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  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

2018 Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract— Entrepreneurs in developing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

first recognize that, although there is a strong family resemblance among all platform systems, there are different types of open platforms, each with its own set of technological requirements and challenges. I first View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

world FDI in developing countries sharply decline, and it has remained far below pre-1914 levels during the second global economy beginning in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

late 1970s, when China ramped up its manufacturing production and began to open its economy to the world, its small and mid-sized factories struggled to gain access to the... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 26 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

economies, the smaller economies pay the price. The problem is exacerbated by continuing structural weaknesses in developing countries where foreign investments are not... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
  • Web

ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies View Details
  • 2021
  • Article

The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe

By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Activism; Securities Regulation; Agency Costs; Political Economy; Payouts; Repurchases; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Activism; Research and Development; Investment; European Union
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  • 2020
  • Chapter

Construction and Public Procurement in Uganda

By: Emanuele Colonnelli and Nicole Ntungire
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Infrastructure; Economic Growth; Construction Industry; Uganda
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  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

pandemic. An increase in risk perception makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features, which, in turn, provides producers greater incentives to develop and commercialize technologies that address... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

scouring craft fairs across the country to identify the best vendors at each, and pitching them on opening up an online store on the site. “They first brought their customers, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Defining the Attributes and Processes that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms

By: Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas
Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization of the U.S. economy and the desire for organizations to more accurately reflect the demographic diversity of the US population. Yet, most research on diversity in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Globalization; Employees; Retention; Knowledge Sharing; Research; United States
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    William R. Kerr

    William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • Web

    Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    cluster-oriented economic development organizations to collaborate and profile their work. In the meantime the cluster mapping approach developed at ISC has been adopted in a... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

    Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt & Isabel Tecu
    • May 2022
    • Article

    Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

    By: Frank Nagle
    While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution
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    • August 2008 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS

    By: Tarun Khanna, Sonali R. Bloom and David E. Bloom
    This case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide. There is a focus especially on its efforts in several emerging... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Africa
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    • 02 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

    and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses—and it’s hard to fault them. The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    ambiguous effect on high-quality output. To evaluate this trade-off, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne