Country Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Automobile and motor vehicle industry

Where can I find statistics on and analysis of the automobile industries? You may begin with the following databases: IBISWorld - Provides automobile industry market reports including US, Australia, UK, China, and Global.... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Colombia

style="font-size:13.0pt"> Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation,... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Delivering the Power to Dream Big

leadership skills he honed at HBS, including how to "motivate teams, communicate effectively, and create a clear agenda for an organization that you're building from scratch. Studying 500 cases also gave me that balance of analysis and... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Vietnam

Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). News Factiva Useful... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland

analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). News Factiva Useful for: targeted news search on specific industries, companies or... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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From observers to active participants in the global economy

reduce poverty through economic growth, and it’s been very effective,” says Bloom. The US agency, now with an annual budget of about $900 million, has committed more than $10 billion to projects in developing countries that meet a variety... View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

2017
Working Paper

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

By: Valeria Giacomin

Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization

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08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

and judicial environment (15 percent); "cluster" factors and so on. (A sense of an incumbent company's presence in the location should also be taken into consideration.) Once a shortlist of countries is identified, a more detailed View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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India - Industry specific research

text-decoration:underline">World Health Organization - Countries - India Includes basic health statistics and descriptions of several health related issues in India. View Details

11 Jul 2012
News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this area was about the outbound... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Oct 2014
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Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation

lead to problems of its own. David A. Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, has helped lead a team of scholars from across the country to examine how to mitigate or prevent regulatory capture by looking at the... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

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Global Maps - Creating Emerging Markets

Worldmapper Worldmapper offers a range of map generated by various metrics and topics, including manufactures, services, transport, resources, and education. A PDF is available for each map which provides a list of countries and a brief... View Details

02 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

differences in the cost components are not as sharply different as we would have assumed. Therefore it is important to do a precise analysis adapted to each specific case. The appropriate mixture between open and proprietary software will... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which contains an in-depth View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

for a government in an emerging or frontier market, as well as for those who wish to acquire a richer conceptual understanding of the nature of capitalism, globalization, and economic development worldwide. The unit of analysis of the... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of inequality in wealth and power.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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