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  • August 29, 2022
  • Other Article

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, K. Blesch and Oliver P. Hauser
Income inequality is on the rise in many countries around the world, according to the United Nations. What’s more, disparities in global income were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some countries facing greater economic losses than others. Policymakers... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Gini Coefficient; COVID-19 Pandemic; Government Administration; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Measurement and Metrics
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  • November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place

By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry
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  • January 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

KITEA (A): Democratizing Furniture in Morocco

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2013 as Amine Benkirane, founder and CEO of the leading Moroccan furniture company KITEA, contemplates the loss his company has incurred for the first time in its 20-year history. The case then describes KITEA’s origins and provides a detailed... View Details
Keywords: Retail; KITEA; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Entry Strategy; Responding To Entry; Localization; Competitive Interaction; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Africa; Morocco
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  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

workplace motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance of others. "Traditionally, [the field of] economics has held a very rational view View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth

Keywords: by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom & William Kerr
  • Research Summary

Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19th century, if not earlier. This... View Details

  • 18 Dec 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
  • December 2006
  • Case

Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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  • 22 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

Why is it that many of the same companies appear repeatedly on lists of the best places to work, the best providers of customer service, and the most profitable in their... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler
  • Web

Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

Commenting on the gift in 2016, Steve noted, “We believe innovation in the life sciences is critically important to the future of our region from an economic standpoint and equally important to all View Details
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

becomes clear only a few decades later, in the lead up to the second World War.” World War II (1939-1945): Strategies must reflect their unique circumstances The Treaty of Versailles left Germany spoiling for revenge, and it also left its... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Research & Applications Research & Applications National... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2017
  • Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

education, and economic development.  There are a few common reasons why most of my classmates wanted to come to HBS. I chose HBS for two reasons. First, it provided me with an opportunity to reflect on my... View Details
  • December 2019
  • Case

Noiler

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Dr. Ayoola (Ayo) Oduntan is accelerating distribution of Noiler, a genetically optimized breed of poultry, to smallholder farmers across Nigeria. The bird was bred to be productive as a source of both meat and eggs and to thrive in the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Poverty; Health; Growth and Development Strategy; Nigeria
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  • Web

Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

the vibrant entrepreneurial community at Harvard. GETTING LIFE-SAVING DRUGS TO MARKET is a research focus for Professor Amitabh Chandra . He examines the unique effects that economics and market factors have on the development View Details
  • 14 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors

Keywords: by Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill; Financial Services; Legal Services
  • 06 Feb 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

never mind narcissism and all the disorders of greed We can't fix the world with economic systems too big a job all we tiny ones have is our love and conscience." Etienne Douaze maintains that the concept is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global... View Details