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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

competitive Japan, he said. But an undercurrent throughout the post-war period emphasized a second, noncompetitive Japan, as well, according to Porter. "Consumer packaged goods, chemicals, agriculture, software, and aircrafts were... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • Profile

Nneka Ezeigwe

different kinds of industries on the ground, looking at what drives change and takes an economy to the next level. I’ll be able to work with policy makers and business leaders who are expanding Nigeria’s economy and political landscape.... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
  • October 1998 (Revised June 2002)
  • Case

Austin, Texas: Building a High-Tech Economy

By: Bruce R. Scott and Srinivas Sunder
Members of the community decide to try to diversify the economy of Austin, Texas, by welcoming high-technology firms and by augmenting the electrical engineering faculty at University of Texas--Austin. View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Diversification; Information Technology; Policy; Government and Politics; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Higher Education; Texas
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  • April 2011 (Revised December 2012)
  • Supplement

South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck?

By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa
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  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

the mouse." Book: http://www.IMovedYourCheese.com Commentary: A View from the East: Trade, Investment, and Economic Reform Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:In Cuban Economic and Social Development: Policy Reforms and Challenges in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global community. Nevertheless, the pressures... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107070 Beijing Hualian Harvard Business School Case 906-403 China's fifth largest domestic retailer faced intensifying competition from Wal-Mart and Carrefour with the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

incorporating intellectual property concerns and “technoeconomic” forecasting Articulate paths to market and business models while accounting for tough tech value chains and competition Explore and negotiate strategic partnerships and... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2014
  • News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

“For young Americans to succeed in today’s workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world’s best,” says Jan Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. He explains that because of this, education is an area of study in HBS’s U.S.... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

William Kerr and Joseph Fuller at podcast studio in Klarman Hall on HBS campus (photo by Susan Young) HBS launched the Managing the Future of Work project in 2017 to advance research that business and policy leaders can put into action as... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

(1979) and a DBA (1992), both from HBS. Stuart C. Gilson has been a member of the HBS faculty since 1991. His research focuses on how companies can create value by restructuring their assets, operations, and financial obligations in response to View Details
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • News

Tapping into Opportunity

between Florida and Georgia, and some are among water districts within a single state, such as California. Shankar has worked on this issue as well, coauthoring the water policy paper that has driven California's water conservation... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Short Takes

and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the public health View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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Ben Steiner

together two very different kinds of skills and training,” says Ben. “The Law School is a boot camp for the mind – it’s very competitive in a healthy way. You learn to dissect and probe problems in nitty-gritty detail. On the other hand,... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"

doors to many people who wished to enter the marketplace.”) It wasn’t until India nearly went bankrupt in 1991 that the idea of “an open and competitive society was embraced by the people,” who, Chidambaram observed, brushed aside... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government