Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,524) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,524) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (2,524)
    • People  (2)
    • News  (444)
    • Research  (1,798)
    • Events  (6)
    • Multimedia  (5)
  • Faculty Publications  (1,038)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (2,524)
    • People  (2)
    • News  (444)
    • Research  (1,798)
    • Events  (6)
    • Multimedia  (5)
  • Faculty Publications  (1,038)
← Page 6 of 2,524 Results →
  • Web

Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Profits and Economic Development

By: Dan Schwab and Eric Werker
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Rent; Mark-up; Competition; Manufacturing; Development Economics; Profit; Economic Growth; Renting or Rental
Citation
SSRN
Read Now
Related
Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker. "Profits and Economic Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-087, March 2014. (Revised April 2014.)
  • August 2009 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth

By: Christopher Marquis, Marya Besharov and Bobbi Thomason
In 2009, Whole Foods stands at a crossroads. Their incredible growth over the past 25 years has vaulted them into the ranks of the largest US supermarkets and they have arguably led to the widespread acceptance of natural and organic foods in the United States. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Marquis, Christopher, Marya Besharov, and Bobbi Thomason. "Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 410-023, August 2009. (Revised September 2011.)

    Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy

    As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become increasingly digital. But while the effects of digital technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on... View Details
    • December 2005 (Revised July 2006)
    • Case

    Bunge: Poised for Growth

    By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
    As CEO of the world's largest oilseed processor, Alberto Weisser of Bunge must not only decide how quickly to expand in fast-growing markets of Eastern Europe and Asia, but also how best to leverage the firm's global footprint and leadership position. The firm is... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Trade; Global Strategy; Leadership; Growth Management; Management Style; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Integration; Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Asia; Europe
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Bunge: Poised for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 506-036, December 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
    • February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

    By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
    The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Health Care Operations; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy Development; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Porter, Michael E., and Elizabeth O. Teisberg. "Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015." Harvard Business School Case 709-473, February 2009. (Revised June 2019.)
    • Research Summary

    Understanding the Drivers and Limits of Corporate Growth

    By: Gary P. Pisano

    Perhaps no issues garners more attention of senior executives and Boards of Directors than growth.  Yet, the underlying factors shaping and limiting corporate growth are poorly understood.  Empirically, we know that some corporations grow much faster than... View Details

    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

    By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
    This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
    Citation
    Read Now
    Related
    Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv. "Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe." WWW for Europe Working Paper Series, No. 14, July 2013. (WIFO, Vienna.)
    • 2012
    • Article

    A Study of Economic Impact of Cloud Computing

    By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards
    In this paper we find that advances in cloud computing likely will extend the IT induced economic growth in developed economies and foster growth in economies where IT penetration is not yet fully mature. We conclude that governments should work together to take... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Economic Growth; Cooperation; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry
    Citation
    Related
    Iansiti, Marco, and Gregory L. Richards. "A Study of Economic Impact of Cloud Computing." International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management 12, no. 4 (2012): 344–372.
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

    By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
    The key in the investigation of "where" and "why" capital flows, relative to the neoclassical benchmark, is how we measure these flows. The macro literature has been using three main yardsticks: the current account balance, returns to capital, and the volume of net... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Performance Productivity; Capital; Economics
    Citation
    Find at Harvard
    Related
    Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych. "International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth." NBER Working Paper Series, No. w17396.
    • January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices

    Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC) firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years and has come into conflict with the company's founder. Should the Board's nominating committee re-nominate the VC investor, and should... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict of Interests; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    El-Hage, Nabil N., and Kristin Elaine Meyer. "Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices." Harvard Business School Case 310-060, January 2010. (Revised April 2010.)
    • December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
    • Case

    Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
    By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's... View Details
    Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Goldberg, Ray, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Djordjija Petkoski. "Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Harvard Business School Case 914-401, December 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
    • 09 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

    years. One of his students, Simon Kuznets, developed [a standard way to measure] Gross National Product there in the 1930s. In all these ways, the growth of the forecasting industry spurred efforts to make sense of View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2020 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Wellthy: The Economics of Caring

    By: Brian L. Trelstad and Joseph B. Fuller
    In 2014, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA ’09) founded Wellthy, a B2C business that coordinates care for working professionals seeking help to support loved ones with chronic diseases or aging parents. With personal experience as a young professional providing care for her... View Details
    Keywords: B2B Vs. B2C; Future Of Work; Health; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Trelstad, Brian L., and Joseph B. Fuller. "Wellthy: The Economics of Caring." Harvard Business School Case 320-028, February 2020. (Revised January 2024.)
    • 15 Sep 2010
    • Other Presentation

    Microeconomic Aspects of Competitiveness:Lessons for Post-Crisis Growth Policies

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    Prof. Christian Ketels - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School and Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, Stockholm School of Economics View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Society; Latvia
    Citation
    Read Now
    Related
    Ketels, Christian H.M. "Microeconomic Aspects of Competitiveness:Lessons for Post-Crisis Growth Policies." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Riga, Latvia, September 15, 2010.
    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

    By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
    The key in the investigation of "where" and "why" capital flows, relative to the neoclassical benchmark, is how we measure these flows. The macro literature has been using three main yardsticks: the current account balance, returns to capital, and the volume of net... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Public Equity; International Finance; Sovereign Finance; Government and Politics
    Citation
    Related
    Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych. "International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth." 2010.
    • 01 Sep 2013
    • News

    HBS's Unique Economic Model

    Rick Melnick Harvard Business School is renowned for educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Less well known is the economic model that enables HBS to do this—model that is unique in higher education. HBS is a living example... View Details
    Keywords: Melnick, Richard; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    Vietnam: Sustaining the Growth of an Asian Tiger

    By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
    The case tracks Vietnam's economic policy choices and performance from the end of the Vietnam war to the Doi Moi economic reforms and the economic transformation that followed. Throughout this period, the country had become a darling of the international aid community.... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Policy; Transformation; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Viet Nam
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Porter, Michael E., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Vietnam: Sustaining the Growth of an Asian Tiger." Harvard Business School Case 713-480, January 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
    • May 2023
    • Course Overview Note

    Space: Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE)

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    SPACE is a course with two goals: to use the tools of economics to better understand the rapidly evolving space sector, and to train the next generation of commercial space leaders. We pursue these goals through a systematic study of the growing space economy,... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Growth; Aerospace Industry
    Citation
    Purchase
    Related
    Weinzierl, Matthew C. "Space: Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 723-062, May 2023.
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

    By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura
    India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India
    Citation
    Read Now
    Related
    Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Alexander Segura. "Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 7206, March 2015.
    • ←
    • 6
    • 7
    • …
    • 126
    • 127
    • →
    ǁ
    Campus Map
    Harvard Business School
    Soldiers Field
    Boston, MA 02163
    →Map & Directions
    →More Contact Information
    • Make a Gift
    • Site Map
    • Jobs
    • Harvard University
    • Trademarks
    • Policies
    • Accessibility
    • Digital Accessibility
    Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.