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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Tella, and Lucas Llach Abstract—This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
should be developing a half-dozen or more leaders who could be long-term CEO candidates. The ideal future CEO should be at least 10 years from the company’s typical retirement age, so they have sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Profile
Jay Khil
nothing to do with China being the next business leader. It started because I liked Chinese music and pop stars. And if you want to learn the language, it’s best to go to the country itself.” With a [comparable?] appetite for the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
family business field is very international now, too. In most Western countries you now find at least a few people per country very engaged in family business research and... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- November 2008
- Teaching Note
Crossing Borders: MTC's Journey through Africa (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching Note for [708477]. View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Japan was most competitive internationally — such as cars, video products, and robotics — government played a relatively minor role. By contrast, the country was least competitive in industries such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
high-tech giant Rakuten’s globalization process for five straight years following an English mandate for thousands of its Japanese employees. “We traveled to eight countries with tremendous assistance from the HBS global research... View Details
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Teaching Note for 708486. View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
whether companies here will continue to be competitive in developing flat-panel display innovations. So exporting manufacturing ultimately drains away American innovation? Pisano: Absolutely. That’s the heart of our argument. That’s what... View Details
- Fast Answer
Africa: research, news, analysis
lifestyles and the name of country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging market... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
PublicationsA History of Irish Economic Thought Authors:Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, and John Turner, eds. Publication:London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
in developing countries where laying fiber just doesn’t make sense, although there are real questions about cost and sustainability. Apart from the hard-core mobile gamers, though, what will the average... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon purchasing a home abutting the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
London, and Tokyo, but in the emerging markets of India, China, and Brazil as well. "I think many companies are realizing that their track record of going outside their home country isn't great, because, to be completely honest, not... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
possible in LEAD, those people-related issues and challenges that any good general manager should understand to be effective. The term human capital implies that people have the capacity to drive organizational performance. The basic premise of this course is that how... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
coverage of individual countries in both the industrialized and the developing world. In recent decades, the Bulletin's focus on international developments has intensified as... View Details