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  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018

HBX Economics for Managers

Gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy, whether you are an aspiring marketing professional, strategy consultant, or entrepreneur, preparing for an MBA, or just looking to contribute more to business decision making. Program Dates: October... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

upending longstanding principles of free trade established when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Today, multinational firms must adapt, both in terms of trade and doing business within China itself. In fact, some experts... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products

    Stanley C. Gault

    Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient multinational corporation. He embarked on... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Economics for Managers

    Gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy, whether you are an aspiring marketing professional, strategy consultant, or entrepreneur, preparing for an MBA, or just looking to contribute more to business decision making. Program Dates: January... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2008
    • News

    America the Difficult

    their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can’t. In effect, these distorted environments burden local firms, create opportunities for institutional arbitrage for View Details
    Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
    • 29 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

    manufacturers benefited. Larger homes with bigger refrigerators can absorb more inventory. Flat birth rates in developed economies have put pressure on durable consumer-goods companies desperate for top-line growth. Product quality... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • 08 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

    companies grappling with the familiar (yet complex) questions that confront any organization trying to do business across borders. According to Collis, every strategic choice that multinationals face falls into one of the following four... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna

      Theodore G. Montague

      Montague transformed Borden from a struggling dairy products-centered business into a diversified multinational consumer goods provider. Looking for a way to lessen Borden’s reliance on government intervention, Montague pursued selective... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • 14 Oct 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: October 14

      variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact that states cannot produce any commodity they want) and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Abe Plough

        In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a View Details
        Keywords: Healthcare
        • 17 Jul 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: July 17

        conquering Paris or New York. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/the-growth-opportunity-that-lies-next-door/ar/   Working PapersSelection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 01 Apr 1999
        • News

        Short Takes

        tolerate human rights abuses, Spar advocates that multinationals and human rights are not such strange bedfellows as once thought. Reebok, for instance, created a new production facility in Pakistan and... View Details
        Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
        • 30 May 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

        diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy. View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 14 Oct 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: October 14

        are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 01 Sep 2003
        • News

        Globalization Revisited

        preferences for such programming over alien, standardized content often manifest themselves. “There are many other dynamics that can also undercut the viability of globally standardized products over time,” Ghemawat said. He added that... View Details
        Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
        • September 1997 (Revised September 1997)
        • Case

        Koc Holding: Arcelik White Goods

        By: John A. Quelch
        Management is considering its options for future international expansion. Koc is the dominant supplier of white goods (kitchen appliances) in Turkey and has been increasing its export efforts. As lower import tariffs invite foreign competitors to enter Turkey, Koc must... View Details
        Keywords: Expansion; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey
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        • 16 Jun 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

        Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
        Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
        • 06 Jun 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

        forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 11 Jul 2006
        • First Look

        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
        • Fast Answer

        Managing Global Operations

        products and industries worldwide from Euromonitor International. Useful for understanding consumer lifestyles.   Business Source Complete Articles and examples from academic and industry publications on topics in this category, such... View Details