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- 17 Mar 2010
- Other Presentation
Massachusetts Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance
Porter, Michael E. "Massachusetts Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Boston, MA, March 17, 2010.
- July 2007
- Other Article
Cluster und Clusterpolitik: Wege zu mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Cluster und Clusterpolitik: Wege zu mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit." Ratio 13, no. 4 (July 2007).
- 11 Jun 2008
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy
Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy." Summit for American Prosperity, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, June 11, 2008.
- April 1982 (Revised March 1986)
- Case
Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (B)
By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Nicaragua
Austin, James E. "Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (B)." Harvard Business School Case 382-149, April 1982. (Revised March 1986.)
- December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
- Teaching Note
Foreign Direct Investment and Ireland's Tiger Economy (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Laura Alfaro
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
A Private Sector without Prerequisites: Ordered Uncertainty in Vietnam and China
By: Regina M. Abrami
- Profile
Sorina Casian-Botez
Why was earning your MBA here important to you? HBS has an aura of academic and professional excellence in business. I wanted to be part of this culture, knowing that only in such a challenging environment could I develop the skills and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from a 2007 World Bank study of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Article
Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions
By: Alberto Cavallo and Eduardo Cavallo
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. We show that once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Democracy; Macroeconomics; Growth and Development; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Government and Politics
Cavallo, Alberto, and Eduardo Cavallo. "Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions." Journal of Macroeconomics 32, no. 3 (September 2010): 838–857.
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Starting Up America
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History
- 23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
- Conference Presentation
Key Drivers for Inner City Growth
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Key Drivers for Inner City Growth." Paper presented at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Cleveland, OH, October 23–24, 2013.
- 2013
- Other Unpublished Work
Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia
By: Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Jean Lee
We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives... View Details
Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean Lee. "Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia." September 2013. (2nd revision resubmitted, American Economic Review.)
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- News
History’s Future
for the historic region, a plan that will include archeological exploration, ecological conservation, and economic development—all with a commitment to inclusivity. The old city of AlUla may be abandoned, but more than 40,000 people live... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
to the challenge, Walmart's action raised an interesting question for Rod White. "When is it in an employer's self-interest to voluntarily increase the wages of (its) employees? Of course the classical economics answer is 'never.'... View Details
- 2002
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