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  • 2019
  • Chapter

Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and U.S.

By: Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen and Harald Fadinger
We characterize the agglomeration patterns of industries and plants in Europe, distinguishing Eurozone countries and the United States. Using a micro-level index, we quantify the degree of geographic concentration in industrial activities and explore how firm... View Details
Keywords: Agglomeration; Patterns; Industry Clusters; Europe; United States
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 01 Jan 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

    Laurence Dutton SUMMING UP How Should America Admit Talented Workers of the World? The notion of attracting talented workers to the United States deserves support, especially at times when the unemployment rate is low. But the H-1B... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

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

    luster. Much more important was the changing world around the United States. Many countries like China and India, and especially some of their leading cities, made substantial economic gains over the last... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • February 1998
    • Case

    Creating the International Trade Organization

    By: David A. Moss, George R. Appling and Andrew D Archer
    In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agreements and Arrangements; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Systems; International Relations
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    • 14 Sep 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

    By: Erik Stafford
    Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high risk-adjusted returns after controlling for common factors typically associated with value stocks. Hold-to-maturity... View Details
    Keywords: Value Investing; Endowments; Investment Management; Asset Pricing; Private Equity; Investment; Management; United States
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    • 01 Feb 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

    fact, large global companies to which jobs were formerly outsourced have begun setting up operations in the US and United Kingdom. Is it time to recognize the advantages of bigness when it comes to employment and View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
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    Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

    By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn
    In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting... View Details
    Keywords: Hardware; Country; Business Cycles; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Growth; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Europe
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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Development and Career ; Publishing Industry ; Retail Industry ; United States Citation Purchase Related Raffaelli, Ryan. "Kwame Spearman at Tattered Cover." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-716, February 2025.... View Details
    • 05 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

    Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven
    • March 2003
    • Case

    Insurer of Last Resort? The Federal Financial Response to September 11

    By: David A. Moss and Sarah A. Brennan
    Examines the federal financial response to September 11, 2001: the airline bailout, the victim compensation fund, emergency aid to New York and Washington, and terrorism reinsurance. Less than two weeks after the attacks, the government had committed almost $40 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Insurance; Risk Management; United States
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    Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We characterize the agglomeration patterns of industries and plants in Europe, distinguishing Eurozone countries and the United States. Using a micro-level index, we quantify the degree of geographic concentration in industrial activities and explore how firm... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    how to preserve ethical discipline when the legal rules of the game are ambiguous and executives stand to reap enormous rewards by exaggerating or camouflaging a company's true economic performance, I outline organizational processes that... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economy; Moral Sensibility; Mathematical Methods; Opportunities; Behavior; United States
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    • 16 Sep 2015
    • Keynote Speech

    Revitalizing Inner Cities: The Strategic Agenda

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Keynote presentation at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Detroit, MI View Details
    Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; United States
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    • September 1986
    • Case

    BOC Group: Ohmeda (A)

    The president of Ohmeda, a wholly owned company of the BOC Group, plans to grow the company's medical equipment sales from $95 million in 1985 to $158 million in five years by focusing on the sale of "high-tech" equipment. At the same time, the president expects to... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Communications; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • June 1995 (Revised October 1996)
    • Case

    Lexus and the USTR

    By: John A. Quelch
    Lexus executives and dealers in the United States are debating how to respond to the U.S. Trade Representative's announcement of 100% tariffs on 13 models of Japanese luxury imported cars. View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Taxation; Luxury; Trade; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 01 May 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

    Friedman's view may be more applicable in economically uniform societies. I hope that the later part of this century will be more suitable for Friedman's views." Ruth Rama was more succinct: "Friedman will prevail in the U.S.;... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • May 1989 (Revised June 1990)
    • Case

    Great Britain: Decline or Renewal?

    Focuses on the origins of economic decline and the problems of economic management in Great Britain, the oldest industrial state. Reviews the formation of macroeconomic policy, welfare policy, and industrial policy in the postwar period. Examines Prime Minister... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Great Britain
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