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- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
that there is more to running an enterprise, small or large, than strategy. The revolution in quality control and manufacturing techniques that has taken place in the last fifteen years was data-driven and systems-driven and statistical-process-control-driven. The U.S.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
American factories and, with other foreign automakers, adding billions of dollars to the U.S. economy while creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. Despite these new plants and jobs, globalization all but assures that the auto industry in... View Details
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Rangan , Benjamin N. Roth , Natalia Rigol Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Business and Geopolitics Business, Government & the International Economy Jeremy Friedman Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid General Management,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
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 diversified business groups and other comparable models of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of the world's most successful View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
Flows in the Global Economy Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—We review the rapid development of digital labor markets that connect companies and contractors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how the local View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME) This course is about one question: what is the proper role of the government in the market economy? We study the role of government as it plays out in the real world, using vivid case studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
federal center and provincial governments, relations between the state and big business, economic policy, and models of economic development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710030-PDF-ENG Foreign Direct Investment and Ireland's Tiger View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
took effect in 2006. The ninth plan proposed five thrusts—moving the economy to higher value-added goods and services, raising the capacity for knowledge, addressing socioeconomic inequalities, improving the quality of life, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
edited by Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007 No abstract available. Governance in the Global Information Economy Author:F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Chap. 11 in Managing Global Information Technology:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
Lacking their economies of scale, you worry that you won't be able to compete. Surprisingly, however, that's not always the case—and the exceptions can be instructive. In the specialty-coffee business, for example, Starbucks is viewed by... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
consumer deleveraging. This, in turn, has created defaults among financial institutions.” In this context, Kaplan maintains that the financial rescue plan was necessary but not sufficient by itself. “There has to be a second step, and it is critical. We need to rebuild... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Huang, opened with a spirited presentation by Ko Kheng Hwa (AMP:ISMP 152), managing director of the Singapore Economic Development Board. "Asia is not just China, you know!" he said. In addition to highlighting Singapore's contributions to what he called "rising Asia,"... View Details