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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
in developing countries where laying fiber just doesn’t make sense, although there are real questions about cost and sustainability. Apart from the hard-core mobile gamers,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53388 Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, Joel Goh, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2004
- Case
Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (B1)-CME Negotiates
By: Mihir A. Desai, Alberto Moel and Kathleen Luchs
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Fairness; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Rights; Ownership Stake
Desai, Mihir A., Alberto Moel, and Kathleen Luchs. "Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (B1)-CME Negotiates." Harvard Business School Case 204-119, February 2004.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-004, July 2017.
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
fan base that spans generations. She tells powerful stories and provides practical examples on how to develop extraordinary talent able to build and stimulate a company’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming:... View Details
- 2010
- Article
We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy
By: Gautam Mukunda
Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
Mukunda, Gautam. "We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy." Security Studies 19, no. 1 (2010).
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
factor for an internship's success. "It's important that people see change as their own idea," he says. "In dealing with people from another country, I try to be open-minded." Mukhtar, who was born in Nigeria, attended medical school and... View Details
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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
City ICIC is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
brand management that avoids traditional brand tenets of control and competition, largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission and based on participation,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 04 Dec 2024
- Podcast
Hospitality at work: Bridging opportunity and innovation
How do you foster inclusion, economic mobility, and a sense of purpose across a global organization with both franchise and direct employees? Laura Fuentes, Hilton CHRO, on supporting frontline workers and promoting from within in a traditionally high-turnover... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future
"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred... View Details
- March 2012
- Article
Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us
By: Nitin Nohria
Americans may not realize this, but the world wants the United States to be competitive. For more than a century, global observers have considered the U.S. economy to be an exemplar and America a country to envy and imitate. Unfortunately, America's reign as the... View Details
Nohria, Nitin. "Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch (Edward Elgar Publishers) In this book leading business historians compare the effects of globalization on two Latin American countries while using the historical lens of the... View Details
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Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity premium, sustainability, and service smoothing. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortions and government... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Development Economics; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost; Interest Rates; Developing Countries and Economies; Welfare; United States; Brazil
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?" Review of International Economics 17, no. 5 (November 2009): 890–905. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-005 and NBER Working Paper No. 13119.)
- Web
Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Competitiveness of State... Competitiveness of States & Regions Prosperity... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Asia-based old economy and new economy firms. The development of supplier and client relationship management in... View Details