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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

By: Diego A. Comin and Marti Mestieri Ferrer
We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor... View Details
Keywords: Income Characteristics; Technology Adoption; Globalization
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    Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie

    Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

    He is the... View Details

    • December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
    • Case

    Olam International

    By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
    In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Polarizing Corporations: Does Talent Flow to "Good" Firms?

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Tim McQuade, Gabriel Ramos, Thomas Rauter and Olivia Xiong
    We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices of firms affect talent allocation. We find both an average job-seeker’s preference for ESG and a large degree of... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Search; Talent and Talent Management; Wages; Attitudes
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    • 04 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Life

    of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life?... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • January 1996 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    R.R. Donnelley & Sons: The Digital Division

    By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March
    In June 1995, Barbara Schetter, VP and general manager of R.R. Donnelley's Digital Division, is struggling to gain acceptance from other groups and divisions at the printing giant. The Digital Division employs radically new technology--digital printing presses and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Model; Business Plan; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Technology Adoption; Value Creation
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    • December 2023
    • Case

    Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The case profiles the development of cluster-based economic development activities in Catalonia, one of Spain's most prosperous regions, over the last thirty years. It describes the evolution of these activities between 1990 and 2022 and puts these changes into the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Sectors; Economy; Geographic Location; Policy; Development Economics; Spain
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    • 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
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    • 22 Feb 2018
    • News

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    • October 2008 (Revised August 2010)
    • Background Note

    Understanding the Credit Crisis of 2007 to 2008

    By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
    This note details the background of the credit crisis, discusses potential causes of it, and considers its ramifications. The exhibits contain a variety of pertinent data regarding the rise of securitization, debt levels, and typical aspects of financial crises. A new... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Markets
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      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
      • 29 Sep 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

      Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven
      • 29 Oct 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

      problems like advertising auctions and market design. The accelerating phenomenon has given rise to a new field within economics called the economics of digitization. Research... View Details
      Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
      • September 2007
      • Journal Article

      Refugee Camp Economies

      By: Eric D. Werker
      This paper describes the economy of a refugee camp. Key distortions to the economy of Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda are noted and the findings are used to construct a generic model of a refugee camp economy. Camp economies are influenced by host country... View Details
      Keywords: Refugees; Economy; Policy; Civil Society or Community; Human Needs; Societal Protocols; Uganda
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      • May 1997
      • Case

      Center for Women & Enterprise: Looking for a Director of Development with "The Scrappiness Factor"

      By: Thomas J. Kosnik and Natalie Zakarian
      Andrea Silbert is founder of the Center for Women & Enterprise, a nonprofit with a mission to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. She must select a new senior sales executive, decide how to share... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship
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      • March 2009 (Revised October 2010)
      • Case

      Tokyo AFM

      By: Francois Brochet
      This case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economics; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Japan
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      • February 2003 (Revised June 2003)
      • Case

      Interface's Evergreen Services Agreement

      In an attempt to reduce its ecological footprint, Interface Americas, a leading manufacturer of commercial carpet tile, has launched the Evergreen Services Agreement (ESA)--a lease agreement that provides would-be carpet purchasers with comprehensive floor-covering... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Consumer Products Industry; Houston
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      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

      By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang
      Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth of... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Economic Growth; China
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      • 25 Jul 2023
      • Blog Post

      Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

      business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details
      • 2008
      • Chapter

      Matching and Market Design

      By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
      Matching is the part of economics concerned with who transacts with whom and how. Models of matching, starting with the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, have been particularly useful in studying labour markets and in helping design clearinghouses to fix... View Details
      Keywords: Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Outcome or Result; Mathematical Methods
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