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Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
explores the determinants of competitiveness and successful economic development viewed from a bottom-up, microeconomic perspective. It was designed both for students at Harvard, and for locally-trained professors at educational View Details
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Milstein, MD, MPH Rationale and Objectives: To quantify the costs and work of diagnostic radiology (DR) residents using the radiology key performance indicator turn-around time (TAT) as the outcome measure. Materials and Methods: In an View Details
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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
regional economic development initiatives. Visit the U.S. Cluster Mapping website Other Cluster Mapping Projects The Institute has worked with partner institutes in many... View Details
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on competition and strategy pioneered... View Details
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development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national... View Details
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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
to capital providers Guide financial institutions to new investment opportunities and some of the world's fastest-growing companies Identify critical factors for economic growth in urban environments and... View Details
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Michael Porter’s ideas about competitive strategy. Shared value creation focuses on identifying and expanding the connections between societal and economic progress. Policies and operating practices that simultaneously create View Details
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Overview
My research lies in the intersection of economic growth and political economy focusing on the role of historical legacies, biogeography and culture in shaping contemporary economic performance. As growth economists our understanding of comparative economic development... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Ethnicity; Economic Growth; Development Economics; Macroeconomics; Culture; Religion; Africa; Asia
- 26 Sep 2013
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Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the downturn of the Indian economy... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
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CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Explained Creating shared value is a framework for creating economic value while simultaneously addressing societal needs and challenges. When businesses act as businesses —not as charitable donors—they can improve profitability while... View Details
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Strategy Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
fundamental goal of a company is superior long-term return on invested capital (ROIC) . Only if you achieve strong ROIC are you creating true economic value, which says that you can produce a product f or a price that’s greater than the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
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A Sticky Wicket: India’s Economic Dilemma
- November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)
A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
Fleming, Lee, Michael Vitale, and Jonathan West. "Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-051, November 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
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The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Five Forces Threat of Substitute Products or Services Bargaining Power of Suppliers Bargaining Power of Buyers Threat of New Entrants Rivalry Among Existing Competitors The Five Forces is a framework for understanding the competitive forces at work in an industry, and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2009
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Turkey’s Competitiveness: National Economic Strategy and the Role of Business
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s articles and books, including, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report, (World Economic Forum),... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Turkey’s Competitiveness: National Economic Strategy and the Role of Business." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, October 16, 2009.
- 30 Mar 2023
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The Economics of Science: Turning Ideas into Applications
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and Robert S. Kaplan “The fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable... View Details
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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
nations, regions and cities; and solutions to social problems. Our mission is to help leaders in business, government and nonprofit organizations make measurable, lasting improvements based on Harvard professor and Institute director... View Details
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Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor
Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions
Merton, Robert C., and Robert T. Thakor. "Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21258, June 2015.