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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without...
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Martha Lagace
- November 1994 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Duncan G. Copeland and Chris L Marshall
McFarlan, F. Warren, Duncan G. Copeland, and Chris L Marshall. "Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-102, November 1994. (Revised August 1995.)
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
nonfinancial information that has not yet been provided. Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective Author:G. Jones Publication:EurAmerica 41, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract This paper uses the beauty industry to explore...
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Carmen Nobel
- April 2019
- Case
GE Appliances: Implementing Haier's Made-In-China Management System
By: Dennis Campbell, Marshall Meyer, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
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Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
China;
United States
Campbell, Dennis, Marshall Meyer, Bonnie Yining Cao, and Dawn H. Lau. "GE Appliances: Implementing Haier's Made-In-China Management System." Harvard Business School Case 119-099, April 2019.
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Case 411-081 This case is about the establishment, growth, and direction of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park (Zhangjiang Park), which is located in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. Considered to be one of the most competitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be nearly obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Review] Global Business over Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
capture strategies for modular systems. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2121600 Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes Authors:Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We model spatial View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
its members in several prolonged, tightly clustered sessions, or (2) path-clearing by helping a team address a persistent deficit via briefer, intermittent sessions throughout a project's life. We present a model theorizing these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
composition as a key but largely endogenous part of development, while structural economies conceptualizes it as a fundamental driver. Competitiveness policy is about leveraging existing clusters as a platform for upgrading microeconomic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
became instruments of liberty; economic ideas once marshaled to the cause of imperialism were transformed into a political economy of independence in former colonies, a political economy anchored in the essential necessity of encouraging...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
of corporations. The sixth section of the chapter summarizes accounts that aim to specify standards for MNCs without having to take a position on the purpose of the corporation or the moral agency of corporations. August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using the analytical tools of...
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- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
are presently clustered in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is Slovakia—with its 19 percent flat rate—that has captured the world's attention of late, says HBS professor Laura Alfaro. Why? What are the goals and complexities of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
I've begun to study Latin America. "I've written a series of papers on how industry structure changes following liberalization. Going forward I'm doing a series of cases and starting some research on high-tech View Details
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by Martha Lagace