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- Winter 2017
- Article
Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play
By: Benjamin Edelman
I present Google practices that have raised objections from competition regulators. I consider the key impediments to competition and examine the business models foreclosed by Google's restrictions.
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Keywords:
Antitrust;
Mobile;
Mobile Technology;
Search Technology;
Technology Platform;
Contracts;
Lawfulness;
Competition;
Information Technology Industry;
European Union;
Russia;
South Korea
Edelman, Benjamin. "Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play." Antitrust Chronicle (Winter 2017).
- March 1986 (Revised August 1986)
- Case
Samsung International, Inc.
A major Korean firm has begun production of televisions in the United States. Output and quality are below Korean standards. Students must determine why and suggest ways to improve.
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Quality;
Production;
Performance Productivity;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
South Korea
Amsden, Alice H. "Samsung International, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 686-123, March 1986. (Revised August 1986.)
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
and Singapore grew in double digits at the beginning of their economic ascent but slowed, while Chile, Ireland, and South Korea didn't appear on the double-digit chart at all.) In the report Werker...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Working Paper: Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services What View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
companies such as Sony and Matsushita) led to the migration of R&D in consumer electronics to Japan (and later to South Korea and Taiwan). As consumers demanded ever-smaller, lighter, and more powerful...
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- April 1986 (Revised March 1987)
- Case
Asia's Four Little Dragons
By: Norman A. Berg
Berg, Norman A. "Asia's Four Little Dragons." Harvard Business School Case 386-186, April 1986. (Revised March 1987.)
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
quickly—infrastructure that doesn't currently exist—and address the economic crisis at the same time. And then the question to the philanthropists is, 'Is that worth it to you?'” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer Based in Boston. [Image: CasarsaGuru] Related...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the Asia-Pacific region. Poised to enter the World Trade Organization, China is sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless technology in View Details
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- Teaching Interest
Globalization and Emerging Markets
Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who will be investing, managing a business or nonprofit, or working for a government in an emerging market. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from countries to multinational and domestic companies... View Details
Keywords:
Emerging Market;
Globalization;
BRICS;
N11;
Resource Allocation;
Pakistan;
Angola;
Dubai;
South Korea;
South Africa;
Turkey;
Liberia;
China;
Brazil;
Nigeria
- 2012
- Working Paper
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian...
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Keywords:
Immigration;
Gender;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Education;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
East Asia;
Japan;
South Korea;
Taiwan;
Singapore
Kawaguchi, Daiji, and Soohyung Lee. "Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-082, March 2012.
- 04 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Renaissance Italy to the nineteenth-century USA to South Korea in the 1960s and contemporary China. This does not mean that governments always know what they are doing, far from it, but it does indicate that...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2014
- Panel Discussion
Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Keywords:
CSR;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Outsourced Production;
Outsourcing;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Auditing;
Audit Quality;
Gender;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Bias;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
China;
India;
Pakistan;
Bangladesh;
Mexico;
Brazil;
Viet Nam;
Indonesia;
Philippines;
Sri Lanka;
Taiwan;
South Korea
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors." Elevate Limited Webinar, July 17, 2014. (Webinar coordinated by Elevate Limited.)
- January 2022
- Case
Walmart Goes Global (A)
By: Juan Alcácer
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
away protectionist barriers in developing countries. As multinational corporations from North America, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea stormed into the emerging markets, many local companies lost...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider focused on South Korea and China, and typically partners with Korean entrepreneurial firms. The Cherrypicks management team must decide how they should pitch the...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
people—so it's just more difficult to think strategically and long term here as opposed to in South Korea or Singapore. China has had the luxury, or curse, of a high degree of centralization that makes...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin