Developing Countries and Economies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2001
News

Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

companies and countries worldwide and, before retiring in 1997, had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants. Most... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Scientific Research and Development Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

September 2004 (Revised May 2006)
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Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (A)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Vincent Dessain and Monika Stachowiak

Tells the story of the Czech transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy, describing the first economic reforms, the fixed-exchange rate regime, and the voucher privatization. Also explains why, in the middle of the 1990s, the Czech Republic... View Details

Keywords: History; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit; Government Administration; Decisions; Economic Systems; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Czech Republic

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22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

21 Jan 2010
News

Dubai: Unlike Anywhere Else

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

was post-communist Estonia that launched the Eastern European wave in 1994. Though Slovakia was not the first country to adopt a flat tax nor is it the biggest economy, Slovakia has raised some important issues regarding tax harmonization... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to individual patent records. International patent citations confirm knowledge diffuses through ethnic networks, and manufacturing output in foreign View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
News

Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

HBS faculty members, and leading Latin American scholars and business practitioners. What are some of the region's important business issues? It is difficult to speak of Latin America as a single unit. That... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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La estrategia empresarial y el entorno en los paises en desarrollo

By: J. E. Austin

Keywords: Business Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies

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April 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Teaching Note

Nghe An Tate & Lyle Sugar Company (Vietnam), TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman

Teaching Note for (9-202-054). View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Price; Projects; Valuation; Financing and Loans; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry; Viet Nam

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11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

June 2002 (Revised September 2002)
Case

Alan Greenspan

By: Huw Pill and Allison Morhaim

Describes the life and times of Alan Greenspan. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Economy; Policy; Macroeconomics

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06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

few months ago, has since been openly considered by many. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences. The crisis has already had a profound political impact, sweeping aside leaders in no fewer than five member View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006

and how these differences in terms of economic development affect appropriate policy choices. In particular, questions arise as to the role of cluster initiatives, an instrument that has become more widely... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne