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Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
Ashraf, Nava, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan. "Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-065, February 2008. (forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.)
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Web
BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society
BiGS Research At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we advance rigorous, practice-oriented research at the intersection of business and society. Our projects explore corporate ownership structures, sustainable industrial policy, View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
economic battlefield, emerging markets like Russia -- where Nestlé is active -- represent valuable new territory for the highly competitive consumer foods business. Nestlé, the world's largest packaged-food company, has always emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the... View Details
- Jul 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
leadership roles in a quickly changing economic environment. Planned speakers include Tom Jones, chairman and CEO of Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Bank Group; Lloyd Trotter, president and CEO of GE Industrial... View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
can I do? What are key enterprise risk-management strategies? How Do I Build My Business In This Environment? Building Businesses in Turbulent Times An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite and rethink how they do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Fast Answer
Business of Sports
behavior in sport markets and athletic consumer goods University of Michigan Public dataset compiled by University of Michigan professor of Sport Management Dr. Rod Fort Data covers economics and statistics for U.S. professional and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Social Enterprise Pioneer
examining how, in their teaching and research, they can best prepare students for leadership roles in this key sector of the economy. The Prophet of Start-Ups A new biography of HBS professor Georges Doriot declares him the prophet of modern venture capital and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
UN President Speaks at HBS
The keynote speaker for last October’s International Week at HBS, UN General Assembly president Srgjan Kerim, called on the future leaders in his audience to use capital not only to realize profits but also in ways that promote and advance View Details
Keywords: Government
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Leading the way in sustainable style
pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment
Conservancy (TNC), the world’s largest environmental organization. He is leading TNC as it changes society’s mindset around the importance of healthy natural systems and demonstrates nature’s value as the foundation of our well-being and View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
Michelle Banik, Heather Stark (MBA 1999), Penny Collenette, and Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008) When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report came out at the end of March, the news was grim. The significant View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
hotspot for biomedical innovation. The lessons from our history are clear: Where we invest in science, we gain enormous economic pay-offs. “Where we invest in science, we gain enormous economic pay-offs” In... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
developed it while at the University of Rochester with his former colleague and frequent collaborator William H. Meckling in response to a call from students for an economics course that was applicable to real-life work situations. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Tribal Business News | Baker Library
Tribal Business News Digital publication delivering in-depth stories, analysis and business intelligence on all aspects of Native business and economic development activities. Read More Analysis of Native and tribal business news, View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2022
- Article
‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The Closure of the Swiss Firestone Factory in 1978
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focusses on the closure of the Firestone’s Swiss subsidiary in 1978. It contributes to the existing literature dealing with the ‘nationality’ of multinational companies and the impact of U.S. management style on local capitalist systems. Drawing on a... View Details
Keywords: Americanization; Capitalism; Corporate Nationality; Industrial Relations; Multinational; Narratives; Multinational Firms and Management; Nationality; Economic Systems; Labor and Management Relations; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The Closure of the Swiss Firestone Factory in 1978." Special Issue on International Business, Multi-Nationals, and the Nationality of the Company. Business History 64, no. 9 (2022): 1648–1665.