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  • April 2025
  • Case

Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
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    David B. Yoffie

    Professor David B. Yoffie is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games
    • 2019
    • Article

    The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
    Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
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    • 2002
    • Chapter

    National Innovative Capacity

    By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
    This chapter delves in detail into the conditions that allow a country to innovate at the global technology frontier. The findings reveal the striking degree to which the national circumstances actually explain the differences across countries in innovative activity... View Details
    Keywords: Economics
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    Overview

    By: Mattias E. Fibiger
    Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

    Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
    Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
    • 02 Mar 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

    expose the banking system to free market forces We will have to see if Prime Minister Xi is prepared (to expose) China’s shadow banking and rumored zombie banks to such a discipline.” China should not be an economic enemy, Greg reminded... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 08 Nov 2019
    • Blog Post

    Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS

    benefits.  Whether volunteering at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, joining a Boston area Veterans of Foreign Wars/American Legion Post, or simply connecting with fellow Veterans in the AFAA, there are lots of ways to stay View Details
    • 2003
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Cluster Initiative Greenbook

    By: Örjan Sölvell, Göran Lindqvist and Christian H.M. Ketels
    After Michael Porter's seminal work on clusters and competitiveness published around 1990, cluster initiatives (CIs) have become a central feature of microeconomic policy around the world. CIs add a new dimension to traditional policy areas such as industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Policy; Investment; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Developing Countries and Economies; Transition; Partners and Partnerships; Science
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      Jeffrey J. Bussgang

      General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

      Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

      Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

      • April 2011 (Revised January 2015)
      • Case

      The Eleganzia Group

      By: Elie Ofek, Elena Corsi, Bharat Sajnani, Sorina Casian-Botez and Francesco Tronci
      Eleganzia Group management faces tough decisions heading into the summer of 2010. With tourism on the decline due to the global economic recession, General Manager Giannuzzi must decide how to set prices at the Forte Village Resort, the Group's most well-known... View Details
      Keywords: Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Customer Management; Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Luxury; Business Strategy; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Italy
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      • 11 Jan 2023
      • News

      MBA Students Explore Capitalism in Italy

      • 22 May 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

      Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak & Alvin E. Roth
      • 01 Oct 2015
      • Blog Post

      Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

      relationships between Goldman Sachs professionals and the students. We work hard to ensure that our professionals are active in on-campus events and stay connected with students throughout the fall via phone and e-mail. We maintain a... View Details

        Roberto Verganti

        Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

        Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; electronics; fashion; food; furniture; high technology; home appliances; industrial goods; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; textiles
        • November 2012
        • Case

        Occupy Wall Street

        By: Rakesh Khurana and Eric Baldwin
        This case examines the Occupy Wall Street movement, which emerged in late 2011 in response to the fallout from the global financial crisis of 2008 and the economic downturn that followed. Occupy Wall Street was born out of a sense of frustration with both a global... View Details
        Keywords: Occupy Wall Street; Organizational Behavior; Income Inequality; Democracy; Financial Crisis; Campaign Finance; Globalization; Globalized Economies and Regions; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture
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        • Article

        You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Real Exchange Rate and Manufacturing Performance in a World of Global Value Chains

        By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
        Real exchange rate devaluations are typically seen as a viable development strategy, but the effectiveness of the approach may vary over time and across countries. This column explores this issue by focusing on the microeconomics of firm-level responses to exchange... View Details
        Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Real Exchange Rate; Global Value Chains; Economics; Production; Performance
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          Janice H. Hammond

          Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation

            George Serafeim

            George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
            • February 2015
            • Article

            On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Traditional Chiefs and Pre-Colonial Political Centralization

            By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
            We report on recent findings of a fruitful research agenda that explores the importance of ethnic-specific traits in shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals identify with their ethnic... View Details
            Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Africa
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            • February 2024
            • Module Note

            Collaborate on the Core, Compete on the Edges

            By: Frank Nagle
            In the rapidly evolving environment of modern business, the digitization of economic activity and the ubiquitous integration of technology across industries are fundamentally altering how companies develop and implement strategy. The rise of digital technologies has... View Details
            Keywords: Technology Adoption; Competition; Cooperation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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