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Medium-term Business Cycles
By: Diego Comin and Mark Gertler
Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend....
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Fluctuation;
Information Technology;
Research and Development;
Resource Allocation;
Framework;
Trends;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Productivity
Comin, Diego, and Mark Gertler. "Medium-term Business Cycles." American Economic Review 96, no. 3 (June 2006).
- 2017
- Working Paper
International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The...
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Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Developing Countries and Economies;
History;
Emerging Markets;
Problems and Challenges
Jones, Geoffrey. "International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-020, September 2017.
- 2008
- Book
On Competition
By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it...
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Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
- November 2005
- Supplement
Nestle's Milk Districts: Case Supplement
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman
Nestle as the largest milk company in the world, has a history of economic development, nutrition, health, and food safety in all the major countries of the world. Each milk model is tailor-made to the needs of each country's political, social, and economic priorities.
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Nutrition;
Health;
Food;
Government and Politics;
Social Psychology;
Economics;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Kerry Herman. "Nestle's Milk Districts: Case Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 906-411, November 2005.
- 2020
- Chapter
El problema de la productividad [The Productivity Problem]
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The weak performance of the Latin American region in terms of the growth of its GDP is largely due to its low productivity growth. In fact, the region's main problem has been its lack of efficiency in combining capital and labor to produce. In this chapter, we...
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Keywords:
GDP Growth;
Productivity Growth;
Efficiency;
Labor;
Capital;
Growth and Development;
Latin America
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "El problema de la productividad [The Productivity Problem]." Chap. 3 in El desafío del desarrollo en América Latina. Políticas para una región más productiva, integrada e inclusiva [The Challenge of Development in Latin America: Policies for a More Productive, Integrated and Inclusive Region], 85–123. Caracas, Venezuela: CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina, 2020, Spanish ed.
- June 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel J. Isenberg and Ant Bozkaya
Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home countries to start businesses with global technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict and Resolution;
Turkey
Kerr, William R., Daniel J. Isenberg, and Ant Bozkaya. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 807-175, June 2007. (Revised June 2011.) (This case replaces "Bundling the Contracts: TA-Energy", Harvard Business School Case 807-075, by Kerr and Bozkaya.)
- 09 May 2016
- Blog Post
What To Know For An International Job Search
An international job search is always challenging, and it becomes increasingly hard when you are looking to move to a new country following several years of work elsewhere. It’s not an easy transition when your contacts are on one...
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- 31 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences
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by Eric D. Werker
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth century international history, focusing on political economy and foreign policy in Southeast Asia.
Professor Fibiger's current book project is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the... View Details
Professor Fibiger's current book project is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the... View Details
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General Management Program
accomplished peers who span functions, industries, and countries Who Should Attend GMP is designed for executives who are looking to expand their professional impact through an end-to-end view of the enterprise, an in-depth understanding...
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- 13 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
- March 2012
- Article
How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth--Until Now
By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
Societies that are better at utilizing tools are likely to be more productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to...
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Keywords:
Technology Adoption;
Wealth;
Development Economics;
Performance Productivity;
Competitive Advantage
Comin, Diego, and Bart Hobijn. "How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth--Until Now." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012): 34–35.
- April 2013
- Article
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
By: Karthik Ramanna
The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international political dynamics of countries' IFRS...
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Keywords:
Accounting Standards;
IASB;
IFRS;
Politics;
International Accounting;
Globalization;
Standards;
Corporate Governance;
Canada;
China;
India
Ramanna, Karthik. "The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization." Accounting, Economics and Law 3, no. 2 (April 2013): 1–46. (Published in a dedicated issue of the journal together with four discussions, including two by the chairpersons of the national accounting standards bodies of France and Japan.)
- March 2008 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise
Members of IBM's fifth Integration and Values Team (IVT5) were close to finishing their deliberations. Convened by Sam Palmisano, Chairman and CEO, and sponsored by Jon Iwata, Senior VP of Corporate Communications and Marketing, and John E. Kelly III, Senior VP and...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Innovation and Management;
Leadership Development;
Management Teams;
Organizational Culture;
Integration
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 308-105, March 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
Michael A. Wheeler
Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
By: Karthik Ramanna
The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international political dynamics of countries' IFRS...
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Keywords:
Accounting Standards;
Globalization;
IASB;
IFRS;
Politics;
Financial Reporting;
International Accounting;
Global Strategy;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Standards;
China;
India;
Canada
Ramanna, Karthik. "The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-132, June 2011. (Revised August 2011, March 2012, August 2012, October 2012. Forthcoming in Accounting, Economics & Law.)
- June 2010 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
The Guggenheims and Chilean Nitrates
By: Geoffrey Jones and Felipe Tamega Fernandes
The case describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion led the firm to Chile, first in copper and later in natural nitrates. Chile's economic growth was driven by the...
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Keywords:
History;
Venture Capital;
Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Financial Crisis;
Mining Industry;
Chile
Jones, Geoffrey, and Felipe Tamega Fernandes. "The Guggenheims and Chilean Nitrates." Harvard Business School Case 810-141, June 2010. (Revised January 2019.)
- Research Summary
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
By: Sandra J. Sucher
In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion....
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Keywords:
Growth Management;
Renting or Rental;
Corporate Governance;
Global Strategy;
Failure;
Singapore;
Hong Kong
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations." Harvard Business School Case 811-078, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Michael Chu
Chu's teaching focuses on businesses providing goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income sectors that constitute the market below the well-served top of the socio-economic pyramid. In developed countries such as the USA, this may be 40-50% of the...
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