Publications

May 2012
Module Note

RC Strategy – Global Strategy Module

By: David J. Collis

Conceptual note that describes effective global strategy. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Global Range

Article

Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

By: Jeffrey Furman, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn and Rebecca M. Henderson

Keywords: Geographic Location; Knowledge; Health; Research

May 2004
Article

New Frontiers in International Strategy

By: Joan Enric Ricart, Michael J. Enright, Pankaj Ghemawat, Stuart Hart and Tarun Khanna

Keywords: Strategy; Global Range

April 2002
Article

Caveats for Cross-Border Negotiators

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation; Global Range

Article

Innovation: Location Matters

By: M. E. Porter and Scott Stern

Innovation has become the defining challenge for global competitiveness. To manage it well, companies must harness the power of location in creating and commercialiazing new ideas. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Geographic Location

Career Coach

HuQing Piemonte

HuQing worked for more than 30 years in universities as a career and immigration advisor, including 23 years at Harvard. As an immigrant who came to the United States as a graduate student, she understands the challenges associated with being an international student,... View Details

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Henry Chen, Anna Kovner, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 1996 (Revised May 1996)
Teaching Note

Fidelity Investments: Spartan Florida Municipal Fund (TN)

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee

Keywords: City; Investment Funds; Florida

2021
Working Paper

Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

By: Christopher Stanton and Pratyush Tiwari

This paper estimates housing choice differences between households with and without remote workers. Prior to the pandemic, the expenditure share on housing was more than seven percent higher for remote households compared to similar non-remote households in the same... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Geographic Mobility; Housing; Cost; Geographic Location; Income

January 2015 (Revised January 2018)
Technical Note

Note on Comparative Capitalism

By: Clayton S. Rose and Rebecca Henderson

This note draws on academic work, as well as social and economic data across several countries, to provide a basic understanding of some of the differences among capitalist systems. It begins with a description of the system of capitalism, and characteristics that to a... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Global; Economic Systems; Global Range; Japan; Germany; China; United States; Sweden

Educators

May 2001
Article

Competing at Home to Win Abroad: Evidence from Japanese History

By: Mariko Sakakibara and Michael E. Porter

The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is measured directly using market-share instability rather than employing structural variables such as... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Global Range; History; Japan

May 2011 (Revised March 2013)
Background Note

Location Choice for New Ventures: Cities

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the cluster... View Details

Keywords: City; Business Startups

Educators

May 2003
Book Review

Review of Entrepreneurship in Vietnam: Transformation and Dynamics edited by Per Ronnas and Bhargavi Ramamurthy

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Transformation; Global Range; Viet Nam

04 Nov 2016
News

A Solo Sail Around the World

website provides a teacher’s guide and a 15-week curriculum focused on science, math, geography and history. Wilson said he expected to spend about two hours a day working on material for the site, which also provides input from and... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

digital tools for communication. But in work, we still tend to use face-to-face meetings. How does location or geographic mobility affect innovation? Choudhury: Knowledge is often locked in a geography, and when a worker moves from one View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Web

Social Media - Alumni

Social Media Social Media Social Home Creating Alumni Groups Connecting the HBS network Tips for creating alumni groups Want to help the HBS community connect around professional and social interests, events, or geography within social... View Details

2008
Working Paper

The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

By: William R. Kerr

The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States

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