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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • News

Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

In a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview Robert Sulentic (MBA 1984), president and CEO of CBRE Group Inc. (long known as Coldwell Banker & Co.), is bullish about the real estate market, the future of brick-and-mortar retail, and the growth of entrepreneurship... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

A Club for the Cosmos

In May, as Khaled Al-Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011) was introducing the UAE Space Agency at the Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi, another launch was taking place inside the confines of the larger conference. The Harvard Business School Aerospace Alumni Group, the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

an advantage over European competitors. It also needs a more proactive approach to identifying and upgrading its areas of strength outside of London. The UK has strong biosciences and information technology clusters around Cambridge and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Aug 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
  • 2019
  • Chapter

Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firm; Economic Geography; Agglomeration; Location Fundamentals; Agglomeration Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Economics
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  • Web

RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

And other, unforeseen uses. Scratch spaces on compute clusters are usually high-performant (e.g. Lustre or similar) and very large. Typical usage scenarios for scratch storage are: Working space for running jobs (temporary files,... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research at HBS | Information Technology

requirements. Resources for Researchers Creating a Data Safety Submission (DAT) at HBS Using Cloud Based Collaboration Tools for Research Research Compliance/IRB Information on the Compute Cluster (RCS) Using Personal Devices for Research... View Details
  • 2017
  • Article

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
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  • May 2010 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Delta Electronics Hybrid Power Train

By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
Delta Electronics, the world's largest manufacturer of switching power supplies, hoped to enter the market for gasoline-electric hybrid power trains for automobiles by being a major component and subsystem supplier. While most public awareness of hybrid vehicles fell... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Industry Clusters; Partners and Partnerships; Electronics Industry; China
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Teaching Cases - 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
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Comfort Zone

mind,” he says. First up: Bring the comfort of the lounge to the boarding hall. Tandem seating is a thing of the past, Fraser says. Among other things, he advises replacing the rows of chairs with what he calls soft seating: small couches that are comfortably spaced,... View Details
  • November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

The Big 3 Roar Back

By: William W. George
The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details
Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

wind power seemed of much more importance in some countries than in others, "a very odd pattern in the geographical locations of the firms," Jones says. "This sparks my imagination. In the early days of organic foods in the United States there were View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Social Investing Pioneers

degree of interest from a cluster of northeastern states as well as broader interest across the country,” she notes. In particular, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has expressed interest in using social impact bonds to address... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

that benefits from knowledge spillovers explain why firms in an industry cluster in specific geographical areas—think Silicon Valley. In the advertising industry, however, knowledge spillovers within the industry are not as important as... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • Web

VBHCD Initiative - 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
  • November 2002 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica

By: Michael E. Porter and Niels W. Ketelhohn
Describes the actions of Costa Rica President Figueres and his cabinet in attracting an Intel assembly and testing plant to their country. The effort was part of a government strategy that sought to develop further the Costa Rican electronics and information technology... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry; Costa Rica
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  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

  Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace