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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
International Trade Finance Practices Authors: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction-level data from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
securing specimens from a new set of actors in the commerce in cadavers. These actors are legal entrepreneurial ventures that have been operating for more than a decade in the United States; they cater to domestic users and international ones alike. (The procurement of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
part of Gazprom's long-term strategy is "to build up its LNG capacity so it can export to regions it cannot reach by pipeline." Despite these moves, Abdelal downplays fears of Russian expansionism. "Energy can be a tool for... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
global economy. Bad government can only lead to less competitive businesses. To be competitive, countries need to offer businesses sound fiscal and monetary policies, secure property rights, high savings and investment, an absence of corruption, and View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
mercantilist model of government-managed trade. Japan's version of mercantilism primarily used its own banking system, as well as export revenues themselves, to generate the needed capital (in contrast to making heavy use of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
At the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina was one of the great economic powers in the world—capitalizing on exports of beef and wheat to be a leader in the first wave of globalization. Neighboring Chile was poised for tremendous... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
states to collect export taxes to finance expenditures, rendered states with higher windfall tax revenues from the export of commodities to spend more on education per capita. Second, we prove that colonial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
economies "are successful economies and export powerhouses." What is interesting, according to the data he presented, is that Hong Kong and Taiwan did not rely on labor-intensive FDI to develop their View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
to industry—which can weaken wage growth compared with the classic tiger economy example. This is an interesting dynamic we see in China today. Q: The export growth that technology may engender is only one prong of the mechanism that... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Products German craftsmanship and quality are famous, and according to Fear, German companies generally compete as niche producers, particularly those that manufacture high-quality goods that demand a premium price. In 2004-2005 Germany became the number-one View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
Jiabao last year during a similar visit. But $19 billion is hardly anything to write home about, even if one were to discount the fact that much of what India exports to China is low-value-added commodities (notably iron ore). I asked... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
transactions are a way of life. The case illustrates a classic dilemma: should organizations conform to the environment they're in, or should they export their ethical standards to other lands? In Paine's view, framing the issue as... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
discussing such things as the end of cheap oil, the exportation of jobs, work-life issues, the importance of attitude versus skills in work, marketing productivity, "judo management," the innovator's dilemma, the accountability... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
its neighboring countries. Now take a country like South Africa where the domestic corporate scene is actually quite developed and creative, exporting ideas, exporting managers to the multinationals who work... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
identified by KT’s team include the Internet of Things (including connected cars and smart city/homes), media, health, energy, and security and surveillance, which might provide some quick wins both in terms of revenues and market lead. Should KT develop solutions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
make a global decisions supports, a more global perspective in managing supply chains." Globalization of Retailing A study of three global retailers—Carrefour,Wal-Mart, and Ahold—sheds light on the differences between how American and European companies View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil; it is also the world's largest exporter of ethanol for vehicle fuels. Rubens Ometto, Cosan's CEO, has staked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne