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  • 2006
  • Article

The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'

By: G. Jones
This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Ownership; International Finance; Economic Systems; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Geographic Location; Nationality; Boundaries; Global Strategy
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  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

IFC started, more than 300 students have conducted volunteer work in the area (with small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and local towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival.... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2004
  • Other Presentation

Global Competitiveness Report 2004-05: Deutschlands Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Germany
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  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

With democracy retreating worldwide, businesses with global aspirations increasingly face the challenge of setting up shop in geographies where autocrats rule. In doing so, they often lose the comforting assurances of democratic areas... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2019
  • News

A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

I realized this was something I was passionate about and that, up until then, I had been influenced by other people’s expectations.” This insight led to a decades-long interest in global business for Barry, president and CEO of the... View Details
  • September 2009 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

Endeavor: Creating a Global Movement for High-Impact Entrepreneurship

By: William A. Sahlman
This case describes a critical inflection point in the growth of an international development "mentor capitalist" nonprofit, Endeavor. As Endeavor aims to scale its high-impact entrepreneurship model globally, founder Linda Rottenberg must determine what success looks... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Jordan
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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Clusters, Cluster Policy, and Swedish Competitiveness in the Global Economy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Proximity enables firms to take advantage of knowledge spill-overs and exploit supplier demand linkages with other entities engaged in related activities. Cluster strength thus seems to be one of the important determinants of prosperity differences across geographies.... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Sweden
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  • 4 Dec 2002
  • Other Presentation

Can Japan Compete? New Findings from the Global Competitiveness Report 2002

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Japan
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  • 13 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008
  • Conference Presentation

Future of Market Capitalism: Global Growth

By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Economic Systems; Markets; Global Range; Growth and Development
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

By: Rawi Abdelal
Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the... View Details
Keywords: Centrism; Populism; Globalization; History; Balance and Stability; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Learning
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  • 25 Aug 2015
  • News

What To Expect From The Economic Deceleration In China

  • 2005
  • Casebook

Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy

By: Rafael Di Tella, Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economics
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

One need only look as far as the bookshelf to see the optimism attached to China's ascension as a world economic and political power. Titles like The Dragon Awakes; The Rise of China; and When China Rules the World predict an inevitable,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Oct 2015
  • Other Presentation

Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda (Video)

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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  • February 1992 (Revised April 1995)
  • Case

Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
Top officials at Pfizer are assessing their strategy for improving protection of Pfizer's patents around the world. The outcome of the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations is uncertain, and it is not clear whether an acceptable intellectual property protection... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Trade; Policy; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Japan; Europe
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  • 11 Jun 2008
  • Other Presentation

Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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  • February 2012 (Revised March 2012)
  • Module Note

Drivers of Productivity and Global Competitiveness

By: Diego Comin
Keywords: Trade; Performance Productivity; Global Range
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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  • 05 Oct 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

How the Clean Network Changed the Future of Global Technology Competition

Keywords: Re: Meg Rithmire
  • January 2001
  • Case

Merck Global Health Initiatives (B): Botswana

By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and James Weber
The case series focuses on Merck's drug donation program and then raises new issues facing management about what to do about HIV/AIDS in Africa given the company's development of a new therapy. Describes collaboration among many parties including the Gates Foundation,... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Private Sector; Public Sector; Alliances; Problems and Challenges; Africa; Botswana
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