Publications

1999
Other Presentation

The New Challenge to America’s Prosperity: Findings from the Innovation Index

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

A comparison and projection of the innovation capabilities of the U.S. and 24 other nations based on a new set of quantitative indicators. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

14 Nov 2011
Other Presentation

New York City’s Anchor Institutions: From Social Responsibility to Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter

Professor Michael E. Porter: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

25 Feb 2004
Other Presentation

Competitiveness in Rural U.S. Regions: Learning and Research Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels, Kaia K. Miller and Richard Bryden

Competitiveness in Rural U.S. Regions: Learning and Research Agenda View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

18 Aug 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

Keywords: by Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones

23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
Conference Presentation

Key Drivers for Inner City Growth

By: Michael E. Porter

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Strategy; Urban Development; Ohio

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Other Unpublished Work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

Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Negotiation; Developing Countries and Economies; Zambia

Article

China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization

By: Kristen Looney and Meg Rithmire

Contemporary discussions of urbanization and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.”... View Details

Keywords: Urban Development; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; China

April 1990 (Revised February 1994)
Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Nicaragua

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

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

world's largest producers of milk. These days, Goldberg has witnessed a resurgence of interest in agricultural entrepreneurship at HBS and elsewhere. "The students have rediscovered food, agriculture, and economic View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

investors—they require houses be purchased one at a time and often have complicated tax codes—but Davis, who served as vice president of real estate for the New York City Economic Development Corporation... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

discipline. I was (and still am) at the nascent stages of my leadership development and in order to capitalize on my full potential, I knew I had to receive formal training that challenged my perceptions of what the combination of... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

September 1999 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Taiwan: "Only the Paranoid Survive"

By: Bruce R. Scott and James R. Matthews

Taiwan has enjoyed remarkable growth since 1950. This case presents differing views of the role and contribution of the state in this process. Then it explores recent industrial policy in semiconductors. View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan

Educators

Purchase

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Osaka, Japan. Trump said on Twitter last week that he would have an "extended meeting" with President Xi Jinping of China at the summit, a welcome development for rattled investors and other world leaders. Cavallo's research... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

February 1988 (Revised May 1988)
Background Note

Note on Debt-Equity Conversions in Latin American Countries

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Development Economics; Latin America

April 1981
Case

Mexican Rural Development: SAM and PIDER

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Development Economics; Food; Rural Scope; Mexico