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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network AllWorld Network AllWorld Network... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
By: Glenn Ellison, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Labor; Industry Clusters; Transportation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Ellison, Glenn, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-064, July 2007. (NBER WP 13068; published in American Economic Review.)
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor—who had done extensive research examining the benefits of clusters—to speak to the governor’s cabinet and the legislature in support of the idea. “That was the real reason the legislature voted in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
of one of the largest semiconductor clusters in Europe. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the semiconductor industry, the Dresden team only copied from its home corporate locations in the United States those processes and practices that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
Utilization: there are two main challenges in how to utilize the captured carbon. The first is converting it into usable products at a competitive price. The second is finding a market to consume these products that are close enough to create a View Details
- Aug 2003
- Article
The Economic Performance of Regions
This paper examines the basic facts about the regional economic performance, the composition of regional economies, and the role of clusters in the U.S. economy over period of 1990 to 2000. The performance of regional economies varies... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories
By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
benefiting their performance irrespective of whether these decisions negatively affect other profit centers. However, the firm implemented a third system that would potentially lead managers to benefit other profit centers. The firm established regional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBSGrid Terms of Service - Research Computing Services
Requirements When working on the HBSGrid, users must understand that the cluster is a shared resource. If over-requesting resources (CPU cores and RAM) or allowing sessions to sit idle over long periods of time, these unused resources are... View Details
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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Initiatives 137 Competitiveness Institutes 819 Cluster Initiatives 925 National & Regional Competitiveness Initiatives Knowledge Development 462 Cases 993 Research Projects 157 Cross-Affiliate Collaborations The MOC Affiliate network... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
- Conference Presentation
Key Drivers for Inner City Growth
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Key Drivers for Inner City Growth." Paper presented at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Cleveland, OH, October 23–24, 2013.
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
clusters and assess new markets based on network shape. Highlights Positives of Multi-homing Picabuu and Clustering Multihoming: Incumbents vs New Entrants Show Hide Details Concepts Network Effects... View Details
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William R. Kerr | Working Knowledge
global race for talent and how countries and businesses compete for high-skilled migrants. The book reveals how immigration has transformed U.S. innovation, reshaped the economy through the rise of talent clusters and superstar firms, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
impact of Harvard's intellectual capital." Research at the ISC will span a wide array of topics, such as regional cluster development, the impact of the Internet on competitive positioning, antitrust policy, and strategies for... View Details
- June 2015
- Case
Silicon Fen
By: Tom Nicholas, David Chambers and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Technology Industry; England; California
Nicholas, Tom, David Chambers, and Matthew G. Preble. "Silicon Fen." Harvard Business School Case 815-082, June 2015.
- 2015
- Chapter
Agglomeration and Innovation
By: Gerald Carlino and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting... View Details
Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr. "Agglomeration and Innovation." Chap. 6 in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Volume 5, edited by Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William C. Strange, 349–404. Elsevier, 2015.
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Geographic Clusters By: Alcácer, Juan, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—This paper takes a close look at the reasons, procedures, and results of cluster identification methods. Despite being a popular research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network The Global Health Delive...... View Details