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Railroads and the Making of Modern China

My current book project is entitled Railroads and the Making of the Modern China and explores China’s economic and socio-political transformation from the last decades of the empire to the present using railroad infrastructure as a focus. Based on a large... View Details

    Joseph B. Fuller

    Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

    • January 2008
    • Article

    Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

    By: Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange
    Like all politics, all entrepreneurship is local. Individuals launch firms and, if successful, expand their enterprises to other locations. But new firms must start somewhere, even if their businesses are conducted largely or exclusively on the Internet. Likewise,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business Startups; Development Economics; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Taxation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business Processes; Expansion; Internet
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    • 16 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

    course at HBS in college, I was drawn to the case study method and opportunity to further develop my network and leadership skills to achieve this integration and have a meaningful impact. How long was your deferral (2, 3, or 4 years)? 3... View Details
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    Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna September 2025 | Article | Journal of Development Economics This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological... View Details
    • April 2025
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    How Central Banks Manage Climate and Energy Transition Risks

    By: Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling and Jared Finnegan
    Central banks have begun to examine and manage climate risks, including both transition risks of moving from fossil fuels to clean energy and physical climate risks. Here we provide a systematic assessment of how and why central banks address climate risks on the basis... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty; Climate Change; Transition; Risk Management
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    • March 1998 (Revised November 1998)
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    Empresas CAP, 1994

    By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu
    Empresas CAP began as a private-sector steel company in 1946. Over the next 40 years, CAP's ownership structure moved from nationalization to reprivatization. Unrestricted by state ownership, CAP began to diversify its holdings. The case considers the viability of... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership; Privatization; Diversification; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management; Planning; Steel Industry
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    I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
    • June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta and David Lane
    Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the... View Details
    Keywords: Copper; Imperialism; IMF; World Bank; ODA; Debt Relief; Growth and Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; History; Development Economics; China; Zambia; Africa
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      Reinventing State Capitalism

      In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

      • 16 Jun 2004
      • Other Presentation

      European Competitiveness in 2004

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels
      This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004, (Oxford... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Croatia
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        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services

          Ethan S. Bernstein

          Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details

          • 19 Jun 2007
          • First Look

          First Look: June 19, 2007

          develop this perceptions framework is of a single stage stochastic inventory system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • August 2022
          • Case

          In-Q-Tel: Innovation On A Mission

          By: Joshua Lev Krieger and Josh Lerner
          In 2022, the leaders of In-Q-Tel (IQT) considered what was next for the unique mission-driven organization. Since 1999, IQT had one mission: to be the most sophisticated source of strategic technical knowledge and capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. IQT... View Details
          Keywords: Mission and Purpose; National Security; Technological Innovation; Research; Geopolitical Units; Risk Management; Recruitment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Knowledge Management; Information Industry; Banking Industry
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          • February 1992 (Revised April 1995)
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          Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property

          By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
          Top officials at Pfizer are assessing their strategy for improving protection of Pfizer's patents around the world. The outcome of the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations is uncertain, and it is not clear whether an acceptable intellectual property protection... View Details
          Keywords: Patents; Trade; Policy; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Japan; Europe
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          • 29 Jul 2010
          • News

          Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award

          • 14 Feb 2014
          • HBS Seminar

          John Van Reenen, LSE, CEPR, and NBER

          • Research Summary

          Overview

          I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
          Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
          • Research Summary

          Overview

          I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
          Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States