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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

  • 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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    • April 2011 (Revised December 2017)
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    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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    • October 2000 (Revised June 2017)
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    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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    • 09 Feb 2010
    • News

    Global Award for Entrepreneurship

    • 28 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Yas Motoyama, Kauffman Foundation

    • 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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    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
    • November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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    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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    • 17 Sep 2010
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    IBM in Lithuania Shows `Investment Czar' May Beat Baltic Rivals

    • 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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    • 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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    • July 2005 (Revised March 2007)
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    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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    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
    • March 2008 (Revised April 2009)
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    The Xiamen PX Project: The Rule of Contract or Citizens in China Today

    This case examines the effect of environmental activism on China's investment climate, focusing on the petrochemical sector. It shows how tensions between a country's national economic development goals and political constraints make for a more unpredictable investment... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict and Resolution; China
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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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