Filter Results:
(666)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(666)
- News (91)
- Research (451)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (306)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(666)
- News (91)
- Research (451)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (306)
- 29 Mar 2012
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness: The Role of Clusters
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), “Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness,” in The Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness: The Role of Clusters." Toronto Region Economic Summit, Toronto, Canada, March 29, 2012.
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
- 11 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies
Keywords: by Valeria Giacomin
- 2013
- Working Paper
Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe
By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv. "Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe." WWW for Europe Working Paper Series, No. 14, July 2013. (WIFO, Vienna.)
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
What to Know About Locating in a Cluster
- July 2005
- Journal Article
How to Evaluate Clusters
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Ketels, Christian H.M. "How to Evaluate Clusters." Special Issue "Poles de Competitivite Revue parlementaire (July 2005).
- 28 Jul 2004
- News
Clusters for rural health
- 2002
- Other Unpublished Work
A View of Ontario: Ontario's Clusters of Innovation
In Working Paper 1, A view of Ontario: Ontario's clusters of innovation, we reviewed the importance of clusters of traded industries to an economy's productivity, innovation, and standard of living. Professor Michael Porter of the Institute for Strategy and... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "A View of Ontario: Ontario's Clusters of Innovation." Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, April 2002.
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
What to Know About Locating in a Cluster
- August 2006 (Revised May 2016)
- Case
Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland
By: Jeffrey Fear, Christian H.M. Ketels and Claudia Linsenmeier
As part of the privatization in Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics; Privatization; Chemicals; Foreign Direct Investment; Management Teams; Private Sector; Competitive Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Participation; Chemical Industry; Germany
Fear, Jeffrey, Christian H.M. Ketels, and Claudia Linsenmeier. "Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland." Harvard Business School Case 707-004, August 2006. (Revised May 2016.)
- 18 Oct 2017
- News
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
- January 2016
- Article
Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters
By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
This paper takes a close look at the reasons, procedures, and results of cluster identification methods. Despite being a popular research topic in strategy, economics, and sociology, geographic clusters are often studied with little consideration given to the... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Alcacer, Juan, and Minyuan Zhao. "Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters." Strategic Management Journal 37, no. 1 (January 2016): 10–21.
- 2007
- Report
The Role of Clusters in the Chemical Industry
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The European Chemical Industry, still in the leading position globally, is under intense competitive pressure from emerging locations in Asia and the Middle East. After first reacting by efficiency upgrading within companies and then pursuing outsourcing and aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Chemical Industry; Asia; Europe; Middle East
Ketels, Christian H.M. "The Role of Clusters in the Chemical Industry." Report, 2007. (Prepared for the Annual Conference of the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA))
- 01 May 2010
- Lecture
Clusters and Start-Up Location Choice
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Clusters and Start-Up Location Choice." Lecture at the HBS Faculty Research Symposium, Harvard Business School, May 01, 2010.
- May 2011
- Teaching Note
The Dutch Flower Cluster (TN)
By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for 711507. View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Industry Clusters; Competition; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Netherlands; China; Colombia; Ecuador; Kenya
Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge, and Michael E. Porter. "The Dutch Flower Cluster (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 711-534, May 2011.
- September 2018
- Article
Knowledge Integrators and the Survival of Manufacturing Clusters
By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing clusters. While some of them dwindled, others proved resilient. Contributing to the recent literature on co-located clusters and clusters'... View Details
Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano. "Knowledge Integrators and the Survival of Manufacturing Clusters." Special Issue on Challenges in International Business Development. Journal of Economic Geography 118, no. 5 (September 2018): 1069–1089.
- 06 Oct 2014
- News
New tool maps economic clusters
- January 2010
- Article
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent... View Details
Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation." Journal of Urban Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2010): 46–60.
- 2000
- Chapter
Clusters and the New Economy
- Web
Compute Cluster - Research Computing Services
Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster 2ms Running Jobs Comprehensive guide to running programs and scripts on the HBSGrid, including... View Details