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Clusters, Cluster Policy, and Swedish Competitiveness in the Global Economy
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Proximity enables firms to take advantage of knowledge spill-overs and exploit supplier demand linkages with other entities engaged in related activities. Cluster strength thus seems to be one of the important determinants of prosperity differences across geographies.... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Clusters, Cluster Policy, and Swedish Competitiveness in the Global Economy."
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
encourage an exchange of knowledge and experience. "The finalists were chosen from among three hundred entries sent in from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States," said HBSAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA 1974). "Playing an... View Details
- 2006
- Book
Japan Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy: Advanced Knowledge—Creating Companies
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Tsutomu Shibata
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, and Tsutomu Shibata. Japan Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy: Advanced Knowledge—Creating Companies. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Institute (WBI), 2006.
- Web
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2025 | Working Knowledge
dynamics of immigrant integration. It is a crucial read for anyone seeking clarity in the increasingly heated and polarized debate on immigration. Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy... View Details
- Web
RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies Course Number 1195 Professor Matthew Weinzierl Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Paper Course Overview and Objectives This course is about one question: What is the proper... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
driving the economy and improving society, shockingly little is understood about them. The data and analysis emerging from HBS will provide important insights that can help answer the questions, “What makes a successful entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
that body of knowledge was derived primarily from companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. But as emerging markets in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America continue to grow, so does an interest in how they came to be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
change observation and trying to fix some of the biggest problems on Earth, the space economy is now interwoven in our everyday lives,” says Weinzierl, who is also the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration.... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
the size of government and amount of state services. Paula Rettl spoke to Working Knowledge about her research examining these trends in Italy, Brazil and around the world. A native of Brazil, Rettl is an assistant professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2012
- Book
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power... View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Ethnicity Characteristics; Economics; Great Britain; United States
McCraw, Thomas K. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Research Summary
Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"
My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details
- Research Summary
Industrial competitiveness in high tech and science-based businesses
By: Willy C. Shih
How do emerging economies develop industrial and technical capabilities that overtake those of advanced economies? Are there some industrial sectors that are especially susceptible to such targeting? What will it take to restore America’s... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 2013
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850
By: G. Jones
This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013.
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy is a collection of Harvard Business Review articles edited by Jeffery E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management. At the dawn of the new century, says Garten, "globalization has... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- August 2008
- Article
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537.
- 22 Feb 2012
- News
Employee Happiness Matters More Than You Think
- 13 Jan 2019
- News
Why Silicon Valley needs more visas
- May 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Health City Cayman Islands
By: Tarun Khanna and Budhaditya Gupta
Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model worldwide, Dr. Shetty, Chairman of... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Emerging Economies; Innovation; India; Institutions; Pricing; Replication; Strategy; Narayana Health; Ascension; Health City Cayman Islands; Dr. Devi Shetty; International Business; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Disruptive Innovation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Adaptation; Adoption; India; Cayman Islands
Khanna, Tarun, and Budhaditya Gupta. "Health City Cayman Islands." Harvard Business School Case 714-510, May 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- 2014
- Chapter
Firms and Global Capitalism
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work that traces the history of capitalism from its origins to the present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; American History; Economic History; Business History; Labor History; Slavery; Numeracy And Quantification; Science And Technology Studies; History Of The Book; International Investment; International Business; International Marketing; Globalization; History
Jones, Geoffrey. "Firms and Global Capitalism." Chap. 6 in The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present, edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, 169–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.