Cluster - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT' Harvard Business School Case 609-062 Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that leverages the desires of municipalities in China to build clusters of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

different planet, and the negative consequences to many forms of innovation and entrepreneurial investment may be shattering. Without trust in the future, many talented workers may look elsewhere. But isn’t Silicon Valley impossible to match in terms of resources? Yes,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database and the U.S. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

services will become its key competitive advantage in the decade to come. This case traces the evolution of the CRO sector from a small, secondary cluster of firms into a major player with essential capabilities for global drug... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

published field studies of men doing dangerous work, to induce a model of how organizational cultures equip men to "do" and "undo" gender at work. Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of Innovation Clusters... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

begun to explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mtoffel/publications/King_Toffel_2009.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

1957-1966, the World Bank and IMF-led structural reforms of the 1980s, and the continuation of reforms after the first democratic elections in 1992. Details Ghana's economic and political context and cluster performance in 2001 and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

Wirtschaftsentwicklung - internationale Erfahrungen Author:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:In Cluster in der kommunalen und regionalen Wirtschaftspolitik. 5th ed., 41-54. Edition Difu Stadt Forschung Praxis. Berlin: Deutsches Institut... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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