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  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

An Environmental Epiphany

to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov. We started the International... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

that are feeling threatened have learned how to bully younger upstarts by wielding licenses and patent law like a weapon. It certainly doesn't encourage the spirit of innovation, does it? However, it isn't just the inventors and fledgling businesses that suffer. The... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Books

farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers, View Details
Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Profile

Patrick Chun

you invest in regimes that are out of favor, what issues do you need to think about? This is a relevant topic that will become more relevant as economies and companies continue to become more global." The second study, a venture... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

balance between nations on trade and tariff issues, as well as a more globally competitive US corporate tax rate. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, cochairs of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, define competitiveness as “the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
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  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

led to the emergence of new industrial clusters around the world. In this paper, we examine how "first nature" location fundamentals and "second nature" agglomeration economies jointly determine the global landscape of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

will emerge new kinds of collective actions that will address the contemporary issues of multinational workforces and globalized networks of trade and commerce." These comments raise several questions: Just what new kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Sure, the price of tulips in the Netherlands skyrocketed to such outlandish heights that one flower sold for the equivalent of several hundred dollars before the market crashed in 1637, taking the Dutch economy down with it for many years... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • Web

IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

is a research-based course. Our objective is to provide students with perspectives and insight into the eighth largest economy in the world. Although it is dominated by SMEs (companies with annual revenues of below 50m make up 82% of the... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

close connections between economies and governments around the world. "It isn't sufficient that I try to maximize the company's bottom line," Smith says. "Other constituencies affect our success in the long run." Starbucks employees... View Details
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking price. "The total effect of all that money and lack of focus on the intrinsic economics of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • May 2016
  • Supplement

2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; ＂ Cresud; Agriculture; Economic Reform; Economic Policy; Land Investment; Macri; Currency; Agribusiness; Diversification; Economy; Emerging Markets; Credit; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Buenos Aires; South America
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  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

business model. If the model is characterized by increasing returns, demand begets still greater demand, as illustrated by eBay's success. A business may also benefit from significant scale economies if big up-front investments and fixed... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

China's economy in context; and finally (3) "China and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed overtime. These materials should be of interest to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

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
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in extreme cases, imprisonment of their civilian employees during... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne