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- 28 Jan 2014
- Other Presentation
Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham
The ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012). View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham." Chairman’s Luncheon, Birmingham Business Alliance, Birmingham, AL, January 28, 2014.
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
pessimist on the subject? Why? What’s your projection of US growth and prosperity? What do you think? Related Reading: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Jan 2014
- Keynote Speech
Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham
Porter, Michael E. "Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham." Chairman’s Luncheon, Birmingham Business Alliance, Birmingham, AL, January 2014.
- 2008
- Book
The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
By: Amar Bhide
Bhide, Amar. The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. (Association of American Publishers' PROSE award, Best of 2008 lists of the Economist, BusinesWeek and Barrons.)
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
Porter, Michael E., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." January 2012. (Report.)
- 2015
- Report
The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
By: Jan Rivkin, Karen G. Mills and Michael E. Porter
In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; U.S. Competitiveness; Shared Prosperity; Wealth; Competition; United States
Rivkin, Jan, Karen G. Mills, and Michael E. Porter. "The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." Report, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2015 (With contributions from Michael I. Norton and Mitchell B. Weiss.)
- 2015
- Book
The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America. New York: Broadside Books, 2015.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-081, February 2014.
- 2022
- Government Testimony
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Panama: A New Alliance for Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in the Americas
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Panama: A New Alliance for Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in the Americas." Government Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy, January 2022.
- 2021
- Article
Cluster Presence and Economic Performance: A New Look Based on European Data
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper takes a fresh empirical look at how cluster presence matters for economic performance. It analyses a new data set developed for the European Cluster Observatory to assess the impact of clusters on industry-level wages and regional prosperity. It is found... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Sergiy Protsiv. "Cluster Presence and Economic Performance: A New Look Based on European Data." Regional Studies 55, no. 2 (2021): 208–220.
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
economic development. Spreading prosperity through the gappon business model It is less Shibusawa’s track record as a serial entrepreneur than his views on the purpose of business that have attracted renewed interest. The Confucian... View Details
- 2020
- Book
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top.... View Details
Henderson, Rebecca. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020.
- 12 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity
requiring decisive action. This includes both near-term action to deal with the current financial crisis, and decisions on three broad issues that hold enormous ramifications for American society and the world at large. These issues are: Maintaining stable View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and of policies that can sustainably raise a location’s prosperity level. The paper outlines key elements of the competitiveness framework and discusses... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Cluster; Development; Growth; Economic Policy; Competition; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View." African Development Bank Group Working Paper, No. 258, May 2017.
- March 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Kelon (A): China's Corporate Dragon
By: Yasheng Huang and David Lane
Kelon was founded in the small, rural town of Rongqi in the Guangdong Province in 1984. In a six-year span, Kelon became China's largest refrigerator maker. In the 1990s it faced fierce competition from other Chinese firms as well as from multinational corporations.... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Ownership; Consumer Products Industry; China
Huang, Yasheng, and David Lane. "Kelon (A): China's Corporate Dragon." Harvard Business School Case 701-053, March 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- May 1997
- Case
Center for Women & Enterprise: Looking for a Director of Development with "The Scrappiness Factor"
By: Thomas J. Kosnik and Natalie Zakarian
Andrea Silbert is founder of the Center for Women & Enterprise, a nonprofit with a mission to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. She must select a new senior sales executive, decide how to share... View Details
Kosnik, Thomas J., and Natalie Zakarian. Center for Women & Enterprise: Looking for a Director of Development with "The Scrappiness Factor". Harvard Business School Case 597-077, May 1997.
- Spring 2018
- Article
Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via Remarkably Creative Negotiation
When Robert Mugabe was forced out of office in late 2017 after 37 years of increasingly brutal rule in Zimbabwe, he had been in the job so long that few recall how he got there. Fewer still remember that it was Henry Kissinger, whose complex, if unlikely, negotiations... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via Remarkably Creative Negotiation." Harvard International Review 39, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 58–61.
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness
Competitiveness has tended to be seen primarily from a federal perspective, and national policies and circumstances surely affect the prosperity of our economy. However, the Clusters of Innovation Initiative was undertaken with the realization that the real work of... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness." Council on Competitiveness, Washington, DC, October 2001. (Report.)