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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Frameworks & Key Concepts Michael Porter & Competitiveness In 1990, Michael Porter published The Competitive Advantage of Nations , an examination of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. The... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

as customer acquisition, on-time delivery, developing new services and products, and running efficiently. But operating performance is also a result; it is derivative of human... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

case a financial services company, to bail us out. The experience could have soured me on the entire notion of hedge funds. But of course hedge funds later came into vogue, prompting the growth and View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 2008
  • Report

Nordic Globalization Barometer 2008

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The countries in the Nordic region—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—have been among the economies that have done best in an increasingly global economy. All Nordic countries have higher levels of prosperity than the average OECD country. Only the United... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competitive Strategy; Scandinavia
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  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

collaboration across the boardroom-classroom divide. The barriers hindering such collaboration should not be ignored, the participants agreed. But, they said, the alliances that stand to be forged and the opportunities that can be View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Innovation on Wings: Nonstop Flights and Firm Innovation in the Global Context

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Do Yoon Kim and Wesley W. Koo
We study whether, when, and how better connectivity through nonstop flights leads to positive innovation outcomes for firms in the global context. Using unique data of all flights emanating from 5,015 airports around the globe from 2005 to 2015 and exploiting a... View Details
Keywords: Nonstop Flights; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research and Development; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

look at the data and it's very clear. That since the early 1990s there's been a subtle and but pretty constant degradation in the average level of happiness in the United States. View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • October 2020
  • Case

Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state
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  • 07 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

Keywords: by Andrea Hugill & Jordan Siegel
  • May 2005 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala

By: Geoffrey Jones and Marcelo Bucheli
Examines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half century, United Fruit had built a large vertically integrated tropical fruit business that owned large banana... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; International Relations; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Central America; Guatemala; United States
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  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

number of developments during the School's history that have helped create and stimulate a climate favorable to entrepreneurship at Soldiers Field. The Business School's first Dean, Edwin F. Gay, while a... View Details
  • March 2022
  • Case

In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Pierre Marchesseault
To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology platform to lower transaction costs for free, Jeannot launched FinTech company Be Mobile Africa in May 2020.... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Fintech; Emerging Market; Fundraising; Financial Inclusion; Strategy; Expansion; Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Togo; Nigeria; Ghana
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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

Keywords: by André C. Martínez Fritscher & Aldo Musacchio
  • 30 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

with outstanding financial results.— Lynn S. Paine This shift in our understanding of the corporate personality has profound implications for management. Among other things, it means that managers must develop more robust ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
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Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

leaders can improve competitiveness by focusing on national policies as well as regional initiatives and cluster development. Cross-National Regions Strategies that coordinate economic policy among neighboring View Details
  • March 1990 (Revised May 1993)
  • Case

USSR--1990

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Describes the political, economic, and social development of the USSR from 1921-90. Particular emphasis is placed on 1) institutional change, 2) the costs and benefits of central economic planning, and 3) the political economy of perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev.... View Details
Keywords: Country; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Change; Government and Politics; Russia
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  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy brings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

role models and stories to relate to. However, getting here also makes you a trailblazer, breaking down barriers and inspiring others who share similar backgrounds, especially from my same region View Details