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  • March 2021 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) turned seventy-years-old and became the longest active authoritarian regime in recent history. By then, China was the world’s second largest economy by GDP (after the United States), and a high-technology industrial... View Details
Keywords: Party-state; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Society; International Relations; China
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
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  • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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  • 21 Dec 2020
  • News

Space Economics: Hunting Stags in Space

  • 29 Sep 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven
  • August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

NerveWire, Inc.

By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Behavior; Internet; Newton
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

    sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 19 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

    pursue economic development, and rewarding officials on that basis, the country as a whole has been transformed into an entrepreneurial and industrial powerhouse. Case in point: China's economy enjoyed a sustained growth rate of 10... View Details
    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing
    • 05 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
    • July 2002 (Revised February 2003)
    • Case

    Fresh Start? Peru's Legacy of Debt and Default (A)

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Lisa Lewis
    Considers the situation facing Alberto Fujimori as he takes office in 1990. Pays particular attention to Peru's long history of international borrowing, default, and renegotiation. This history suggests that the costs imposed by foreigners on Peru when it failed to... View Details
    Keywords: History; International Finance; Sovereign Finance; Economy; Borrowing and Debt; Peru
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      George C. Lodge

      Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

      • 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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      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Business Groups in Historical Perspectives

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
      Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Alliances; Groups and Teams; Competitive Advantage; Great Britain
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      • December 2015 (Revised September 2016)
      • Supplement

      ANA (B)

      By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
      All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan
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      • April 1992 (Revised April 1997)
      • Case

      Reconstruction of Zambia

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor
      Examines the causes of decline--economic, social, and political--of the Zambian economy since 1974. It takes place at the time of the election of Frederick Chiluba, in October 1991. Examines the problems of economic development in Africa, and especially, of structural... View Details
      Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Borrowing and Debt; International Finance; Political Elections; Africa; Zambia
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      • September 2003 (Revised May 2004)
      • Case

      New Partnership for Africa's Development, The

      By: Laura Alfaro, Debora L. Spar and Cate Reavis
      In a world context of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund and their interaction with developing countries, this case looks at an African development initiative to address its own problems: The New Economic... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; International Finance; Investment; Poverty; Africa
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      • 12 Nov 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Facing the New World Order

      partnership with Harvard University, will be publishing a special regional report on this transitional economy and on Latin America later this year, and also a report on IT. Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • Web

      The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      to retain customers. Actually, entry brings new capacity and pressure on prices and costs. The threat of entry, therefore, puts a cap on the profit potential of an industry. This threat depends on the size of a series of barriers to entry, including View Details
      • January – February 2011
      • Article

      Creating Shared Value

      By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
      The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Trust; Human Needs; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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