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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
    • 20 May 2022
    • News

    Guiding Finance: China’s Strategy for Funding Advanced Manufacturing

    • 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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    • 19 Oct 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Alden Young, Drexel University

    • 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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    • 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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    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

    • Research Summary

    International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital... 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

    • 09 Feb 2010
    • News

    Global Award for Entrepreneurship

    • 28 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Yas Motoyama, Kauffman Foundation

    • 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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    • Working Paper

    Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

    By: Lant Pritchett and Eric D. Werker
    Two key unanswered questions in theories of growth are (a) why some countries successfully initiate episodes of rapid growth while others suffer extended stagnation and (b) why some countries are able to sustain growth episodes over many decades of rapid (or steady)... View Details
    Keywords: Elite Commitment; Inclusive Growth; Status and Position; Rank and Position; Economic Growth
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    • July 2005 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Kansai Digital Phone: Zutto, Gaining Japanese Loyalty

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and James Robert Dillon
    Ted Katagi, marketing strategy manager of Kansai Digital Phone (KDP), utilizes customer lifetime value as a key metric to prioritize initiatives in an emergency plan to turn around the company. KDP is a regional phone company in Japan with less than stellar... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan; United States
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    • June 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: The Megafarms of CP Group

    By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-150. The case introduces students to an innovative new agricultural venture on the outskirts of Beijing. It can be used as a platform to discuss broader issues of agricultural policy reform and regional disparities in social and... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Policy; Economic Growth; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Thailand
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    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
    Keywords: Institutions; Ethnicity; Economic Growth; Development Economics; Macroeconomics; Culture; Religion; Africa; Asia
    • 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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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics
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