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  • 2015
  • Book

Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

By: Jeremy Friedman
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's... View Details
Keywords: Competition; War; International Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union
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  • January–February 2013
  • Article

When the Crowd Fights Corruption

By: Paul M. Healy and Karthik Ramanna
Corruption is the greatest impediment to conducting business in Russia, according to leaders recently surveyed by the World Economic Forum. Indeed, it's a problem in many emerging markets, and businesses have a role to play in combating it, according to Healy and... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Emerging Economies; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Globalization; Russia; Georgia (nation, Asia); India
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  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Exchanges, June 10, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://www.world-exchanges.org/news-views/views/integrated-reports-voluntary-filing   Working PapersFrom Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Vadim Kogan
"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details
Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia
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  • December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

Hacking the U.S. Election: Russia's Misinformation Campaign

By: Shikhar Ghosh
The case discusses the relatively low technology approach used by Russia to influence the U.S. Presidential Election in 2016. Although political parties manipulating the media was not a new phenomenon, the Russians ran a broad, well-financed, and sophisticated social... View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; International Relations; Social Media; Power and Influence; Information; Russia; United States
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  • February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
  • Case

ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)

By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg
Climate change was becoming an important societal and business issue as more governments were introducing climate change related regulations and investors became increasibly worried about stranded assets within oil and gas firms. In September 2016, the U.S. Securities... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics
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  • 09 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • News

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  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

possibilities for eventually a habitat of some sort, maybe breaking down the water into its constituent elements so you would have energy as well. That’s very attractive. There was an attempt by Russia to land just a few days ago, and it... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
  • Web

Request the Data - Leadership

Mexico Monaco Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Ireland Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Paraguay Peru Phillippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia... View Details
  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Luxembourg Macedonia Monaco Netherlands Nordic Region Norway Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Middle East & North... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

It’s no secret the Federal Reserve and other central banks weren’t prepared for the swift, steep curve of inflation’s climb after COVID-19 snarled supply chains in 2021 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices soaring in 2022. “Central banks are accustomed... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • Web

Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Lisbon (2017) The Automotive Cluster in Portugal (2007) Romania Romania Apparel Cluster (2010) Russia The Moscow Financial Services Cluster (2012) Moscow Transportation (2006) Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Chemicals Cluster (2016) Singapore... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Olga Sokolova

Russia, a country whose birth I saw and which I deeply love. I will work for dinosaur state-controlled companies, and use everything I have learned to set an example, to show that business can be done differently: transparently, ethically, with fair rewards for hard... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to support for View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

Bollywood, winning fans far and wide — from Uzbekistan to Soviet Russia to the United States. The effects were long-lasting and far-reaching. When I lived in Beijing in 2012, a taxi driver sang a Raj Kapoor song to me in Chinese. Russians... View Details
  • Web

Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

conducted in countries ranging from Australia, Brazil, China, and Russia to Turkey. The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness offers its support to these and all other countries that want to use cluster mapping as a part of their... View Details