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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and Robert S. Kaplan “The fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable...
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- 23 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
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by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
- 14 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
- February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting...
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Business Startups;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
AI and Machine Learning;
Fashion Industry;
Technology Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
Arabian Peninsula
Gompers, Paul A., and Fares Khrais. "Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia." Harvard Business School Case 224-052, February 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- December 2022
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When and How Should Firms Differentiate? Quality and Advertising Decisions in a Duopoly
By: Dominique Olié Lauga, Elie Ofek and Zsolt Katona
A prominent hallmark of competitive interaction is the desire to differentiate from rivals. In this article, the authors examine under what conditions firms will differentiate through product quality versus advertising intensity. Firms select quality in a first stage,...
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Lauga, Dominique Olié, Elie Ofek, and Zsolt Katona. "When and How Should Firms Differentiate? Quality and Advertising Decisions in a Duopoly." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 59, no. 2 (December 2022): 1252–1265.
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Faithful and Customizable Explanations of Black Box Models
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Ece Kamar, Rich Caruana and Jure Leskovec
As predictive models increasingly assist human experts (e.g., doctors) in day-to-day decision making, it is crucial for experts to be able to explore and understand how such models behave in different feature subspaces in order to know if and when to trust them. To...
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Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Ece Kamar, Rich Caruana, and Jure Leskovec. "Faithful and Customizable Explanations of Black Box Models." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2019).
- 2018
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Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the impact of modern business enterprise on the natural environment of Latin America during the globalization waves between the 19th century and the present day. It argues that although global capitalism created much wealth for the region,...
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Globalization;
Natural Environment;
Outcome or Result;
Business History;
Pollutants;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-009, August 2018.
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About - Global
About Building upon a rich legacy of global engagement in business education. The Global Initiative is anchored by a team based in Boston with more than 65 staff sitting in key regions around the world to contribute to the school’s global...
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- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
regions and emerging industries, allow for longer time horizons, and take more risk than traditional investors. Impact funds tend to prioritize consumer staples, energy, financials, industrials, materials, real estate, and utilities....
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by Rachel Layne
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HBS - The year in Review
Office opened in November 2021 and joins 10 HBS research centers and eight regional offices located around the world. In order to capitalize on the varied geographic, demographic, and business make-up of the Mid-US region, the new office...
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- 26 Sep 2023
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Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
technology. ” The relentless adoption of these technologies, which in the last couple of years has been vastly accelerated by the global outbreak of COVID-19 and its related lockdowns in several regions of the world, has led to a massive...
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- 22 Mar 2024
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Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
II model and wage data from Salary Expert to factor global and regional labor costs differences. ‘Nobody’s going to believe this’ The authors say their study is likely the most comprehensive so far on the topic. However, they caution that...
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minute walk from Burlingame Caltrain station . The closest BART stop is Millbrae station which is a 10 minute taxi ride to the CRC. New Research on the Region May 2024 Case LinkedIn Corporation, 2024 By: David B. Yoffie , George Gonzalez...
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
strategic positioning has informed much of his other research. Dr. Porter next turned to economic development and competitiveness, where his work focused on the microeconomic underpinnings of national and regional economic development....
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
since when costs are reduced one must be sure that outcomes are not made worse. Outcomes are also essential parts of value based payment plans like bundled payment. In regional and national expansion of delivery organizations, they are...
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- 25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American...
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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Politicians promise to eliminate it, but are unable or unwilling to do so. The role models available for business leadership in the different regions of the world are significant. In America, with its longstanding experience with...
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by D. Quinn Mills
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Both a regional and global impact will color the conversation, and the humanitarian, business, geopolitical, and military dimensions will be incorporated. Personal experiences will be shared, and opportunities for further engagement on...
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HBS - The year in Review
with more than 200 MBA students from their regions in a pilot networking event. Dining Services Partner Affirmed As part of the broader effort to ensure excellence in its service partnerships, the School reviewed its Dining Services...
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- February 2024
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Tabby: Winning Consumers' Digital Wallets
By: Eva Ascarza and Fares Khrais
Hosam Arab (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of Tabby, a Saudi-based fintech startup, raised its Series D funding round in October 2023, four years after its inception, valuing it as a regional unicorn. Tabby's core product, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) service, allowed...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Risk Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Saudi Arabia
Ascarza, Eva, and Fares Khrais. "Tabby: Winning Consumers' Digital Wallets." Harvard Business School Case 524-056, February 2024.