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- 08 Dec 2020
- News
Why Trump’s Visa Ban Cost Fortune 500 Firms $100 Billion
- 25 Aug 2018
- News
`Amazon Effect' May Make Central Bank Job Harder
- February 2007 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Li & Fung 2006
By: F. Warren McFarlan, William C. Kirby and Tracy Manty
Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding demand for its services. Li & Fung links thousands of factories in India, China, and elsewhere to nearly... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Supply Chain Management; Distribution Channels; Global Range; Strategy; Information Technology; Service Industry; Distribution Industry; China; India; United States; Europe
McFarlan, F. Warren, William C. Kirby, and Tracy Manty. "Li & Fung 2006." Harvard Business School Case 307-077, February 2007. (Revised May 2007.)
- 23 Mar 2017
- News
No Deal, Grading President Trump, Tito Jackson
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
Summing Up Krishnamurthy suggested that a return of mercantilism is not a threat, and that "the present dilemma is probably an aberration that will taper off in due course." Alejandro Ocana stated bluntly, "Global... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2014
- News
12 ideas for making Boston more inclusive
- 25 Mar 2014
- News
Can China’s Economic System Overcome its Political System?
- April 2009
- Case
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Michael Pirson and Patricia Mangas
bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Investment; Investment Return; Rural Scope; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Internet; Telecommunications Industry; Bangladesh
Ebrahim, Alnoor, Michael Pirson, and Patricia Mangas. "Brummer and the bracNet Investment." Harvard Business School Case 309-065, April 2009.
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Obama’s Technology Legacy
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
Sofia Guerra (MBA 2021) learned that in order “to build a more resilient economy we need to be able to understand and measure the impact of climate change on businesses. Only when we quantify physical and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- News
The chip shortage is getting worse
- May–June 2015
- Article
Dead Weight: How Greece Wound up Trapped in the European Union
By: Debora L. Spar
In the early 1990s, Greece fell far afield of the economic criteria laid out by the Maastricht Treaty, the EU's founding document. In 1999, when the European monetary union was launched, Greece failed to meet the criteria again, but managed to squeeze into the body two... View Details
Spar, Debora L. "Dead Weight: How Greece Wound up Trapped in the European Union." Foreign Policy 212 (May–June 2015).
- 2009
- Chapter
Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanczuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Developing Countries and Economies; Wages; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods
Alfaro, Laura, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences." In NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2008, edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Christopher Pissarides. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanczuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Developing Countries and Economies; Wages; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods
Alfaro, Laura, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14060, June 2008.
- March 2016 (Revised May 2020)
- Technical Note
A Brief Note on Global Antitrust
By: Dennis Yao, David Yoffie, Eric Baldwin, Daniel Fisher and Rachel Salisbury
This brief note explores the critical antitrust legal and policy issues facing managers, especially in the world of technology. View Details
Yao, Dennis, David Yoffie, Eric Baldwin, Daniel Fisher, and Rachel Salisbury. "A Brief Note on Global Antitrust." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-432, March 2016. (Revised May 2020.)
- 23 Aug 2019
- News
Can capitalism be saved by a concept born in Boston?
- 16 Oct 2017
- News