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- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2015
- News
9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders
Nine HBS alumni have been selected as 2015 Young Global Leaders (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. The organization engages these “bold, brave, action-oriented, and entrepreneurial” individuals to help shape a more positive, peaceful and... View Details
Keywords: World Economic Forum
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Passing on knowledge at a new business program in Switzerland
Bob Gebhardt (MBA 1973) is following a long career in international business by helping to launch a business school program in Switzerland modeled after his experience at Harvard Business School. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
self-sustaining and replicable model of health-care delivery for rural villages. The new Crossroads program, like its predecessor, aims to attract alumni who are searching for greater personal or... View Details
- October 2014
- Article
Industrial Policy and the Creation of New Industries: Evidence from Brazil's Bioethanol Industry
By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
Industrial policy programs are frequently used by governments to stimulate economic activity in particular sectors of the economy. This study explores how an industrial policy program can affect the creation and evolution of an industry and, ultimately, the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sectors; Policy; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil
Mingo, Santiago, and Tarun Khanna. "Industrial Policy and the Creation of New Industries: Evidence from Brazil's Bioethanol Industry." Industrial and Corporate Change 23, no. 5 (October 2014): 1229–1260.
- January 1984 (Revised April 1993)
- Background Note
Introduction to U.S. Political Economy: Antecedents to the New Deal
Provides background information on developments in the U.S. economy and policy over several decades preceding the Hoover Administration. View Details
Encarnation, Dennis J., III. "Introduction to U.S. Political Economy: Antecedents to the New Deal." Harvard Business School Background Note 384-160, January 1984. (Revised April 1993.)
- 22 Jan 2008
- Other Presentation
Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy
European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters, Stockholm, Sweden. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy." European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters, Stockholm, Sweden, January 22, 2008. (Video.)
- 22 Jan 2008
- Other Presentation
Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy
European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters, Stockholm, Sweden. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy." European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters, Stockholm, Sweden, January 22, 2008.
- Fast Answer
HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Company News & Industry Research
How can alumni search for company or industry news and research? ABI/ProQuest is a best-in-class source for company and industry news, including industry research reports. Company news: 1. Click “Advanced Search” in the... View Details
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Negotiating for Development: A New Paradigm for Natural Resource Agreements
By: Eric D. Werker
- Summer 2018
- Article
Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor
By: Daniel P. Gross
Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope... View Details
Keywords: Technology Diffusion; Spatial Technology Diffusion; Farm Tractors; R＆D; General-purpose Technologies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Transportation; Research and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Gross, Daniel P. "Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor." RAND Journal of Economics 49, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 427–452.
- Web
The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
kind works against it and even makes tradeoffs between economic and social goals inevitable. Traditional Roles New Roles Philanthropists Donate to charitable causes Partner with companies and NGOs to... View Details
- 2023
- Article
Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria,... View Details
Keywords: Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Neo-Liberalism; Neocorporatism; Coordination; Economic Policy; Business and Government Relations; Labor Unions; Economics; Policy; Europe
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987." Special Issue on Brokers of the wealthy (Transnational business associations) edited by Pierre Eichenberger, Neil Rollings and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl. Business History 65, no. 2 (2023): 345–365.
- January 1995
- Article
Money, Output, and Prices: Evidence from a New Monetary Aggregate
By: J. J. Rotemberg, John Driscoll and James Poterba
Rotemberg, J. J., John Driscoll, and James Poterba. "Money, Output, and Prices: Evidence from a New Monetary Aggregate." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 13, no. 1 (January 1995): 67–83.
- 2022
- Chapter
Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter explores differences in the making of a ‘modern’ fiscal state under colonial and sovereign rule. Focusing on African and Asian colonies (1820–1970) and their respective European metropoles, it argues that while the introduction of ‘modern’... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Modernization; Colonial Rule; Economic History; Sovereign Finance; History; Taxation; Africa; Asia
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule." In Global Taxation: How Modern Taxes Conquered the World, edited by Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf, 67–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 2021
- Working Paper
Time and the Value of Data
By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Valavi, Ehsan, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani, and Marco Iansiti. "Time and the Value of Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-016, August 2020. (Revised November 2021.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns
By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Shimon Kogan and Ran Xing
Despite positive and significant earnings announcement premia, we find that institutional investors reduce their exposure to stocks before earnings announcements. A novel result on the sensitivity of flows to individual stock returns provides a potential explanation.... View Details
Keywords: New Trading; Mutual Funds; Fund Flows; Limits To Arbitrage; Financial Constraints; Earnings Announcements; Institutional Investing; Stocks
Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Shimon Kogan, and Ran Xing. "Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-072, March 2023. (Revise and Resubmit to The Journal of Finance.)
- September 2024 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition
By: Tarun Khanna and Gizem Cihan Dincsoy
In March 2024, Amin Nasser, president, and CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), had just delivered a speech about the future of energy at a global energy conference. The world was behind schedule in meeting long-term climate change goals. The global shift... View Details
Keywords: Energy Transmission; Oil ＆ Gas; Economic Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Leadership; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Transition; Environmental Sustainability; Diversification; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia
Khanna, Tarun, and Gizem Cihan Dincsoy. "Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition." Harvard Business School Case 725-358, September 2024. (Revised February 2025.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-081, February 2014.