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  • February 1993 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

India (A)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Waleed J. Iskandar and Max L. Weston
Outlines India's import substitution strategy and its planned development process. The effects of the difficult political and social context on economic development are analyzed. The failure of the system to achieve sustainable growth and improvement leads to attempts... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Ethnicity; Development Economics; Trade; Economic Growth; Policy; Government and Politics; India
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  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

about the increasing severity of the patent system's problems, and the negative effects that they were having on firms. While these issues had been widely recognized by practitioners, and had been the subject of weighty, footnote-laden reports by such bodies as the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

House of Representatives on September 10, 2009. The subject of the hearing: "The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes." [Webcast]... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

including working- and middle-class Americans, are struggling, as are many small businesses. The single biggest thorn in the economy’s side: our dysfunctional political system. While many political leaders individually agree with the federal View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

corporations back off and issue short-term instead. We called this "gap-filling," in the sense that firms fill in the gaps created by government financing policy. In that paper, we had thought about government maturity policy as... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in teamwork. The English workforce redesign experience offers important lessons for U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

strong—and mainly Chinese-dominated—business class. In this context, FDI as well as public sector firms proved very valuable in a political sense. Huang stresses that he does not question the political rationale behind those policies that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide. A description of government policies since 1994 enables... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a resounding “no,” as evidenced by the investment View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
Teaching Note for 709007. View Details
Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Natural Environment; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Australia
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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and public View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2010
  • Report

Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh and Do Hong Hanh
The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal for an economic strategy to enable Vietnam to reach a higher level of sustainable growth.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Labor; Industry Clusters; Performance Capacity; Performance Productivity; Competitive Strategy
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  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

reported in the trade literature are used to illustrate policy issues as well as the spillover effects and resolution of disputes. To cope with these developments, two significant changes in conflict View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Consequences of Export Controls in Target Countries

By: Xueyue Liu, Yu Liu and Jaya Y. Wen
Export controls are a common instrument of national security, but their economic consequences are not well understood. This paper evaluates how these controls affect firm performance and adaptation in targeted countries. We use variation in a 2007 US policy,... View Details
Keywords: National Security; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Performance Productivity; Adaptation
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  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

something that has been rarely analyzed. Why do you think this aspect of the role of government has been ignored? A: While it is true that risk management has never before been viewed as a function of government, nearly all of the underlying View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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