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  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Portrait Project

Rod Norman

life to help solve the economic, social, and political problems I saw in the Black community. I now realize that the world I saw then is only part of the larger world Dr. King saw. When he said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Full text available as a networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its economic and political doldrums... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Think Locally, Act Globally

In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason, a self-trained and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Industry Clusters; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks; United States
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  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

political pressures. If successful, the Chinese Communist Party will forge a new path of urbanization, building cities before recruiting urban citizens. The process, however, entails possibilities of yet other social dislocations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

surveyed projected they could continue paying premiums for six or more months. Researchers used data from a survey conducted by Alignable, a North American online business networking platform. Of the 9,043 Alignable members who opened the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 03 Oct 2019
  • News

Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care

Cleveland Clinic Canada; and Panel Moderator Kazi Ahmed (MBA 2011) President, HBS Club of Toronto “They talked about both the current and future states of medicine,” says Ahmed. “We had an informal Q & A format, and the group talked about a wide range of topics,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

technology is an important part of the story here. What would it take to get commuters out of their cars and into public transit? I envision a subway system with stops further apart, so long-haul transit can be faster and more efficient. Then each subway stop enjoys a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • February 2018
  • Article

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
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  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 25 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the Africa Business Club

the Harvard community as well as the broader young professional African network though our annual conference. OBJECTIVES Provide a forum for career opportunities for students interested in the African region, as well as employers seeking... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Managing up is not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

will do so, which results in market inefficiency. Second, the model provides a new argument for why it is usually entrants, not incumbents, who bring major technological innovations to the market. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-080.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Prior research has suggested that a company's ties to political networks carries only two values, positive and zero, while the results of this study suggest that political... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

safety testing by third-party labs in the US in 2015 was about $1.5 billion, compared to the estimated $8.5 billion value of food safety tests conducted by companies in-house. Mérieux NutriSciences is one of the largest providers of food safety testing for food... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage