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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment." In Foreign Direct Investment in the Real and Financial Sector of Industrial Countries, edited by Heinz Herrmann and Robert Lipsey, 61–98. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
- Research Summary
Energy Strategy
Forest L. Reinhardt is writing cases and other materials on the strategic problems and opportunitites faced by firms in the energy industry. Significant economies of scale and scope, combined with rapid technological change, present firms in the industry with a...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
significant challenges to multinationals, in part because the role of government in the economy is still more pervasive there than in other parts of the world." But, he adds,...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 1980
- Mimeo
The Generation of Industrial Technology by the Less Developed Countries
By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Louis T Wells Jr
- January 2004
- Supplement
Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003
By: David A. Moss
- 22 Jan 2024
- Podcast
Linda Hill on Leading Change and the Paradoxes of Management
Great leadership requires being both a value creator and a game changer. In this episode of The Parlor Room, host Chris Linnane sits down with HBS Professor Linda Hill to explore what that means through the lens of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine development. They also...
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- July 13, 2023
- Article
Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu
Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature...
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Decentralization;
Twitter;
Facebook;
Instagram;
Crypto Economy;
Blockchain;
Network;
Industrial Organization;
Competition;
Open Innovation;
Open Platforms;
Open Source Innovation;
Social Networks;
Social Media;
Applications and Software;
Information Technology Industry
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Liang Wu. "Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 13, 2023).
- 24 Apr 2023
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks
industries. They all add up to extra costs and burdens for young businesses trying to establish themselves, says Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration. The challenges include operating at View Details
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Marketing and Privacy Concerns
When finer consumer information becomes available, competing firms sometimes target consumers too finely, disrupting scale economies prematurely. This leads to excessive product variety or to the wasteful exclusion of certain consumer types. This paper suggests that...
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- 28 Jun 2023
- News
Senators Probe Employers’ Use of ‘Manager’ Title to Avoid Overtime
- 16 Nov 2022
- Podcast
U.S. DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal
Jigar Shah, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, shares some of the technical and finance challenges and opportunities of carbon removal solutions, and shares how transitioning his private-sector energy finance background into government...
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- 18 Mar 2024
- Podcast
Helena Foulkes: The Power of Asking “What Could Go Right?”
Research has repeatedly shown that we are hard-wired to worry. Whether we worry about our own survival, our family and friends, or our future, it can seem like we spend much of our lives fixated on what could go wrong. In this episode, Helena Foulkes discusses how...
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- 14 Nov 2022
- Podcast
Arcos Dorados Founder Woods Staton: The Importance of Core Principles
Arcos Dorados (Golden Arches in English) is the world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee. It has restaurants across Latin America and the Caribbean. Founder Woods Staton says purpose is a work in progress for his company. But having core principles helped...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
can decarbonize is by doing it at scale and thinking about the future implications that a solution like green cement would have,” Dylan tells us. (02:10) The energy-intensive processes involved in construction, including cement...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
locations in India, as one solution. She also explored ways that health care products can be produced at lower costs, making them accessible to larger populations, while working for a Boston-based medical technology company during the summer View Details
- March 2011
- Article
The New M&A Playbook
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising and Andrew Waldeck
Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A failure rate is between 70% and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Disruptive Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Integration
Christensen, Clayton M., Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck. "The New M&A Playbook." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011).
- 12 Nov 2015
- News