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  • 28 Jan 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Scott Duke Kominers; Technology

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

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    The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

    By: Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
    A large body of literature on state–business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to that literature and understanding of the internal differentiation among... View Details
    Keywords: China's Political Economy; State-business Relations; Business Groups; Financial System; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Economic Systems; China
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    Competitive Strategy

    By: Michael E. Porter

    Porter is engaged in a major new body of work on the theoretical foundations of competitive positioning and the underpinnings of sustainable competitive advantage. This research highlights the distinction between positioning and operational effectiveness; the... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Building Effective Relationships Across Cultures

    Trust is the foundation of any successful collaborative relationship. In my first stream of research, I draw on the basic distinction between cognition-based versus affect-based trust– that is, trust from the head versus trust from the heart – to better... View Details
    • 2014
    • Book

    Business History

    By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones
    This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction describes the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History
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    Competing on a Common Platform

    Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
    • 18 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 18

    the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Doctoral

    Organizational Behavior Professor Shunyuan Zhang Marketing Student Research Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations By: Simon Essig Aberg 02 JUN 2025 | Faculty & View Details

      Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

      Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
      • 20 Dec 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

      Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao
      • Research Summary

      A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

        Leonard A. Schlesinger

        Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

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        PhD Programs - Doctoral

        requirements and curriculum, read student profiles as well as student research , and placement information. The PhD in Business Administration grounds students in the disciplinary theories and research... View Details

          Lynn S. Paine

          Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

          • May 2000
          • Article

          Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

          By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
          This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
          Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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          • July 2013
          • Technical Note

          Competition Simulator Exercise: Questions

          By: Eric Van den Steen
          In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the simulator lets students explore horizontal differentiation with and without price... View Details
          Keywords: Economics Of Strategy; Economics Of Competition; Competition; Economics; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy
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          • 08 Nov 2016
          • First Look

          November 8, 2016

          quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • 30 Oct 2007
          • First Look

          First Look: October 30, 2007

          multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            W. Earl Sasser

            Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

            Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation