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  • 2002
  • Other Unpublished Work

A View of Ontario: Ontario's Clusters of Innovation

By: Michael E. Porter
In Working Paper 1, A view of Ontario: Ontario's clusters of innovation, we reviewed the importance of clusters of traded industries to an economy's productivity, innovation, and standard of living. Professor Michael Porter of the Institute for Strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Canada
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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

    • 20 May 2009
    • Other Presentation

    American Competitiveness in a Global Economy

    By: Michael E. Porter
    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... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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    • 2017
    • Book

    Global Marketing Management: A Casebook

    By: John A. Quelch

    During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As companies move through the twenty-first century, they need to be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often... View Details

    Keywords: Marketing; Management; Globalization; Competitive Strategy
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      Shaking the Globe: Courageous Decision-Making in a Changing World

      We live in a highly interdependent world where 95 percent of the world's consumers live outside the U.S. Two-thirds of the world's purchasing power is also outside the U.S. Shaking the Globe guides everyone on how to absorb the... View Details
      • July 2011 (Revised October 2011)
      • Case

      Lady Gaga (A)

      By: Anita Elberse and Michael Christensen
      In September 2009, Troy Carter, manager of up-and-coming pop star Lady Gaga, has to decide on a new course of action now that his artist's planned co-headlining arena tour with hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been cancelled. Carter knows that continuing the tour, but... View Details
      Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Product; Product Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Creativity; Music Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
      • August 2014 (Revised February 2021)
      • Case

      Hospital for Special Surgery (A)

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Stacy Schwartz
      Hospital for Special Surgery, a focused factory for orthopedics and joint disease, is contemplating various growth options: further growth in the United Kingdom's National Health Services, management of hospitals in the United States, and/or hospital consulting.... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Expansion; Health Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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      • 19 Mar 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Carry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes

      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Fabio Kanczuk
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory

      By: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
      This working paper examines the historical origins, evolutionary paths, and long-term resilience of diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of... View Details
      Keywords: History; Diversification; Business Divisions; Theory; Oceania; North America; Europe
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      • 2018
      • Chapter

      Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details
      Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom
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        Howard H. Stevenson

        Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

        Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
        • September 2010
        • Case

        Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

        By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV
        With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details
        Keywords: Fairness; For-Profit Firms; Renting or Rental; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Social Enterprise; Income; Goods and Commodities; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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        • 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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        • 08 Nov 2024
        • Blog Post

        Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association

        Harvard has played a significant role in America’s military traditions since the founding days of the nation and continues its historical and ongoing commitment to military and public service, as well as its academic contributions in... View Details
        • 17 Mar 2004
        • Other Presentation

        Cluster-Based Economic Development: What Have We Learned?

        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), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2003... View Details
        Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United Kingdom
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        • March 2011
        • Case

        Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership

        By: Rohit Deshpande
        On November 26, 2008, heavily armed terrorists launched a series of attacks throughout the western-Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). One of the locations attacked was the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, which was occupied by the terrorists for over three days,... View Details
        Keywords: Safety; Leadership; National Security; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry; Mumbai
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          W. Carl Kester

          Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)

            Daniel M. Gilbane

            Dan Gilbane is a Lecturer of Business Administration presently teaching Deal Making in Real Estate in the Finance Unit.

            Dan is a 5th generation family leader of Gilbane, Inc., a construction and real estate development firms in the industry with a global... View Details

            • 30 Oct 2007
            • First Look

            First Look: October 30, 2007

            in the multi-agent settings in which these decisions typically occur. In this paper, we develop a model that extends neural nets techniques to capture recognition processes in groups of decision-makers. We use the model to derive some... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne