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- January 1989
- Case
General Foods Corp.: Local Marketing
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "General Foods Corp.: Local Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 589-029, January 1989.
- 04 Mar 2014
- News
Learn Your Local Praise Culture
- January 2022
- Article
Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino and Timothy McQuade
We examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise. We identify local demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm...
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Keywords:
Firms;
Entrepreneurs;
Demand Shocks;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Characteristics;
Demographics;
Opportunities;
Brazil
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino, and Timothy McQuade. "Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?" Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1 (January 2022): 107–130.
- Nov 01 2017
- Testimonial
Moving from Local to Global
- October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel Gordon
As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh—a...
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Keywords:
Local Range;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Power and Influence;
Johannesburg;
London
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Rachel Gordon. "ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability." Harvard Business School Case 311-004, October 2010. (Revised July 2013.)
- September–October 1995
- Article
Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Thriving Locally in the Global Economy." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 5 (September–October 1995): 151–160. (Reprinted in World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy, edited by J. Garten. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, pp. 227-243.)
- 29 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
- September 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
AmorePacific: From Local to Global Beauty
By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Kiron
Suh Kyung-Bae, the President and CEO of AmorePacific, a South Korean cosmetics company, was an ardent globalizer. In its home market, AmorePacific had held off major multinational players such as L'Oreal and Estee Lauder and had engaged them in markets around the...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Local Range;
Global Range;
Global Strategy;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
South Korea
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and David Kiron. "AmorePacific: From Local to Global Beauty." Harvard Business School Case 706-411, September 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
solution-oriented, solution-minded. If you see yourself as a problem solver or a policy entrepreneur and you want to do the work that helps people, being at the local level right now affords you great opportunity to have real impact.”...
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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
The Value of Local Independent Bookstores
- 2012
- Working Paper
The Effect of Supply Chain Complementarities on Local Food
By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
We study the operational tradeoffs of a retailer and farmers in a fresh produce supply chain to determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and...
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- April 2002
- Background Note
Local Institutions and Global Strategy
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics....
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Keywords:
Global Range;
Global Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Market Transactions;
Industry Structures;
Negotiation Deal;
Organizational Design;
Outcome or Result;
Strategic Planning
Khanna, Tarun. "Local Institutions and Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-475, April 2002.
- August 1983 (Revised July 1984)
- Technical Note
Local Area Networks, Technical Note
Porter, Leslie R., and John J. Sviokla. "Local Area Networks, Technical Note." Harvard Business School Technical Note 184-015, August 1983. (Revised July 1984.)
- November 2003 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence
Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an international strategy but in 2003, recovering from the Argentine financial crisis, thwarts globalization plans. Already Latin America's leading candy producer and an exporter to over 100...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decision Making;
Global Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Argentina
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Michael G. Rukstad, and Jenny Illes. "Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence." Harvard Business School Case 704-427, November 2003. (Revised November 2005.)
- Article
The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy
By: Matthew Joseph, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to...
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Joseph, Matthew, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel, and Aaron Leon Roth. "The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy." Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 60th (2019).
- 15 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis
Keywords:
by Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche
- 31 Aug 2020
- News
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
- 2013
- Article
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male...
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Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 6 (November 2013): 929–964. (Winner of the FPD Academy Award for Best World Bank Research in Finance and Private Sector Development.)
- 27 Jul 2017
- Video