Dynamic Global Marketplace - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

importance of reinvesting at this point. Q: In this context, you advance an unusual definition of competitiveness. Is that really the fulcrum for your whole project? JR: We define US competitiveness as the ability of firms in the US to succeed in the View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

06 May 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

Virtual meetings have become the standard for global and hybrid team communication, but what happens when the call ends? Participants who are in the same room keep talking—and the tone of those conversations can dramatically impact team... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

Summary Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country—and an uncertain View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Harvard University; BA, Chemistry, Princeton University Hannah Chang is a Managing Director at Wu Capital, a global evergreen fund. Dr. Chang focuses on early-stage biopharmaceutical venture capital investments out of the firm’s San... View Details

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Rapid technological change,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

W. Carl Kester

Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)

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Agribusiness Seminar

Summary Climate extremes, economic shifts, geopolitical conflict, environmental constraints, new technologies, regulatory changes, consumer expectations—these and many other forces are creating pressures, uncertainties, and opportunities across View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture

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Entrepreneurship

The Rock Center The Rock Center is the hub for entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS). It’s where HBS students who are founders, joiners or investors activate their ideas and build their ventures to drive global impact. At the... View Details

April 2023
Article

The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu

We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details

Keywords: Real Exchange Rate; Firm Level Data; Innovation; Productivity; Exporting; Importing; Credit Constraints; Currency Exchange Rate; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity

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23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

conversation, we have attached to each element a word that begins with the letter I. “ organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Bird, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Firms Respond to Worker Activism: Evidence from Global Supply Chains." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-061, June 2025. Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical... View Details

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Behavioral Economics—Virtual

Summary What if you could predict how customers will respond to a product? Or how employees will decide to implement a new initiative? In Behavioral Economics—Virtual, you'll acquire a dynamic framework for interpreting, analyzing, and... View Details

06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

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Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

network has accomplished. RECENT Publications The Politics Industry The American political system is broken. How do we fix it? Start by understanding how it actually works. Industrial policy in a new global reality World Bank Blog |... View Details

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By: Feng Zhu

Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details

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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

ourselves. Moreover, our efforts to learn from failure skew towards the self-serving and ego-preserving, as the pressure to look successful has never been greater. In organizations without psychological safety, these dynamics are... View Details

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2024 The Parlor Room Anthony Mayo on What Makes an Effective Leader Chris Linnane Harvard Business School Professor Anthony Mayo joins host Chris Linnane to explore what distinguishes good leaders from great ones, emphasizing how emotional intelligence enables leaders... View Details

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Finance for Senior Executives

highly interactive virtual modules. The blended format provides opportunities to apply new skills and frameworks in your organization during the program. Both case-based formats are led by HBS faculty, who share their latest research and engage you in a View Details

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Family Office Wealth Management—Virtual

approaches for managing and preserving family wealth through a live online platform. You may also be interested in the related program: Building a Legacy: Family Office Wealth Management. Key Benefits Successful family offices are adept at managing the tension and... View Details

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