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    Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

    Translations available in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Vietnamese.

    Western concerns about the rise of China and India are raising alarms today, much as they were fifty years ago. China and India currently operate in... View Details

    • 06 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Edward Fertik, Yale University

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work

    By: Laura Katsnelson and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
    Workers who join the gig economy face a challenging trade-off. Gig work provides worktime flexibility and a sense of being one’s own boss, but gig workers forgo certain protections that employees enjoy. In this paper, we study the work patterns of a large sample of... View Details
    Keywords: Gig Workers; Flexible Work Arrangements; Worker Welfare; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms

    By: Mercedes Delgado, J. Daniel Kim and Karen G. Mills
    Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has exhibited a significant shift from manufacturing towards services. This transition has been particularly prominent in an important subcategory of services industries that drives innovation and employs many high-wage... View Details
    Keywords: Servicification; Supply Chain Industries; STEM Labor; Innovation; Growth; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; Policy; Service Industry; United States
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    • 21 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 21

    spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

      Chasing Stars

      It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details

      • 12 Apr 2022
      • Book

      Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

      Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • 03 Nov 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean

      Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, James Tighe & Susana Garcia-Robles; Financial Services
      • 17 Jul 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

      Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
      • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
      • Case

      IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
      Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues
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      Placement - Doctoral

      Career Success and HBS Career and Professional Development . Students on the Job Market Every year, the HBS Doctoral Programs produces an impressive list of students who are preparing to enter the job market. Find View Details
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      Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

      By: Laura Alfaro
      In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
      • April 2019
      • Article

      Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

      By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
      In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
      Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

      By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
      In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
      Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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      • April 2005 (Revised September 2005)
      • Case

      Pegasus Capital: The Musimundo Decision

      By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
      The five managing directors of Pegasus Capital were meeting in June 2003 to make a go/no-go decision regarding the investment of Musimundo, one of the largest entertainment retailers in Argentina. Just four days before the planned closing of the sale, Pegasus' 50%... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Music Entertainment; Investment; Business or Company Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Argentina
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        P.F. Chang's

        Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang's beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed "nonessential" owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had... View Details
        • 12 Oct 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Crashes and Collateralized Lending

        Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Banking; Financial Services

          The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

          What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this short book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as... View Details

          • Research Summary

          Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt (with Fabio Kanczuk)

          By: Laura Alfaro
          Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. Some of the implications of this analysis, however, may not be generalized once one considers the joint decision to hold debt and reserves by a... View Details
          • April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
          • Case

          Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

          By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
          Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
          Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
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