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  • November 2012
  • Article

The Organization of Firms Across Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R&D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management
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Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "The Organization of Firms Across Countries." Quarterly Journal of Economics 127, no. 4 (November 2012). (Slides from 2008, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-005, August 2011.)

    Ethnic Inequality

    This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality across countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality... View Details

    • 10 Jul 2018
    • News

    Trump’s Protectionist Threat to Latin America

    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Threat and Assimilation: Evidence from Refugees in Germany

    By: Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau and Marco Tabellini
    This paper studies the effects of local threat on the cultural assimilation and economic integration of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We use representative survey data and... View Details
    Keywords: Assimilation; Threat Hypothesis; Migration; Cultural Change; Refugees; Culture; Identity; Germany
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    Jaschke, Philipp, Sulin Sardoschau, and Marco Tabellini. "Threat and Assimilation: Evidence from Refugees in Germany." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-043, December 2021. (Revised January 2025. Revise and resubmit at the Economic Journal. Also available from NBER, and featured on Le Monde.)
    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

    Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
    Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
    • 28 Dec 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Tech Clusters

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
    • November 2009
    • Article

    Neural Mechanisms of Social Influence

    By: Malia Mason, Rebecca Dyer and Michael I. Norton
    The present investigation explores the neural mechanisms underlying the impact of social influence on preferences. We socially tagged symbols as valued or not-by exposing participants to the preferences of their peers-and assessed subsequent brain activity during an... View Details
    Keywords: Power and Influence; Value; Information; Outcome or Result
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    Mason, Malia, Rebecca Dyer, and Michael I. Norton. "Neural Mechanisms of Social Influence." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 110, no. 2 (November 2009): 152–159.
    • 26 Feb 2021
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    Harvard professor: Focusing on time instead of money can make you happier ― here’s how

    • Teaching Interest

    IFC Asia: China's Belt & Road Initiative

    By: Willy C. Shih

    The course objective is to provide students perspectives and insight into one of the major political and economic development programs of China – its Belt and Road Initiative, a strategy that involves infrastructure development and investments in countries spanning... View Details

    Keywords: China; Globalization; Trade; Infrastructure; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Central Asia
    • September 2012
    • Case

    Natural Gas

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon Tarontsi
    In an overview of natural gas as a fossil fuel and traded commodity, the case describes various regional markets of natural gas, highlighting diversity of price formation mechanisms across and within those markets. Recent changes in the economics of unconventional... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Strategy; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Mining Industry
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    Abdelal, Rawi, and Sogomon Tarontsi. "Natural Gas." Harvard Business School Case 713-020, September 2012.
    • 21 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

    HBS alumni over the past few years, I have been fortunate to meet quite a few of the pioneers in the impact industry in the region and I see the clubs' platform as a powerful way to leverage the voices of and connect those pioneers. For... View Details
    • February 2018
    • Case

    The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

    By: Joseph Fuller, William Kerr, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama
    The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and tubing... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Development Economics; Change; Leadership; Success; Mississippi
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    Fuller, Joseph, William Kerr, Manjari Raman, and Donald Maruyama. "The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-089, February 2018.
    • 27 Oct 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

    The Entrepreneurs Of The Soconusco A protégée of historian John Womack, Lurtz took an interest in Latin American economics while an undergrad at Harvard College. As a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, she spent more than a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • 21 May 2019
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    Getting to Know 2019 Class Day Student Speaker Brandon Rapp

      Pietro Satriano

      Pietro Satriano is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School.  He sits on the boards of CarMax, the largest omni-channel used car retailer in the U.S. and Metro, a large regional grocery retailer in Canada.  Pietro advises a number of food-tech startups and acts... View Details

      • 07 Aug 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

      Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford
      • November 1996 (Revised March 2001)
      • Case

      Sime Darby Berhad (A): 1995

      By: Tarun Khanna, Michael Y. Yoshino and Danielle J. Melito
      Sime Darby is one of South Asia's largest regional conglomerates. In 1995, it is contemplating entry into the fast-growing financial services sector in Malaysia through the acquisition of a Malaysian bank. This is in keeping with its activities mirroring those of the... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Economy; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Malaysia
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      Khanna, Tarun, Michael Y. Yoshino, and Danielle J. Melito. "Sime Darby Berhad (A): 1995." Harvard Business School Case 797-017, November 1996. (Revised March 2001.)

        Tarun Khanna

        Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

        • August 1993 (Revised January 1994)
        • Case

        Prochnik: Privatization of a Polish Clothing Manufacturer

        Prochnik was a large state-owned clothing manufacturer located in the textile-production-intensive region of Lodz, Poland. In the early months of economic reform, Prochnik was one of the first five state enterprises to be privatized through initial public offerings and... View Details
        Keywords: Restructuring; Privatization; State Ownership; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Poland
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        Loveman, Gary W., and David T. Kotchen. "Prochnik: Privatization of a Polish Clothing Manufacturer." Harvard Business School Case 394-038, August 1993. (Revised January 1994.)
        • 2018
        • Working Paper

        Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970

        By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
        This working paper provides a new perspective on how businesses have responded to political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. The existing business history literature on political risk is focused on the experiences of Western... View Details
        Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Risk Management; Government and Politics; Business History; South Asia; Latin America
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        Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-102, May 2018.
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