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  • April 1999
  • Background Note

Note on the Caspian Oil Pipelines

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
The Caspian region may become one of the world's next major energy producers. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-all former Soviet republics--hold vast and largely undeveloped reserves of oil and gas, but the region's export infrastructure is nearly... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Non-Renewable Energy; Investment; Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Outcome or Result; Projects; Natural Environment; Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan
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  • 20 May 2022
  • News

Guiding Finance: China’s Strategy for Funding Advanced Manufacturing

  • September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
  • Case

Summit Distributors (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Legal Services Industry
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  • Research Summary

Macroeconomic management

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Richard H. K. Vietor has been studying how national governments foster economic development and compete in a globalized economy. He has been researching these activities in ten countries, publishing the results first in 2007, in a book entitled How Countries... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2021
  • News

MBA Students are Barnstorming the Space Industry

  • March 2012
  • Article

Choosing the United States

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
The U.S. is not winning its appropriate share of location decisions, even those involving the high-value-adding activities that the country has long been able to attract. In part, this is because U.S. policy makers are not addressing weaknesses in the national business... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; United States
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  • December 2011 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

Samasource: Give Work, Not Aid

By: Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
Samasource sought to use work, not aid, for economic development. The company secured contracts for digital services from large companies in the United States and Europe, divided the work up into small pieces (called microwork) and then sent it to delivery centers in... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise
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    Forest L. Reinhardt

    Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

    Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation
    • 2012
    • Book

    Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon and Felda Hardymon
    Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship stems from a realization that private equity overall—defined in this volume as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a vastly more sizable and influential part of the... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship
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    • 17 Jul 2012
    • News

    Rivals clash on US corporate tax reform

    • January 11, 2024
    • Article

    Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case

    By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Andrei Hagiu and Dionne Lomax
    Regulators in the United States and Europe have been taking on Big Tech, challenging what they say are the companies’ anti-competitive and predatory strategies that harm consumers and third-party users of their platforms. This article examines the FTC’s case against... View Details
    Keywords: Monopoly; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Design; Lawsuits and Litigation
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    • April 2011 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Latvia: Navigating the Strait of Messina

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Rawi Abdelal and Natalie Kindred
    This case describes Latvia's transition from a Soviet republic into an EU member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Economic Growth; Policy; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Latvia
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    My research lies in the intersection of economic growth and political economy focusing on the role of historical legacies, biogeography and culture in shaping contemporary economic performance. As growth economists our understanding of comparative economic development... View Details
    • October 2000 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision

    By: Robert Simons and Indra A. Reinbergs
    In 2016, the new CEO of Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals introduces an Economic Value Added (EVA) program to focus the company on long-term shareholder value. The EVA program consists of three elements: EVA centers (business units), EVA drivers (operational practices that... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Washington (state, US)
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    • 17 Sep 2010
    • News

    IBM in Lithuania Shows `Investment Czar' May Beat Baltic Rivals

    • 19 Oct 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Alden Young, Drexel University

    • 18 Apr 2002
    • Other Presentation

    Basque Competitiveness

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Regional competitiveness presentation in Bilbao, Basque Country. View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Spain
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    • January 2013 (Revised November 2016)
    • Case

    The New Carolina Initiative

    By: Michael E. Porter and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo
    The New Carolina Initiative case explores the process of fostering competitiveness in the subnational region, South Carolina, one of the poorest states in the United States. The case has been developed primarily for use in the course "Microeconomics of... View Details
    Keywords: Public Sector; Poverty; Competitive Strategy; Private Sector; Economic Growth; South Carolina
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    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy

    By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels, Mercedes Delgado and Richard Bryden
    In early 2006, the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) in Moscow commissioned Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a review of the existing evidence on Russian competitiveness. The objective of this report is to synthesize, interpret, and draw implications... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Russia
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    • November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
    • Case

    Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base

    By: William W. George
    Since the 1970s, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region (MSP) had outpaced the nation in job creation and income per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Clusters; Employment; Organizations; Transformation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
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