Internationalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally with local-currency-denominated debt. We find that, as local-currency-bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Sep 2011
News

HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

legacy. Similarly, the internationalization of the Harvard Business School curriculum didn’t just happen. Kim Clark, when he was Dean, introduced the global research centers, which were a very distinctive way that we decided to pursue... View Details

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

10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

research agenda will move away from such parochialism towards exploring key issues in an internationally comparative framework. Within this context, I would like to see attention move beyond a strong emphasis on the top-level strategy of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2025
News

Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

incredibly heartening to receive many offers of help, including from colleagues at internationally based business schools that HBS and its faculty helped found many decades ago. I am optimistic that we will find a way forward, as we have... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

internationally but from nonprofits and the public sector, as well as applicants with less work experience. Does that present new challenges for financial aid? We need to guarantee that we always can bring the very best students to the... View Details

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

focused mainly on the challenges of starting a company in a specific country—such as Argentina or Thailand—instead of launching internationally from the get-go, as many entrepreneurs do today. Kerr says he wanted LGV to "go straight... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

including the SAGE Handbook of Prejudice and The Social Psychology of Gender . Margaret Morganroth Gullette Margaret Morganroth Gullette is a cultural critic and prize-winning writer of nonfiction, an internationally known age critic,... View Details

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

over 700 screens and dubbed it in three regional languages. Then, when the company introduced My Name is Khan, it put both money and power behind the release. "It's going to be released in a way no Hindi film has been released View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

and business. My plan is to compare internationally the legal and regulatory limits countries put on the ability to commercialize health information and what this tells us about the prospects for global health-care businesses. I have been... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

global economy. From the beginning, the significance of the theory and research being developed by the School was evident. Communicating the leading business issues of the day began with the publication of the first Harvard Business Review in 1922. Today, millions of... View Details

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

internationalism. We conducted two studies to test whether social class is related positively to internationalism (the building social class hypothesis) or negatively to internationalism (the restricting... View Details

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 210-001 Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-006 Israel at 70: Is It Possible to (re)Brand a Country? In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

disclosure and changing their valuations of firms accordingly. 4. There exists considerable variation internationally on the tax treatment of stock options. In particular, some countries, such as Canada, do not allow any tax deduction for... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of quality. French wines succeed internationally because they enjoy domestic market regulations that promote demand for quality... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

public speaking. Many self-help books, a very popular book category in the United States, make use of sales techniques. Q: What are the latest research trends in this area? A: I think there are two trends. Some people are, as I mentioned, trying to do View Details