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Northern Lights: Political Economy and the Terroir of the Norwegian Enlightenment

By: Sophus A. Reinert

16 Oct 2019
News

Trump’s China Deal Leaves the Global Economy as Uncertain as Ever

24 May 2016
News

The EU Has Trust Issues, and It’s Taking Down Greece’s Economy

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the rise, the economics of cosmic... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

15 May 2024
News

Inflation Cools but Rising Prices Still Dominate Americans’ View of Economy

May 24, 2016
Editorial

The EU Has Trust Issues, and It's Taking Down Greece's Economy

By: George Serafeim

Keywords: Greece; Europe; European Union; Crisis; Economy; Financial Crisis; European Union; Greece

13 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Long-Run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Melecky, Florian Mölders, and Tristan Reed; Financial Services

2000
Working Paper

Interorganizational Ties and Business Group Boundaries: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

By: Tarun Khanna and Jan Rivkin

1999
Chapter

Excess Capital Flows and the Burden of Inflation in Open Economies

By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Capital; International Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Economic Systems

02 Jun 2017
News

Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy

Article

Interorganizational Ties and Business Group Boundaries: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Organizations; Groups and Teams; Boundaries; Information; Economy

2007
Book

How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

Keywords: Competition; Strategy; Organizational Structure; Government and Politics; Economy

1999
Chapter

Reliability in Measuring Market Orientation and Financial Performance in Transition Economies

By: R. Deshpande and J. U. Farley

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Markets; Finance; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics

February 2000
Article

Location, Competition and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Competition; Economics; Growth and Development; Global Range; Geographic Location; Economy

Teaching Interest

Overview

Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details

Keywords: International Economy; Macroeconomics; Political Economy

2014
Report

An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan Rivkin

In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economy; Financial Crisis; United States

2012
Chapter

The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics

By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina

Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Economies; Ownership; Corporate Governance; Emerging Markets