Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (4,668) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (4,668) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 60 of 4,668 Results →

    Dwight B. Crane

    Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... 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
    Related
    • 05 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 5, 2006

    Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2022
    • Technical Note

    National Security and Transnational Capitalism

    By: Meg Rithmire
    Though the relationship between national security and transnational commerce had long been interrogated and contested, the 2020s saw the escalation of concerns about insecurity and interdependence. These concerns manifested in a suite of institutional innovations and... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; National Security; Globalization
    Related
    • 15 May 2019
    • News

    How to Attract Startups and Tech Companies to a City Without Relying on Tax Breaks

    • 2008
    • Book

    Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

    By: Tarun Khanna
    China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In "Billions of Entrepreneurs," Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; China; India
    Related
    • 20 May 2009
    • Other Presentation

    American Competitiveness in a Global Economy

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
    Related
    • May 2020
    • Article

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
    In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
    Related
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    University, School of Advanced International Studies Dissertation: Essays in Spatial Economics and Development Advisors: Pol Antras , Edward Glaeser , and Gabriel Kriendler Sagar Saxena Business Economics,... View Details
    • February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
    • Case

    Komatsu Ltd.

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Reviews and updates the structure and characteristics of the earth-moving equipment industry presented in the companion case, Caterpillar Tractor Co. After revealing that CAT has suffered major financial losses during the period from 1981 through 1984, the case... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Machinery and Machining; Price; Growth and Development; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Industrial Products Industry
    Related
    • June 2010 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    Remaking Singapore

    By: Michael E. Porter, Boon Siong Neo and Christian H.M. Ketels
    Looking through the lenses of both macro and micro economic policy, this case examines how Singapore has achieved such stellar success throughout its history, from independence through 2008. The case discusses the different policy choices the Singaporean government has... View Details
    Keywords: History; Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Policy; Economic Growth; Microeconomics; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; Singapore
    Related
    • September 2019
    • Case

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Shaping the Vaccine Manufacturing Ecosystem

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Vaccines for children has been a long-standing focus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and its critical role in public health made its production an important economic and political issue. This case describes the Foundation's investment in a breakthrough vaccine... View Details
    Keywords: Vaccine; Production; Supply Chain; Product; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Belgium
    Related
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance

    By: Ethan Rouen
    I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee... View Details
    Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
    Related
    • 11 Jan 2023
    • News

    MBA Students Explore Capitalism in Italy

    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

    Rather than stifling investment, the proposed change will hopefully trigger increased focus on equity-type investments, on entrepreneurial activities that actually produce products and services to attract investors, and it will shine a positive light on an emerging... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
    • 04 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China

    powerful economic development programs that each is pursuing, these countries are poised to become dominant economic powers in short order. But there is a subtle trend... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Jan 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

    Keywords: by Diego A. Comin
    • Program

    Managing Turbulence

    Summary Even before the global pandemic, businesses and their leaders struggled with the extraordinary challenges of technological change, rapidly evolving consumer tastes, and a reconfiguration of the global economic order. COVID-19... View Details
    • 2010
    • Book

    Building World Class Universities in Asia

    By: D. Quinn Mills
    After discussing higher education's potential contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia,... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Selection and Staffing; Research; Asia
    Related
    • 14 Dec 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

    [MCC], a US government agency that supports economic development in various countries. Its measures are typically very long-term outcomes and impacts: for example, increases in farmer incomes. This is a... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna