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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
  • 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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  • 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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  • Fast Answer

Climate change: facts and figures

How do I find scientific facts, statistics, and studies on climate change? Country statistical yearbooks often provide statistical information of climate and nature resources.... View Details
  • 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
  • August 2020
  • Article

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja and James A. Robinson
Lack of trust in state institutions is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from non-state actors. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Lab-in-the-field Games; Legitimacy; Motivated Reasoning; Non-state Actors; State Capacity; Trust; Conflict and Resolution; Information; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 07 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
  • 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
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

continued M&A activity among companies seeking economies of scale and scope and attempting to take full advantage of political liberalization, globalization, View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 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
  • 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
  • September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Tesla in 2023: 'Electrified' Competition

By: Eric Van den Steen, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
Over its 17 years in existence, Tesla had redefined people’s view of electric cars, and in 2020, the company saw its stock rise by more than 700% to became the most valuable carmaker in the world. In December 2020, Tesla celebrated its fifth consecutive quarter of... View Details
Keywords: Barrier To Entry; Competitive Advantage; Innovation; Tesla; Automotive Industry; Sustainable Competitive Advantage; Values; Vision; Learning By Doing; Economies Of Scale; Electric Vehicle; Scenario Planning; Batteries; Competitive Strategy; Product Positioning; Profit; Competition; Industry Growth; Auto Industry
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  • 15 May 2015
  • Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

someone with an interest in the intersection of business and policy, particularly as it relates to generating economic development in the south, I soon began to find the opportunities View Details
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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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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
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

many ways, it is a gross oversimplification to think of the world as Silicon Valley and not Silicon Valley. If I was going to think about two variables, as an example, you might say how developed the View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

among elementary school students in math and science, painted a grim picture. Furthermore, in spite of the wealth created by many high-tech Israeli firms, socioeconomic gaps in the country had widened. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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