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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a critical mass of sophisticated production and service activities reside. A clear locational core,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
balance between the efficiency of a global entity and the speed of local businesses. What would be the best strategy for Bunge to respond to the external changes imposed by high energy prices and increasing demand from emerging economies?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
President and CEO Larry Baer (MBA 1985) is spearheading plans to build a $1.6 billion mixed-use development on a waterfront parcel just south of the team’s AT&T Park, also located in downtown. A former vice-chair and co-owner of the... View Details
- August 2012
- Article
A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending
By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda
We use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks-where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions-give larger loans to small firms and those with "soft... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Customers; Financing and Loans; Credit; Organizational Structure; Banks and Banking; Governance Compliance; Competitive Strategy
Canales, Rodrigo, and Ramana Nanda. "A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending." Journal of Financial Economics 105, no. 2 (August 2012): 353–366.
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
To create synergy, we require more than a concept and a strategy. The enterprise value proposition defines the strategy for value creation through alignment, but it doesn't describe how to achieve it. The alignment View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first global economy before 1929 most FDI was located in developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
qualified professionals with part-time, temporary, and flexible full-time positions in legal, IT, accounting, strategy consulting, and marketing, among other areas. Like many young mothers with two small children, O’Kelly felt the... View Details
- Profile
Whitney Wilson
business problems they were solving.” After the Chamber, she accepted a consulting position with Deloitte in Washington DC where she “worked in the strategy and analytics practice for public sector clients. I focused my work around... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
course for first-year students, spans the entire year and is divided into three modules: leadership, global immersion, and integrated learning. The globalization module involves sending student teams on eight-day immersion experiences to 14 View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details
- 03 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
4 Ways HBS Alumni Utilize Baker Library
to those who are conducting research on their own and who want to go beyond Google. We help with search strategies on any topic, including how to access and use eBaker resources and provide advice on how to best View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
assets, something that has gone on for centuries? Is it better to have the available money, regardless of origin, invested in assets located in free market democracies than somewhere else? Will this help insure the world's long-run... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715417-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-431 When to Enter? Timing Location Strategies to Strengthen Competitive Advantage No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film... View Details
- Web
Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
strategy, corporate venture and innovation groups; (2) as strategy consults who will serve clients in these roles; (3) in private equity portfolio companies, as an operator. This class is also geared towards students who are interested in... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
In a profile of Peet’s Coffee CEO David Burwick (MBA 1989), the East Bay Times details the company’s growth under his watch: Since 2013, annual sales have jumped from $395 million to almost $800 million, 70 new locations have been added,... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
executives in his classroom. While they come from countries around the world and from a variety of industries, they share a common characteristic. "They're at a point where it's valuable for them to stop and reflect," says Simons, a specialist in accounting,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry and firm-specific characteristics in... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs