New Economic Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

top. He held weekly staff meetings and used a scorecard that evaluated each leader's performance. He created a leadership model that outlined expectations. The number one expectation was inspiring trust--and that meant managers had to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Hall and Yuval Millo from the London School of Economics look at how these employees can use their own skills to become so-called frame-makers, part of their organizations' strategic decision-making teams. While their research focused on... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

August 2022
Case

Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry

By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest... View Details

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21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

“Results show strong correlations between business performance metrics and analytics capabilities, and highlight a variety of tasks in which top performing companies use analytics ” Feng Zhu, who teaches Digital Innovation and Transformation, illustrated how big data... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

populations they were trying to help” In the wake of this evolution over the past decade, more organizations have adopted a hybrid business model in which a social mission is the primary goal, but they still aim to generate enough... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Fall 2012
Article

Marketing and Public Policy: Transformative Research in Developing Markets

By: C. Shultz, Rohit Deshpandé, Bettina Cornwell, A. Ekici, P. Kothandaraman, M. Peterson, S. Shapiro, D. Talukdar and A. Veeck

Developing markets are a challenge for researchers who study them and for governments, business leaders, and citizens who strive to improve the quality of life in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on consumers... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Development Economics; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets

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08 Oct 2021
Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

forward my identity, I’m still processing what it means to be a ‘gay man’ in today’s society, romantic relationships are still hard, and my family is not fully accepting of my new reality. Yet, I am proud of who I am. I look forward to my... View Details

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

a level playing field with big business that can spend millions, perhaps billions, to launch a new product or service." Others set forth reasons for inequities in international competition and how they might be rectified. Andy Forbis... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
Case

Equity Bank: Charting the Future

By: Lauren Cohen, Michael Chitavi and Spencer C. N. Hagist

After climbing the ranks among Kenya's financial institutions from 66th to 1st, and toppling a quarter of the market share held by mobile money giant Safaricom, CEO James Mwangi must now guide Equity Bank into its next stage of development beyond "Equity 3.0." Should... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Decision Making; Market Entry and Exit; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Institutions; Economics; Kenya

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February 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG)

By: Rajiv Lal and Virginia Fuller

As B.S. Nagesh thumbed through the 2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG-a Rs 8.9 billion... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; India

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20 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

economic life. Chandler always stressed the importance of knowledge and learning inside organizations, which preceded more recent notions of the knowledge company or organizational learning. He was also a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2009
Chapter

The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking.

By: G. Jones and Lucy Newton

This chapter discusses the renaissance of British multinational banking from the 1990s. British commercial banks had pioneered multinational banking during the 19th century, but they were unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Commercial Banking; International Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Strategy; Banking Industry; Great Britain

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27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

"Radial Age" advertising campaign in 1968. 2 The August 1968 Consumer Reports awarded its top two spots to radials and documented the new technology's longer life, increased safety, handling and economy relative to even... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York Times piece on the tensions... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual customer relationships. Typically,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

entwined into your unique business model that competitors wouldn't be able to readily implement it even if they knew what it was." Khadija Khan suggested that we let the recipient decide, saying that "There is really no need for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2015
Case

Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Lauren Barley

Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), quickly read through the most recent news updates regarding the Ebola crisis in West Africa as she prepared for her board call on July 31, 2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old... View Details

Keywords: Not-for-profit; Public Service; Developing Countries; Secondary Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Developing Countries and Economies; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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