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2007
Report

Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

The report synthesizes, interprets, and draws implications about Russia's economic progress, applying the Porter competitiveness framework. It is part of a Strategic Audit of the Russian Federation, a broader set of research activities coordinated by CSR to provide a... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Russia

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15 Apr 2015
HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

2020
Chapter

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

By: John D. Macomber

As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry

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10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Insurance built a wonderful business by selecting relatively low-risk customers from among generally high-risk motorcyclists. Step 4: Keep it simple. Don't shoot yourself in the foot by mismanaging your own product or service line. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. You Might Also... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

companies, VoiceStream Wireless (now called T-Mobile USA), and also launched Hulu and the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network (although Nelson admits to being an avid Red Sox fan). By following his passion, Jonathan Nelson has achieved extraordinary success. He... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

rapidly leveraging new ways of doing things, both from an operational and commercial standpoint, quickly became a number one priority. Keeping up to date with the latest governmental information was a useful starting point for many, but it wasn’t enough to View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

suffering places in the world. During my time in the infantry, I was able to see the most generous and selfless aspects of human kind while also experiencing the stark reality of pure hatred and evil in the world. Overall it was, and will... View Details

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

competes through a proprietary business model and the other opens one module, generally the extensions. As the quality difference grows, cannibalization concerns lessen, and both competitors elect to compete through the same mixed source... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

concepts To conclude the notion of one ‘wheel’ could be a thing of the past, because there are many wheels turning at the same time.” The general consensus among those commenting on the question was that Amazon, even with its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

employees in organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations to government bureaucracies reveal that silence can exact a high psychological price on individuals, generating feelings of humiliation, pernicious... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

Korrawin SUMMING UP Will Digital Experimentation Take Hold in Industies Outside High Tech? The several responses to this month’s column generally were favorable to the notion that experimentation is gaining momentum as an everyday habit... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

at home, and they weren’t allowed to bring their office chairs home. The policy communicated a lack of empathy and general cluelessness about the employee experience—signals that were particularly important to working moms. The answer is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

negative effects generated by an overpowering leader can make non-leaders feel more empowered to assert their own point of view—whether or not the person dominating the conversation is a formal leader. Life And Death The Gino team has... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2013
Working Paper Summaries

In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

Keywords: by Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini; Banking; Financial Services

14 Jun 2012
Working Paper Summaries

“Power from Sunshine”: A Business History of Solar Energy

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities

10 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich

05 Nov 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven

Research Summary

Overview

By: Joshua Lev Krieger

In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is... View Details

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