Local Economic Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

1999
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The New Challenge to America’s Prosperity: Findings from the Innovation Index

A comparison and projection of the innovation capabilities of the U.S. and 24 other nations based on a new set of quantitative indicators. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

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14 Nov 2011
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New York City’s Anchor Institutions: From Social Responsibility to Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter

Professor Michael E. Porter: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

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25 Feb 2004
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Competitiveness in Rural U.S. Regions: Learning and Research Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels, Kaia K. Miller and Richard Bryden

Competitiveness in Rural U.S. Regions: Learning and Research Agenda View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

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22 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights

compared to 60% of Americans overall and 53% of senior citizens. Millennials are now the largest group in the U.S. workforce and are essential to recruitment, brand, and consumer strategies. The public opinion shift they are driving has a wide range of View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

discipline. I was (and still am) at the nascent stages of my leadership development and in order to capitalize on my full potential, I knew I had to receive formal training that challenged my perceptions of what the combination of... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

June 1990
Teaching Note

Ashamu Holdings Ltd. (B) (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Mining Industry; Nigeria

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September 2011 (Revised July 2013)
Case

Pakistan: Is Foreign Aid Helping or Hindering Development?

By: Aldo Musacchio, Ada Chu, Shahnawaz Nawabi, Jonathan Schlefer and Emil Staykov

Keywords: Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; Pakistan

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April 1990 (Revised February 1994)
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Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Nicaragua

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29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

seen the inner city as a separate part of the economic landscape. Almost always, he said, entrepreneurs would rather borrow money from a leading local bank than from a community View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Doing Business in New Delhi, India

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak

The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India

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07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

and how these differences in terms of economic development affect appropriate policy choices. In particular, questions arise as to the role of cluster initiatives, an instrument that has become more widely... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Kaki Ettinger

experienced. How has Harvard Business School prepared you for your current role and your long term career? Every aspect of HBS, from my classmates and professors to Career & Professional Development and the amazingly responsive alumni... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

as a virtue. "It was a remarkably nimble organization," she explains, "with revolutionary principles and a transformational agenda that focused on supporting local organizations and leaders and bringing a business approach to effecting... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

Zingales, who discussed the real effects of local financial development. The second day of presentations focused on economic development and context. "While virtually all... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

of violations, as well as the dollar amount of penalties, at firms’ local facilities after a local newspaper folded and compared those figures with a control group in an area where a newspaper continued to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman