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- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a...
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Professor (2022) Oren Danieli, 2019 Tel-Aviv University, School of Economics Janelle Schlossberger, 2019 Michael Hammer Postdoctoral FellowMassachusetts Institute of Technology, View Details
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Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Harvard Business Review:Smart, Connected Products Health Care: Value-Based Health Care U.S. COMPETITIVENESS: Competition in the Politics Industry The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness is a nonprofit research, education,...
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- May 2021
- Case
Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?
Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity have been low for the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute, which...
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Keywords:
Productivity;
Productivity Growth;
Conflict;
Labor Force Participation;
Labor Market;
Competitiveness;
Dutch Disease;
Security;
Peace;
Informality;
Labor Laws;
Total Factor Productivity;
Labor Productivity;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Economics;
Development Economics;
Economic Growth;
Economy;
Macroeconomics;
Conflict Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Infrastructure;
Negotiation;
Inflation and Deflation;
Non-Renewable Energy;
National Security;
Government Administration;
Latin America;
Central America;
Colombia;
South America
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?" Harvard Business School Case 721-053, May 2021.
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Tirole, an economist at the University of Toulouse and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In their new working paper, "The Simple Economics of Open Source," Lerner and Tirole make the case...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
entrepreneurs developed index numbers, leading indicators, and new economic charts, and even founded important institutions like the National Bureau of Economic Research. The...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Institutional Ownership Spurs Tax Avoidance: Study
- November – December 1998
- Article
Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
This article explains how clusters foster high levels of productivity and innovation and lays out the implications for competitive strategy and economic policy. Economic geography in an era of global competition poses a paradox. In theory, location should no longer be...
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Porter, Michael E. "Clusters and the New Economics of Competition." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 6 (November–December 1998): 77–90.
- April 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Singapore: 'Facing Challenges Together'
Since its expulsion from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore had transformed itself from a third world island nation into a vibrant city-state with one of the highest levels of GDP per capita in the world. However, sluggish demand among Singapore's major trade partners began...
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Keywords:
Savings;
Productivity Growth;
Productivity;
Economic Institutions;
Economic Development;
Government And Business;
Government Policy;
Economic Policy;
Country Analysis;
Investment And Savings;
Institutions;
Economic Growth;
Macroeconomics;
Development Economics;
Investment;
Government and Politics;
Trade;
Policy;
Research and Development;
Analysis;
Economics;
Business and Government Relations;
Asia;
Singapore;
Southeast Asia
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Singapore: 'Facing Challenges Together'." Harvard Business School Case 720-036, April 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
- October 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform
By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
South Korea, as one of the Asian "tiger" economies, transformed itself into the world's 11th largest economy and major exporter by 1996, emerging from being one of the lowest income countries in the region back in the 1960s. Yet one year later in 1997, Korea was swept...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Financial Crisis;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
South Korea
Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform." Harvard Business School Case 708-007, October 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms
Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable...
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Keywords:
Economy;
Capital;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Labor;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Practice;
Conflict of Interests;
Social Issues;
Theory
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-119, May 2011.
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which...
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Milstein, MD, MPH Rationale and Objectives: To quantify the costs and work of diagnostic radiology (DR) residents using the radiology key performance indicator turn-around time (TAT) as the outcome measure. Materials and Methods: In an View Details
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Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Clusters What Are Clusters? Today’s economic map of the world is characterized by “clusters.” A cluster is a geographic concentration of related companies, organizations, and institutions in a...
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Biography Biography Career Timeline Biography Michael...
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national...
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- March 2011
- Article
Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans
By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Between 2001 and 2007, annual institutional funding in highly leveraged loans went up from $32 billion to $426 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the jump in total syndicated loan issuance over the same period. Did the inflow of institutional funding in the...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Financial Crisis;
Credit;
Debt Securities;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates;
Investment
Ivashina, Victoria, and Zheng Sun. "Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans ." Journal of Financial Economics 99, no. 3 (March 2011): 500–522.
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Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
collaboration with educational institutions around the world. The course is not only an educational vehicle but also a tool to enable an institution and its people to influence and support View Details