Publications

2007
Working Paper

The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters

By: Charles Cohen and Eric D. Werker

Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of government preparedness and response greatly determines the extent of suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Government and Politics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Natural Disasters; Welfare or Wellbeing

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

matter? A: Absolutely. It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a source... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 18 Feb 2015
Webinars: Trending@HBS

U.S. Competitiveness: An Economy Doing Half Its Job

The HBS U.S. Competitiveness Projects report on the most recent alumni survey highlighted a troubling divergence in the U.S. economy. Middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are many small businesses. Professor Jan Rivkin will focus on aspects of the U.S.... View Details

March 2023
Case

Mirakl: Growing The Marketplace Economy

By: Antonio Moreno, Santiago Gallino and Emilie Billaud

Mirakl provided the technology and seller network required for companies like Macy's, Best Buy, Walmart, Siemens, or Carrefour to simply design, launch, and administer a marketplace that included products from third-party sellers. What began as a basic business idea in... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Sales; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry; Europe; France; Paris; United States

Educators

17 Dec 2015
News

The U.S. Economy Is Doing Only Half Its Job

1996
Chapter

The Emperor's New Information Economy

By: S. Zuboff

Keywords: Information; Economy; Information Technology Industry

16 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

matter? A: Absolutely. It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a source... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

November – December 1998
Article

Clusters and the New Economy

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economy

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow, her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

August 2012 (Revised March 2014)
Technical Note

4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies

By: Eric Werker

This technical note describes a methodology for evaluating the political economy of business-government relations in an emerging or frontier economy. The note argues that there are not one but four markets in an emerging economy: the market of "rentiers" such as mining... View Details

Keywords: Frontier Markets; Emerging Markets

Educators

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

Shutterstock/Thomas Barrat Twenty years ago in this column we discussed whether the economic activity of that time actually represented the New Economy that Time magazine first touted in a 1983 cover article. Some economists picked up the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

October 2007
Article

Governance in Global Information Economy

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Governance; Information; Economy

27 Oct 2014
News

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

2003
Chapter

Export-Led Development in Regional Economies

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Keywords: Trade; Developing Countries and Economies

September 2005
Article

Holding Companies: Size-Related Cost Economies

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

Keywords: Size; Cost; Economy; Business Ventures

March 1994
Article

Change in the Global Economy

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Change; Economy; Global Range

Research Summary

Antitrust in the new economy

The objectives of this project are threefold: (1) identify the computational, managerial, and legal issues that interact and make antitrust compliance difficult in the context of B2B exchanges; (2) examine the computational difficulties and policy implications of... View Details

December 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Teaching Note

Mirakl: Growing the Marketplace Economy

By: Antonio Moreno and Margaret Underwood

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-054. View Details