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  • August 2018
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

Zhuo Business Economics Sagar Saxena Business Economics “ HBS is the ideal environment because I get to think about the world like an economist, but I have the freedom and resources to draw on methods from other disciplines as I study... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • April 1983 (Revised October 1990)
  • Background Note

Textiles and the Multi-Fiber Arrangement

By: David B. Yoffie
What happens to an industry with millions of employees that loses its comparative advantage? This note examines this question by looking at the global textile and apparel industry. With the Multi-Fiber Arrangement coming up for renewal in December 1981, the United... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Europe
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

challenge will make a huge difference for the world that we experience in the coming decades—for our children, and for the world that future generations inherit. The Climate Leadership Panel, moderated by... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

Love at HBS is an annual celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. Even with the unique challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, love has endured, and our students have... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in many countries around the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2005
  • Book

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides an essential framework for understanding global business. It shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; History; Economy; Trade; Strategy
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  • 24 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program

discussion groups; and trading stories of life experiences and sidesplitting tales of professional gaffes in the HBS courtyard. Whatever awaited me at Harvard Business School, I thought, would be unforgettable. The SVMP Class of 2022 met... View Details

    The Big Ditch

    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

    • 14 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
    • 29 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

    Rich and Famous." As they grew richer, pressure increased on those below to trade up. And, as they traded up, pressure increased in turn on the well-off to buy even more—the second home, the big screen TV,... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
    • June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
    • Supplement

    Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (C)

    By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
    On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Investment; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; State Ownership; Sovereign Finance; Business Strategy; Dubai
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    • 2019
    • Book

    The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

    By: Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert
    The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an “economic turn” that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; France; Europe
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    • 25 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 25, 2008

    disproportionate fraction of the total abnormal returns to skilled trading by mutual funds estimated in prior work. Third World Multinationals: A Look Back Author: Louis T. Wells, Jr. Publication: Chap. 2 in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1

    Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 07 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

    the center of global trade disputes. World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes between Europe and the United States over hormone-treated beef and genetically modified crops evoke... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 25 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

    The significance of SHEIN for global competitiveness is that for the first time since Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping opened the country to world trade in the 1970s, a proud Chinese retail brand bridging... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    1966–1980 Sewell L. Avery Montgomery, Ward and Company, 1936–1955 B Earl D. Babst American Sugar Refining, 1915–1937 Jules S. Bache J. S. Bache & Company, 1892–1944 Leo H. Baekeland Bakelite Corporation, 1909–1939 Melvin H. Baker National... View Details
    • Program

    Agribusiness Seminar

    presents many challenges but also new possibilities for firms that can embrace innovation, develop new strategies, deliver value, and build resilience. For more than 60 years, business leaders from around the world have gathered for the... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture