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- 2017
- Article
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 201–234.
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
interest in a concept of competitive strategy more closely grounded in industrial organization economics; and third, with the development of a new course in entrepreneurial management more closely linked to business policy's concerns with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
administrative, cultural, and corporate capital of the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland of smoke, coal, and steel. Art became a source of competitiveness. Through creative cooperative efforts, which we could call View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Teaching Note
Keurig TN
By: Paul W. Marshall
Teaching Note for (9-899-180). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
- 1991
- Book
Advantage Sweden
By: Michael E. Porter, Orjan Solvell and I. Zander
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Global Strategy; Economy; Sweden
Porter, Michael E., Orjan Solvell, and I. Zander. Advantage Sweden. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 1991. (Second ed., Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 1993.)
- April 2000
- Background Note
Market Failures
By: Bharat N. Anand, Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
Examines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Cost; Market Transactions; Industry Clusters; Failure; Internet
Anand, Bharat N., Tarun Khanna, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Market Failures." Harvard Business School Background Note 700-127, April 2000.
- September 2008
- Teaching Note
Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [608-123]. View Details
- August 1974 (Revised November 1974)
- Case
Reynolds Construction Company
By: Paul W. Marshall
Deals with the use of critical path method for the construction of remote control building, which is part of a water purification system. Discusses the necessity of determining the shortest possible time in which a job could be done without spending more money. Case... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Cost Management; Time Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; System; Construction Industry
Marshall, Paul W. "Reynolds Construction Company." Harvard Business School Case 675-017, August 1974. (Revised November 1974.)
- November 2006 (Revised July 2012)
- Teaching Note
Fleet Managed Assets Division (TN)
By: Paul W. Marshall
- June 2010 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Remaking Singapore
By: Michael E. Porter, Boon Siong Neo and Christian H.M. Ketels
Looking through the lenses of both macro and micro economic policy, this case examines how Singapore has achieved such stellar success throughout its history, from independence through 2008. The case discusses the different policy choices the Singaporean government has... View Details
Keywords: History; Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Policy; Economic Growth; Microeconomics; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; Singapore
Porter, Michael E., Boon Siong Neo, and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Remaking Singapore." Harvard Business School Case 710-483, June 2010. (Revised August 2013.)
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2002 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica
By: Michael E. Porter and Niels W. Ketelhohn
Describes the actions of Costa Rica President Figueres and his cabinet in attracting an Intel assembly and testing plant to their country. The effort was part of a government strategy that sought to develop further the Costa Rican electronics and information technology... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Costa Rica
Porter, Michael E., and Niels W. Ketelhohn. "Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica." Harvard Business School Case 703-422, November 2002. (Revised September 2013.)
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-052.pdf Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe By: Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv Abstract—This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
- Teaching Note
Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)
By: Paul W. Marshall
This is the teaching note that is supplemental to the Hexcel Cases A, B & C. View Details
- February 2009
- Teaching Note
AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [609004]. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Investment; Industry Clusters; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Science; Geographic Location; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Europe; United States
- November 2002 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Circles: Series D Financing
By: Paul W. Marshall and Kristin Lieb
Circles, a corporate concierge company on the verge of profitability, must make a decision whether to take a D-round venture capital despite ever-changing and ever-worsening terms. A four-year-old company with several major clients, it has met its business plan... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financing and Loans; Management Teams; Growth and Development Strategy; Negotiation Process; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Service Industry; Massachusetts
Marshall, Paul W., and Kristin Lieb. "Circles: Series D Financing." Harvard Business School Case 803-062, November 2002. (Revised October 2003.)
- April 2001 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
ScreamingMedia Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall and Michele Lutz
Marshall, Paul W., and Michele Lutz. "ScreamingMedia Inc." Harvard Business School Case 801-371, April 2001. (Revised September 2001.)
- 2010
- Report
Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010
By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh and Do Hong Hanh
The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal for an economic strategy to enable Vietnam to reach a higher level of sustainable growth.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Labor; Industry Clusters; Performance Capacity; Performance Productivity; Competitive Strategy
Ketels, Christian H.M., Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh, and Do Hong Hanh. "Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010." Report Series, Central Institute for Economic Management, Hanoi/Singapore, December 2010.
- January 2003 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Newport Creamery (A)
By: Paul Marshall and Todd Thedinga
Describes the operating challenges of Newport Creamery, a Rhode Island-based chain of ice cream restaurants. Profiles the company's transition from longtime family ownership to a real estate developer, the developer's expansion strategy, and the company's subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Food and Beverage Industry; Rhode Island
Marshall, Paul, and Todd Thedinga. "Newport Creamery (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-130, January 2003. (Revised October 2012.)