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  • 22 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been published, which includes an epilogue on the crisis and the contrasting... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
  • October 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Noel Maurer and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
The Cosan case introduces students and executive education participants to political economy and business strategy in the biofuels industry. Cosan, based in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • January 2004
  • Article

Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry
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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Barron's Business Terms, FDI is "investment in a country by foreign citizens, often involving majority stock ownership of an enterprise." Huang is looking deeper into how and why FDI played quite different roles in these four View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • August 2018
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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    George C. Lodge

    Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

    • 28 Mar 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media

    • 29 Sep 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

    Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven
    • 01 Oct 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

    Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
    • October 2024
    • Teaching Note

    El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-055. In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had... View Details
    Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Latin America; El Salvador
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    • March 2021
    • Technical Note

    Competitive Strategy in International Construction

    By: John D. Macomber and Emrah Ergelen
    Construction of buildings and infrastructure is one of the largest industries in the world in terms of volume. It is also one of the most physically risky, financially uncertain, and politically impacted. The industry is highly fragmented since there are few economies... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Infrastructure; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Strategic Planning; Global Range; Construction Industry
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      Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

      Translations available in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Vietnamese.

      Western concerns about the rise of China and India are raising alarms today, much as they were fifty years ago. China and India currently operate in... View Details

      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

      By: Asli M. Coplan and Geoffrey Jones
      This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This enterprise was an important actor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Groups; Turkey; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; History; Government and Politics; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Electronics Industry; Middle East; Europe
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      • 27 Jan 2017
      • News

      Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Will Give China a Big Edge Over America

      • Working Paper

      The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

      By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
      The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
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      • 27 Jan 2017
      • News

      Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Will Give China a Big Edge Over America

      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges
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      • 19 Jul 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: July 19

      claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Apr 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      The Business of Global Poverty

      economy and have no safety net and virtually no hope of moving upward." "Globalization has helped emerging economies distribute their products and services around the View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons
      • 31 Mar 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: March 31, 2009

      http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309090 Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America Harvard Business School Case 709-410 Lan Airlines operates three distinct models: low-cost for domestic... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace