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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
technologies are a tremendous opportunity not only to create products we can export worldwide, but also to reduce high fuel costs in the United States, including home heating fuel, which hits the poor more than it hits the rich. Q: One of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
crisis? Did the International Monetary Fund (IMF) help or hinder recovery? Did democracy help or hinder recovery? Seen as an economic miracle, Korea succumbed to the wave of currency crises sweeping Asia in late 1997. Did the same state-led View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before the end of British colonial rule in 1960. Seizing business opportunities as he saw demand, Odutola moved between markets...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
investment opportunities under British law. Exports of labor-intensive, capital-light manufactures by countries with relatively low labor costs—e.g., textiles and garments—involved arbitrage as well, but across economic differences rather...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52089...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories, whose primary clients were European, U.S., and Canadian firms. Export contracts to such firms had helped Bangladesh become the world's second largest clothing exporter. Rana Plaza...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
could not only “change the way the government uses your tax dollars” by increasing the pace of development, but also “get better products and services that we can sell and export around the world.” Around the same time, Rogers met General...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(PBOC) manages (some say manipulates) the dollar-yuan exchange rate. It discusses briefly the process of sterilization in China and the possible costs for the PBOC. Therefore, the note summarizes some of the main challenges the PBOC faces to contain inflation in China...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative offering. This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the structure and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-006 Muñoz Group Faces Brexit In 2016, Muñoz Group, a multifaceted agribusiness company that developed, produced, packed, imported, and exported...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Fijian government, which recently dramatically raised imposed export taxes and could limit FIJI Water's access to water, its primary raw material. The case enables students to better understand the challenges of implementing an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
controlled Mittelstand (small and medium-sized firms) that remain very entrepreneurial, though in a quiet fashion. Germany remains an export leader today because of those secretive firms. They have made widespread adjustments because of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
financial autonomy to collect export taxes and spend on public goods. The argument is that trade shocks affect asymmetrically the tax revenues of state governments and, thus, their expenditures on elementary education per capita according...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
mining and exporting raw phosphate rock—its traditional focus, which it performed at a relatively low cost—towards greater production of phosphoric acid and finished fertilizer products. In the next phase of the program, OCP planned to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
indicators. Statistical tests show that differences in average episode values between the two groups are significant for the following: amount of FDI received, the share of natural resource rents in GDP, investment, export growth,...
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Anna Secino
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
value after the crisis turns out to be a relevant consideration. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708402 Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony Harvard Business School Case 508-001 Vegpro, a horticulture company, is Kenya's...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries. The instrumented elasticity of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic adjacencies, and its "farm gate to factory...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809122 Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-027 In 2005, the government of India enacted the Special Economic Zones...
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Martha Lagace