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  • January 2001 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

By: James E. Austin and Kim Slack
Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) is a $74 million nonprofit social enterprise that combats poverty by helping community development organizations build affordable housing and create economic development opportunities through public-private partnerships. Poses a... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Development Economics; Education; Capital; Investment Funds; Taxation; Growth and Development; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Segmentation; Service Industry
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Austin, James E., and Kim Slack. "Local Initiatives Support Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 301-124, January 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
  • March 2007
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Local Company Politics: A Proposal

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Corrupt politicians, and poor government more generally, are commonly viewed as a primary barrier to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success.... View Details
Keywords: Behavior
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Fisman, Raymond, and Eric D. Werker. "Local Company Politics: A Proposal." Capitalism and Society 2, no. 1 (March 2007).
  • 06 May 2013
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Philanthropy And Locality

  • September–October 1995
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When Local Goes Global

By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Global Range; Local Range
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Kanter, R. M. "When Local Goes Global." World Link (September–October 1995).
  • 01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally

When HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1973, it was his first experience living outside the United States. “I had three degrees from Harvard, and my major lifetime move had been from the western suburbs of Boston to Cambridge,” he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 12 Feb 2008
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Ethics Must Be Global, Not Local

  • March 2012
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All Business Is Local

By: John A. Quelch
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Quelch, John A. "All Business Is Local." Hafo shang ye ping lun [Harvard Business Review, Chinese edition] (March 2012): 36.
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Supporting Global Understanding, Locally

Suzan Sabanci Dincer Suzan Sabanci Dincer has been a key partner with HBS since the opening of the School’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Research Center in Istanbul in 2013. “The center is a continuation of HBS’s efforts to build a deep understanding of and... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
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Think globally, crowdfund locally

E ric Sonnier (MBA 2014) cofounded Local Lift (formerly Equity Endeavor) to help small businesses find the resources to make enhancements to their operations. The crowdfunding platform Sonnier launched with HBS classmate Broderick... View Details
  • March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
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ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria

By: Meg Rithmire and Debora L. Spar
In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems. Her firm partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a large project to develop the local dairy industry as a way to facilitate equitable growth and... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Rural Scope; Growth and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Equality and Inequality; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; Nigeria
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Rithmire, Meg, and Debora L. Spar. "ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 721-026, March 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
  • August 1988
  • Background Note

Note on Local Marketing

By: John A. Quelch
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Quelch, John A. "Note on Local Marketing." Harvard Business School Background Note 589-023, August 1988.
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Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?

By: Robert S. Huckman
National retailers, most notably Walmart and Best Buy, are making big bets on their ability to fill this need for local health care. At first glance, these moves are a bit surprising given that these companies have not traditionally been focused on health care... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Local Range; Retail Industry; Health Industry
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Huckman, Robert S. "Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?" Harvard Business Review (website) (October 25, 2019).
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How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

By: William R. Kerr
This article identifies how digital businesses need to be adapted to the local environment in which they are being applied. Core ideas include the development of strong barriers to entry, the types of network effects encountered, and the localization of business... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Information Technology; Geographic Location; Market Entry and Exit; Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Network Effects
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Kerr, William R. "How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 24, 2015).
  • 04 Mar 2011
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Local consultants aided Khadafy

  • 22 Sep 2015
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Working on the Local Level

solution-oriented, solution-minded. If you see yourself as a problem solver or a policy entrepreneur and you want to do the work that helps people, being at the local level right now affords you great opportunity to have real impact.”... View Details
  • 2010
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Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study

Background: Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving health care quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance; Health Industry; United States
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Blustein, Jan, William Borden, and Melissa Valentine. "Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study." PLoS Medicine 7, no. 6 (2010).
  • April 2002
  • Background Note

Local Institutions and Global Strategy

By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning
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Khanna, Tarun. "Local Institutions and Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-475, April 2002.
  • August 1983 (Revised July 1984)
  • Technical Note

Local Area Networks, Technical Note

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Porter, Leslie R., and John J. Sviokla. "Local Area Networks, Technical Note." Harvard Business School Technical Note 184-015, August 1983. (Revised July 1984.)
  • January 2022
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Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?

By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino and Timothy McQuade
We examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise. We identify local demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm... View Details
Keywords: Firms; Entrepreneurs; Demand Shocks; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Demographics; Opportunities; Brazil
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Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino, and Timothy McQuade. "Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?" Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1 (January 2022): 107–130.
  • June 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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L'Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson
Worldwide, and in the U.S. marketplace in particular, the French cachet of L'Oréal was one of its most powerful marketing tools. However, with the opening up of emerging markets, L'Oréal had to cater to a diverse customer base: an aging population in the West, ethnic... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Change Management; Sales; Emerging Markets; Segmentation; Innovation and Invention; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; France; United States
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "L'Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge." Harvard Business School Case 311-118, June 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
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