Publications

24 Oct 2018
News

Exploring the Future of Work for Women

artificial intelligence, the growth of the gig economy, increasing global mobility, longer career spans, and changing work-life demands are all factors that are reshaping work. What those changes mean for women in the workplace, and how... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

of the Case Research and Writing Group. “No one believed that you could create a brand in tomatoes—a commodity!” The case details how, during an economic downturn, a small business in its fourth generation of family ownership became one... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog

the context of increasing pressures of global urbanization, resource scarcity, and perils relating to climate change. The course takes a finance and real assets point of view focusing on houses, buildings, infrastructure, and cities as... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Thanks to the combined energy of over six hundred enthusiastic alumni, a dozen insightful HBS faculty members, and a score of respected experts, the 1997 Harvard Business School Global Alumni Conference, "Greater China: Myths, Realities,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details

Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho

01 Mar 2010
News

A New Oath for Business Leaders

At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Forum for Young Global Leaders (YGL) resolved to study the idea of developing an oath to guide decision-making when facing tough business choices.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

overseas. Although it is questionable whether the industry can continue to grow at the same pace as in recent years, the authors predict that venture capital firms will be "an enduring feature on the global View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

Profile

Niklas James

“I believe I was eight years, when I was playing Monopoly with my grandmother, and she said I was made for business,” Niklas James suggests, when asked when he first heard his vocational call. He followed up with undergraduate and graduate degrees in View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Career Coach

Layla A. Ramirez

Tomorrow (MLT), after spending several years in Global Wealth & Investment Management at Merrill Lynch. She has amassed an array of work experience in a multitude of cultural contexts throughout Asia, Europe, North America and Latin... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Technology

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

a market economy, political liberty, and human rights have entered Mongolian society. We are a kind and friendly people who are learning these essential values of democracy. With gold and copper the country’s main exports, the drop in commodity prices and the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

strategic environment for transnational business. These informal rules and bargains include the political coalitions that sustain globalization and the dynamics of international business in different contexts of View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

peace in the forests of British Columbia Complete Table of Contents December 2016 The Year in Books 2016 Alumni Authors on the Shelves The Dragon’s Tale Professor Warren McFarlan on China’s ascent from famine and revolution to global... View Details

June 1993 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Retail in Mexico 1993

By: David B. Yoffie and Charles McHugh LaFollette

In the wake of NAFTA, U.S. retail firms begin to see Mexico as an attractive market for international expansion. This case examines the structure of Mexico's volume retail (grocery, discount, warehouse club, hypermarket) industry, the joint ventures between U.S. and... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Joint Ventures; Industry Structures; Trade; Retail Industry; United States; Mexico

April 1983 (Revised December 1985)
Case

Countertrade and Merban Corp.

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Trade; Global Range; Business and Government Relations; United States; Europe; Asia

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September 2007
Case

Tetra Pak Argentina

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Gustavo A. Herrero

Deals with the hands-on management of a difficult situation facing the subsidiary of a multinational corporation (Tetra Pak) in a developing country (Argentina). The situation arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Sovereign Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Argentina