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December 2009
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Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel

Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Ethnicity; Behavior; Local Range; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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May 27, 2022
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How 'Digital Nomad' Visas Can Boost Local Economies

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

More and more companies are offering their employees the option to “work from anywhere,” whether in their home office, in another state, or even halfway around the globe. A growing group of remote professionals are taking the “anywhere” in work-from-anywhere to new... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; COVID-19 Pandemic; Collaboration; Work-Life Balance; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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28 Sep 2017
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Local Bookstores Show How Retailers Can Serve Communities

01 Feb 2001
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Happy Campers: HBS Student Auction Helps Local Kids

boxing gloves, and a private serenade. The auction was designed to bring members of the cohort together to make a contribution to the local community. "We're hoping to stay in touch with the kids even after we graduate," said Andrew... View Details

Keywords: Cambridge Camping Association; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

October 2004
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FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets

By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek

The purpose of this paper is to examine the various links among foreign direct investment, financial markets and growth. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents have two choices: they can work for the foreign company in... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Cost; Wealth; Investment Return; Knowledge

23 Oct 2020
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Students Pair with Local Black-Owned Businesses in New MBA Field Course

2009
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Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana

We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has shifted away from understanding... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Community Relations; Local Range; Civil Society or Community; Power and Influence

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March 2014
Teaching Note

ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability Teaching Note

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

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2003
Working Paper

International Capital Flows When Investors Have Local Information

By: Joshua D. Coval

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06 Feb 2025
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When Migrants and Locals Innovate Together, Communities Gain

16 Jun 2023
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How to Scale Local Innovations in Big Companies

2023
Working Paper

The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-owned Local Businesses

By: Abhay Aneja, Michael Luca and Oren Reshef

Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? To explore, we analyze a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned restaurants on a large online platform. We find that labeling restaurants as “Black-owned” increased customer engagement and... View Details

Keywords: Black-owned Businesses; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Ownership; Knowledge Dissemination; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Food and Beverage Industry

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June 1993 (Revised June 1994)
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IBM: A Product for Managing Local Area Networks (B)

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10 Aug 2008
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Brands act local to woo a billion Chinese consumers

February 2014 (Revised September 2014)
Teaching Note

The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism

By: Juan Alcacer

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08 Aug 2011
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Economics Journal: Women in Local Politics Offer Biggest Benefit

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

Real estate has traditionally been a local business, but more and more, it’s becoming global, the same way so many other businesses have. On a year-to-year basis, we’ve been seeing global cross-border flows into real estate increase by 10... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

2021
Working Paper

International Evidence on the Effects of a Local Presence by U.S. Credit Rating Agencies

By: Liran Eliner, Michael Machokoto and Anywhere Sikochi

Major U.S. credit rating agencies are criticized for failing to understand developments in other economies and thereby impeding capital access by assigning lower ratings. Consistent with this, we find that Moody's and S&P credit ratings are more favorable after the... View Details

Keywords: Credit Rating Agencies; Credit Ratings; Rating Adjustments; Rating Disagreement; Geographic Proximity; Soft Information; Credit; Geographic Location; Local Range

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