Range; Japan; Germany; China; United States; Sweden
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      Rose, Clayton S., and Rebecca Henderson. "Note on Comparative Capitalism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 315-077, January 2015. (Revised January 2018.)
      • January–February 2015
      • Article

      Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?

      By: Debora L. Spar
      For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account... View Details
      Keywords: Ebola; Multinational Corporation; Epidemics; Foreign Investment; Extractive Industries; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Africa
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      Spar, Debora L. "Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?" Foreign Policy 210 (January–February 2015).
      • December 2014
      • Article

      Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World

      By: Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu
      We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Performance; Valuation; Equity Valuation; Persistence; Competitive Advantage; Institutions; Earnings Management; Labor Market; Capital Markets; Competition; Profit; Performance; Supply and Industry; Financial Statements; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries
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      Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu. "Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World." Review of Accounting Studies 19, no. 4 (December 2014): 1281–1308.
      • November 2014
      • Article

      The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

      By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
      The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of... View Details
      Keywords: Agglomeration; Agglomeration Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Manufacturing Industry
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen. "The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms." Journal of International Economics 94, no. 2 (November 2014): 263–276. (Revised April 2014. Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15576. See Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-043 for longer version.)
      • October 2014 (Revised December 2015)
      • Background Note

      China's Environmental Challenge

      By: William C. Kirby, Nora Bynum, Erica M. Zendell and Brittany Crow
      China faces enormous environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis that faces the world's fastest-growing economy. View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Economies and Regions; History; Crisis Management; Environmental Sustainability; China
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      Kirby, William C., Nora Bynum, Erica M. Zendell, and Brittany Crow. "China's Environmental Challenge." Harvard Business School Background Note 315-026, October 2014. (Revised December 2015.)
      • October 2014
      • Article

      Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

      By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
      We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign... View Details
      Keywords: Current Account; Aid/government Debt; Reserves; Puzzles; Productivity; Sovereign Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics
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      Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych. "Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances." Journal of the European Economic Association 12, no. 5 (October 2014): 1240–1284. (Also NBER Working Paper 17396. Online Appendix. See International capital flows database for the data on measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries.)
      • 29 Sep 2014
      • Other Presentation

      Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter
      Professor Michael Porter delivered a keynote speech at Mapping the Midwest's Future, a conference held in Minneapolis and hosted by the University of Minnesota that officially launched the new U.S. Cluster Mapping tool. His presentation focused on U.S. competitiveness... View Details
      Keywords: Clusters; Regional Strategy; Industry Clusters; Economics; Minneapolis; United States
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      Porter, Michael E. "Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy." Mapping the Midwest's Future, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minneapolis, MN, September 29, 2014.
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