Geography - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2002
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Local Versus Global Mimetism: The Dynamics of Alliance Formation in the Automobile Industry

By: Carlos Garcia-Pont and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Local Range; Global Range; Production; Auto Industry

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Orbis | Baker Library

Orbis A global private company comparison database containing millions of company data points. Read More ORBIS, a global company database, is unique in breadth of geographies and extent of companies covered as well as the availability of... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

income and benefits, health insurance, education, and veteran status. See list of survey subjects . United States Census: Business and Economy Business and industry economic statistics by geography and by survey/frequency. United States... View Details

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REITs (real estate investment trusts)

next screen at Click Here choose Global Category and in the Value cell choose Real Estate Sector Equity. Enter other criteria if desired and run the search. Real Capital Analytics (RCA) Select Investors Select Capital Tracker from the left-hand menu bar. Then select... View Details

January 2001
Article

The "Commonwealth Effect" and the Process of Internationalisation

By: G. Jones and S. Lundan

Keywords: Global Range

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January 2003
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Vietnam in 2002

Keywords: Global Range; Viet Nam

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01 Mar 2016
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The People’s Pods

public radio world. Farzad on thinking beyond precedent JA: I think that dynamic is exactly right. For a lot of these radio stations, the aim used to be to create content that appealed to as broad an audience in your local geography as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

August 2019
Case

Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?

By: Willy Shih and Esel Çekin

This case describes the evolution of Kazakhstan's rail connectivity strategy post-collapse of the Soviet Union and its now central role in China's Belt and Road Initiative. This meant shifting from a north-south orientation towards an east-west one, as well as the... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Logistics; Trade; Economic Growth; Geopolitical Units; Geography; Rail Transportation; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; China

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January 2005
Article

Location, Location, Location

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Keywords: Geographic Location

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06 May 2008
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Small World? Read Nil about It

politically when its citizens don’t pay attention to what’s going on overseas, be it what their country does in their name, or be it by forces beyond their control. And consider the next generation: American students’ ignorance of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

perspective and understanding of the politics, economics, and social realities of geographies that are different from their own.” Anjali Raina Executive Director, India Research Center HBS and Sri Lanka The course, which HBS’s India... View Details

January 2018
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Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca and Nikhil Naik

New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Urban Scope; City

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01 Dec 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Matthew Ross (MBA 2022) Cofounder and CEO, Trove Health 2022–2023 Blavatnik Fellow Concept: Trove is building the world’s largest longitudinal database of patients and their health information across View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: India

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04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

An explosion in software patents within the last 50 years fueled the rise of America’s six major tech hubs, but also siphoned talent from some of the nation’s biggest cities, new research finds. The transition to six major hubs—San Francisco (Silicon Valley), Boston,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Jan 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song; Retail; Real Estate

September–October 1992
Article

What Is a Global Manager?

By: C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal

Keywords: Global Range; Management

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November 2016
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Spatial Organization of Firms and Location Choices Through the Value Chain

By: Juan Alcacer and Mercedes Delgado

We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically bounded, inter-firm linkages (external agglomerations) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database,... View Details

Keywords: Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Value Chain; Organization Theory; Geographic Location; Business Strategy

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