Local Economic Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

intelligence of students and faculty. The centers assist faculty with research and case writing, strengthen relationships with local alumni and practitioners, facilitate faculty and student immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and... View Details

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

crafting Senegal's post-pandemic economic recovery plan and an emergency youth-jobs plan; working with the country’s health ministry to set up a local vaccine manufacturing plant; securing vaccines for the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

02 Mar 2015
News

To Market, To Market

that integrates livestock and sustainable agriculture,” says Ferrari. “We come at it from a community development perspective. We do a lot of work preparing villages to engage in the relatively harsh world of markets. It’s hard for them.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

March 1998
Case

Collapse in Asia: 1997-1998

By: George C. Lodge and Anthony St. George

Discusses the Asian crisis and economists' opinions and solutions. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Asia

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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

2004
Chapter

The Harrod-Domar Model

By: Diego Comin

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Economic Growth; Development Economics; Capital

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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

01 Sep 2015
News

An Unconventional Suggestion

Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than... View Details

Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities

nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

22 Sep 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

CEO of Competitiveness.com, he brings experience in nearly 200 economic development initiatives in Europe and Latin America to his World Bank job. Comparing his previous View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

A World of Information at Your Fingertips

database of 3.5 million companies, and Vault, a career development Web site. The service also provides seven business research sources without charge, including: databases from the Organisation for Economic... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned enterprises by outside... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

Working to protect the environment has been my passion for as long as I can remember. My father was my earliest inspiration. As an officer in the Indian Forest Service, he devoted his life to balancing day to day realities of economic... View Details

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

Archdiocese of Washington. As strategist for the Washington, DC, office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Lina Feng continued at the job after finishing her fellowship in 2013 and is now a student at HBS. “There... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Sasha Grinshpun

Company), Product Development and Innovation Consulting (IDEO), Economic Development (Michael Porter's C-MECS), VP of Sales and Business View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

01 Apr 2000
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Porter's Paradox

associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local View Details

29 Jul 2024
News

Leading the Way

Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details