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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
world wants the United States to be competitive. For more than a century, global observers have considered the U.S. economy to be an exemplar and America a country to envy and imitate. Unfortunately,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of...
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Martha Lagace
- September 2012
- Case
SCMS: Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa
By: Ananth Raman, Noel Watson, Santiago Kraiselburd and Emmanuel Akili
In 2005, USAID and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) to procure and distribute essential medicines and supplies; provide technical assistance to transform existing supply chains; and...
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HIV;
AIDS;
Procurement Coordination;
Developing Countries;
Healthcare;
Public Health;
Ethiopia;
Supply Systems For Healthcare Delivery In Developing Countries;
Healthcare Logistics Industry;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Supply Chain Management;
Logistics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Programs;
Transition;
Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Health Industry;
Ethiopia;
Africa
Raman, Ananth, Noel Watson, Santiago Kraiselburd, and Emmanuel Akili. "SCMS: Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 613-023, September 2012.
- September 2008
- Case
TCS: The MCA 21 Project
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to bid on a high-profile government project within India. The project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS's progression from a...
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Experience and Expertise;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Operations;
Projects;
India
Upton, David M., and Bradley R. Staats. "TCS: The MCA 21 Project." Harvard Business School Case 609-024, September 2008.
- June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Microfin
By: Michael Chu and Enrique Kramer
The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America. Supported by a globally recognized industry player, it is the result of the efforts of two fledgling local entrepreneurs with a business model they...
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Business Model;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Microfinance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Industry Structures;
Competitive Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Latin America
Chu, Michael, and Enrique Kramer. "Microfin." Harvard Business School Case 309-126, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
cost to identify and investigate. The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Periodical:Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Liberia
By: Eric Werker and Jasmina Beganovic
From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict and economic decline are complex and intertwined, resting on over a century of discriminatory elite rule and twisted...
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War;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Government and Politics;
Macroeconomics;
Liberia
Werker, Eric, and Jasmina Beganovic. "Liberia." Harvard Business School Case 712-011, September 2011. (Revised March 2014.)
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
the global economy and the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) have raised the interest in understanding the specific conditions and cross-company interactions within and across locations. For companies, the need to choose the right...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
A second survey of nearly 7,000 HBS alumni and just over 1,000 members of the general public found ongoing concern regarding America's ability to compete in the global economy but wide agreement between View Details
- April 2017 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Restructuring Ukraine
By: Kristin Mugford, Seema Amble and Tian Feng
In June 2015, Ukraine found itself struggling with a volatile and devalued currency, dramatically diminished foreign reserves, and a projected financing shortfall of $40 billion. Ukraine’s new government sought to return the nation to stability following political...
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Exchange Rates;
Politics;
Macroeconomics;
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Restructuring;
Economy;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Banks and Banking;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Bonds;
Sovereign Finance;
Capital Markets;
Credit;
Debt Securities;
Financial Liquidity;
Financial Markets;
Government and Politics;
Ukraine
Mugford, Kristin, Seema Amble, and Tian Feng. "Restructuring Ukraine." Harvard Business School Case 217-049, April 2017. (Revised February 2020.)
- April, 2023
- Article
Reducing Information Barriers to Solar Adoption: Experimental Evidence from India
By: Meera Mahadevan, Robyn C. Meeks and Takashi Yamano
Off-grid solar technologies hold promise for unelectrified and low-quality electricity settings; however, their adoption remains low. Important barriers to adoption, such as incomplete information remain relatively unexplored in developing countries. In collaboration...
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Technology Adoption;
Renewable Energy;
Knowledge Sharing;
Developing Countries and Economies;
India
Mahadevan, Meera, Robyn C. Meeks, and Takashi Yamano. "Reducing Information Barriers to Solar Adoption: Experimental Evidence from India." Energy Economics 120 (April, 2023).
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
understanding of design and manufacturing processes to instruct successfully her American and offshore contractors on how to mass-produce designer clothing at affordable prices. Claiborne was an industry pioneer in many ways. She...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Offshore Wind Energy in the USA Harvard Business School Case 708-022 Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY—not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
If you are an executive of a multinational looking for geographies in which to expand your markets, operations, and investments, is China more attractive than India? South Africa better than Mexico? Does Russia have more promise than the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Book
International Differences in Entrepreneurship
By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market. As a result,...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Supply and Industry;
Business and Government Relations
Lerner, Josh, and Antoinette Schoar, eds. International Differences in Entrepreneurship. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification
By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale
In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady...
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Economy;
Inflation and Deflation;
Central Banking;
Interest Rates;
Political Elections;
Situation or Environment;
Integration;
Europe;
Germany;
Italy;
United Kingdom
Lodge, George C., and James W. Ragsdale. "Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification." Harvard Business School Case 793-033, September 1992. (Revised July 1998.)
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Prioritizing such goals would work against having taxes based on personal characteristics. Now, if the gain in terms of reduced total sacrifice were large enough from taxing height, we might do it despite the cost in terms of other goals. For instance, if we lived in...
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by Martha Lagace