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2023
Working Paper

Networking Frictions: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Networking Events in Lomé

By: Stefan Dimitiadis and Rembrand Koning

Spatial proximity between firms plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship by creating knowledge spillovers, enabling resource sharing, and sparking productivity gains. Building on these insights, research has explored whether institutions and organizations can engineer... View Details

Keywords: Local Range; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Productivity; Togo

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2022
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When the Journey—And Not Just the Destination—Matters: How Internationalization Shapes Entrepreneurial Experimentation

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright and Laura Huang

Internationalization—gaining exposure to cross-border markets—is often the result of an entrepreneur’s experimentation and strategy around their core business. Scholars have shown how entrepreneurs develop products or services, and after achieving some traction, turn... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Entrepreneurial Journey; International Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Global Range; Strategy

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Foreign Investment from the Third World: The Experience of Chinese Firms from Hong Kong

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Range; Learning; Hong Kong

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Government, Business, and Academia: Origins of Raymond Vernon's Understanding of Multinational Enterprise

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Government and Politics; Business Ventures; Education; Global Range

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1981
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Town of Holden Health Insurance Procurement

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Health; Local Range; Insurance; Financial Management

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01 Dec 2003
News

Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations

scope and professionalism. They include the annual Global Leadership Forum, career services and lifelong learning programs for alumni, and a vibrant reunion program that is the envy of other professional schools and undergraduate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Making Sense of Capitalism

interviews. These new experiences allowed me to think through the role of history, as well as the significance of my research, in business strategies and people’s everyday lives today. The scope and depth of my project expanded... View Details

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

31 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach

Keywords: by Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services; Accounting

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Investing in What You Know: The Case of Individual Investors and Local Stocks

By: Mark Seasholes and Ning Zhu

This paper tests the performance of individuals' equity investments. We study over 40,000 accounts and 950,000 trades from a large discount broker. Individuals invest heavily in local stocks and put 14% more into these stocks than a market-neutral portfolio... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Local Range; Investment; Equity

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July 1999
Article

The Government as Venture Capitalist: The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Government and Politics; Venture Capital; Programs; Local Range; United States

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16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

many consolidations in the past decade. Does the rapid consolidation of New World producers make profits at the cost of diversity? Should a beer company own a vineyard? A: The scope economies across the beer and wine businesses appear... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

2010
Chapter

Is Decentralization Helping the Lagging Regions?

By: Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani and Saurabh Mishra

Keywords: Government and Politics; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Developing Countries and Economies

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December 2008
Article

Technology Usage Lags

By: Diego A. Comin, Bart Hobijn and Emilie Rovito

We present evidence on the differences in the intensity with which ten major technologies are used in 185 countries across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. at the same intensity as they are used in the... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Global Range; Economy; Relationships; Performance Productivity; United States

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Baker Library Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

industry, the depth and scope of these collections are exceptional. There are particularly rich resources for studying company history across decades. Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Respond to a Worthy Cause

Respond and Respond II, and Sonya Brown and Michelle Dietz (both MBA ’02). After the success of the first CD, last year Devereaux asked the HBS Entertainment & Media Club for help writing a business plan. “The idea was to broaden the View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Arts, Entertainment