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04 Feb 2014
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VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

equity investing and fundraising to geography specific investment opportunities,” said Alex Kleiner, Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2014 and Co-President of the Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference. “We hope to initiate a... View Details

29 Oct 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Karim R. Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Nabil Khan, Saba Kohli Davé, Rasim Alam, and Meena Hewett

May 2018
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Joacim Tag, Michael Webb and Stefanie Wolter

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these... View Details

Keywords: Large Firms; Wages; Global Range; Sweden; United Kingdom; Brazil; Germany

July–August 1991
Article

The Boundaries of Business: The Developing-Country Difference

By: J. E. Austin

Keywords: Business Ventures; Global Range

December 2018
Case

Formula E Championship Racing (A)

By: Robert F. Higgins and James Weber

Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag obtained the rights to develop a new electric car racing series from the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Agag needed to develop the series from scratch—developing a race car and finding teams willing to race,... View Details

Keywords: Electric Car Racing; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Strategy

Educators

23 Sep 1992
Lecture

Economic Strategies for a Global Economy

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Strategy; Economics; Global Range

February 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Background Note

Offshore Corporations: A Brief Introduction

Examines activities of offshore financial centers. The text documents the growth and uses of offshore corporations. View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Business Headquarters

Educators

January 1997 (Revised May 1997)
Background Note

Country Analysis: A Framework to Identify and Evaluate the National Business Environment

A manager's ability to build profitable firms depends upon the business environment within which firms interact. This note presents a framework to help understand, anticipate, and perhaps foster changes in the business environment. Describes building a picture of the... View Details

Keywords: Country; Analysis; Macroeconomics

Educators

Article

Liquidity Events and the Geographic Distribution of Organizational Foundings

Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Geography; Organizations

November 1989
Case

Gruppo Ferruzzi: A New Global Company

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Business Ventures; Global Range

1978
Other Unpublished Work

Baseline Analysis of the Urban Homesteading Program

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Housing; Programs; Urban Scope

Fast Answer

Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

education, and veteran status. See list of survey subjects. United States Census: Business and Economy - Business and... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Fıelds of Gold

expensive foods, retailing at $4,000 or more a pound. Iran is the largest producer of this highly prized spice, which stains food a brilliant golden hue, but David Luo (MBA 2011) believes that Afghanistan could become the world’s top-quality producer. The country’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

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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

December 2020
Article

Taking Innovation to the Streets: Micro-geography, Physical Structure and Innovation

By: Maria P. Roche

In this paper, we analyze how the physical layout of cities affects innovation by influencing the organization of knowledge exchange. We exploit a novel data set covering all Census Block Groups in the contiguous United States with information on innovation outcomes,... View Details

Keywords: Microgeography; Innovation; Street Infrastructure; Knowledge Exchange; Interactions; Geography; City; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing

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February 4, 2017
Article

Historical Transformations in Boundary and Land Use in New Delhi's Urban Villages

By: Sudev J Sheth

New Delhi’s “urban villages” are the result of government land acquisitions that began in 1912 and continued into the 1960s. Since the 1980s, growing demand for real estate within the city has engendered unprecedented residential and commercial development in these... View Details

Keywords: India; Urban Planning; Eminent Domain; Land Politics; Real Estate; History; City; Planning; Urban Scope; India; Delhi