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  • 2016
  • Report

Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2016

By: Michael E. Porter, Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai and Manjari Raman
In this report, the authors synthesize their views on U.S. competitiveness and unveil the findings of the 2016 HBS surveys on U.S. competitiveness. Specifically, the report documents the faltering performance of the U.S. economy and the erosion of America’s business... View Details
Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; Competitive Strategy; Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; United States
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    Ray Kluender

    Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details

    • 12 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12

      Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

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    By: Kyle R. Myers
    Professor Myers studies the economics of what determines the rate and direction of innovation. He has examined the reallocation of scientists through the use of targeted research grants at the National Institutes of Health, and is working to further understand how... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Networks; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Knowledge Management; Patents; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Health; Innovation and Invention; Science; Technology; Knowledge; Intellectual Property; Economics; Microeconomics; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Technology Industry
    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Juan Alcacer

      Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within... View Details

      Keywords: consulting; management consulting; telecommunications
      • 2011
      • Chapter

      Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

      By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
      Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Investment; Policy; Research
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        Gunnar Trumbull

        Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on climate change. His current research and teaching focuses on... View Details

        Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing

          Richard H.K. Vietor

          Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia... View Details

          Keywords: energy; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; railroad; shipping
          • 27 Oct 2020
          • News

          Hospital Merger Seeks to Create Regional Giant in the West

          • Research Summary

          Professor Pill's current research has two dimensions. On the one hand, he is investigating the formulation and conduct of monetary policy in advanced economies, with a focus on the implementation of the single monetary policy in the euro area. On the other hand, he is... View Details
          • 2005
          • Working Paper

          Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences

          By: Lakshmi Iyer
          This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct... View Details
          Keywords: Governance; Development Economics; Outcome or Result; Great Britain; India
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          • 14 Feb 2023
          • HBS Case

          Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

          lately, Sweden doesn’t seem as traditionally Swedish. The far-right Sweden Democrat party finished second in September’s election, touting an anti-immigrant campaign. The party’s parliamentary votes will influence the nation’s policies in... View Details
          Keywords: by Lane Lambert
          • 2020
          • Discussion Paper

          Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

          By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
          This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
          Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
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          • 1986
          • Article

          The Dollar as an Irrational Speculative Bubble: A Tale of Fundamentalists and Chartists

          By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
          Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Macroeconomics
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          • 2010
          • Working Paper

          The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries

          By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng
          Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in... View Details
          Keywords: Trade; Price; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; China
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          • Winter 2001
          • Other Article

          Competition and Antitrust: A Productivity-Based Approach to Evaluating Mergers and Joint Ventures

          By: Michael E. Porter
          This article seeks to contribute thinking on how the intellectual foundations of antitrust might be updated, based on a large body of theoretical and empirical research on company strategy, competition, and economic development. The aim is to outline a new direction... View Details
          Keywords: Society; Strategy
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          • 22 Jan 2016
          • News

          Lessons from Boston’s Experiment with The One Fund

          • 01 Nov 2022
          • What Do You Think?

          Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

          thousands of loyal, hard working, often inadequately recognized, government employees attempting to carry out the latest immigration policy are caught in the middle. Immigrants need the US. It still represents the world’s most attractive... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett

            Arthur C. Brooks

            Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details