Publications

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Private Capital Project

Samuel Gregory Hanson , Victoria Ivashina , Laura Nicolae , Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform... View Details

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

infrastructure to take advantage of the new technology. Rich areas pulled away more from less-rich areas, making regional inequality worse. As we sometimes say succinctly, the internet enabled midwestern farmers to easily reach Manhattan... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
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VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Mozambique

2015
Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads Through comparative analysis of railroads in the United States and Europe, where the View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. Students either founding or working for social enterprises (nonprofit, public sector, or for-profit... View Details

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

March 11. Tokyo, and indeed much of eastern Japan, is an epicenter of high-tech manufacturing. But dozens of suppliers in other industries are located in the region as well, and the loss of their production... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details

October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa

By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard

In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS... View Details

June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.

By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia

In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China

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Global Activities 2020

Fellowship (GO: Africa), are working to encourage and scale businesses on the continent from their base in Ghana. Asia Pacific HBS Engagement Across the Region The Harvard Shanghai Center and HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

foods, and cook with 500-year-old recipes. The authors have compiled descriptions of México’s eight gastronomic regions and 32 federal states, with details of local specialties. A Bloody Good Cox: A Story of Courage and Redemption By... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

unaffected regional and local banks increased small business lending to nearby borrowers and opportunistically expanded their branch networks, dampening the negative effect on small firms during the GFC and its aftermath. See Vitaly’s... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi University 1988 Joins View Details

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Factiva: Field tags

Company Codes** fds= Factiva Company codes Headline hd= Headline Headline Group hl= Includes HD, SE, CLM Headline/Lead Paragraph Group hlp= Includes HD, SE, CLM, LP, CX Industry Code in= Industry codes... View Details

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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits 1929: The Great Crash Unique historical materials in Harvard University collections throw light on the role of the regional exchanges in the stock market crash of 1929, and the regulation of the... View Details

February 2024
Supplement

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar

Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates