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  • November 1996 (Revised March 2001)
  • Background Note

National Income Accounting

Introduces the concept of national income accounting. This note: 1) defines GDP and provides examples; 2) discusses the differences between GDP and GNP; 3) presents both the expenditure and income decompositions of GDP; and 4) defines the relationships among net... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Macroeconomics
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Kennedy, Robert E. "National Income Accounting." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-075, November 1996. (Revised March 2001.)
  • 1990
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The Competitive Advantage of Nations

By: M. E. Porter
In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Economics
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Porter, M. E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York: Free Press, 1990. (Republished with a new introduction, 1998.)
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
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Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided

Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2011
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Obama Retools Economic Team

  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Drive-In Nation

emotional and intellectual, not just financial. This is a big deal.” With the auto industry’s problems, globalization’s “creative destruction” is evident as never before to many Americans, as is the fear that the country may no longer be able to sustain an View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 17 Oct 2007
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The Role of Construction, Housing, and Real Estate in Inner City Economic Development: Towards a National Research Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter
Presentation delivered during the Inner City Economic Forum in Philadelphia, PA. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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Porter, Michael E. "The Role of Construction, Housing, and Real Estate in Inner City Economic Development: Towards a National Research Agenda." Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2007.
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Sustainable Inner-City Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter is using the framework he developed in The Competitive Advantage of Nations to examine the economic development problems in distressed inner-city areas. He seeks to understand the potential of inner-city businesses, government policies, and... View Details
  • December 1998
  • Case

Origins of National Income Accounting

By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder
Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932 proposal for the federal government to begin collecting national income statistics. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; United States
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Moss, David A., and Joseph P Gownder. "Origins of National Income Accounting." Harvard Business School Case 799-080, December 1998.
  • 2000
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Understanding the Drivers of National Innovative Capacity

By: Jeffrey L. Furman, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
Motivated by R&D productivity differences across countries, we evaluate the determinants of country-level international patenting. Our framework is built on the concept of national innovative capacity. Our results suggest that (a) patenting is well-characterized... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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Furman, Jeffrey L., Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern. "Understanding the Drivers of National Innovative Capacity." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2000).
  • February 2014
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National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa." Quarterly Journal of Economics 129, no. 1 (February 2014): 151–213.
  • 2012
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The Determinants of National Competitiveness

By: Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than... View Details
Keywords: Country; Competition; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
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Delgado, Mercedes, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern. "The Determinants of National Competitiveness." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18249, July 2012.

    National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

    We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence... View Details

    • November 2022
    • Technical Note

    National Security and Transnational Capitalism

    By: Meg Rithmire
    Though the relationship between national security and transnational commerce had long been interrogated and contested, the 2020s saw the escalation of concerns about insecurity and interdependence. These concerns manifested in a suite of institutional innovations and... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; National Security; Globalization
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    Rithmire, Meg. "National Security and Transnational Capitalism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 723-016, November 2022.
    • 1998
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    The Competitive Advantage of Nations

    By: M. E. Porter
    In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth. View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Economics
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    Porter, M. E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. 2nd ed. New York: Free Press, 1998. (1st ed. New York: Free Press, 1990.)
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    Prospects (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Conference Board (login required)   Scroll to menu at bottom of the page and select Global View Details
    • 2009
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    Clusters and Economic Policy: Aligning Public Policy with the New Economics of Competition

    By: Michael E. Porter
    The fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable goods and services. High and rising productivity,... View Details
    Keywords: Economics
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    Porter, Michael E. "Clusters and Economic Policy: Aligning Public Policy with the New Economics of Competition." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, October 2009.
    • April 2017 (Revised August 2020)
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    The U-Turns of National Truck Stops

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Alexander W. Schultz
    Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (Oaktree) Mezzanine finance business within their Corporate Debt platform. It was the first time they... View Details
    Keywords: Mezzanine Financing; Corporate Debt; Bankruptcy; Real Assets; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Atlanta; New York (city, NY)
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    Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Alexander W. Schultz. "The U-Turns of National Truck Stops." Harvard Business School Case 217-062, April 2017. (Revised August 2020.)
    • August 2002
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    The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

    By: Jeffrey L. Furman, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
    Motivated by differences in innovation intensity across advanced economies, this paper presents an empirical examination of the determinants of country-level production of international patents. We introduce a novel framework based on the concept of national innovative... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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    Furman, Jeffrey L., Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern. "The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity." Research Policy 31, no. 6 (August 2002): 899–933.
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    The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,... View Details
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