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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
through foreclosure. (Dlodlo plans to export this bipartite model to Africa to help prevent families there from suffering the fate that befell her own family after her father died.) From the outset, Dlodlo was committed to pursuing a... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
red stigma that workers—overwhelmingly women, who are considered more skilled at the delicate task—separate from the yellow “style.” The stigma are then dried. To market Traditional path: Historically, Afghan saffron has been exported to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Gaining Currency
Kim Reynolds (MBA ’79), the weakness of the dollar is a good thing: It makes Markel’s products — insulated wire and tubing for cars — attractive to buyers from Europe where locally manufactured goods have grown pricey due to the euro’s strength. The weaker dollar has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
messier. Countries like Russia, Korea, Brazil, and Japan are major producers of steel. They are going to retaliate, and the United States is a major exporter to those countries,” she said, adding that free trade has worked particularly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
solution to the U.S.-China trade deficit lay in an expansion of U.S. exports, rather than restrictions on the Chinese side. He noted that in recent years, U.S. exports to China have increased by a greater percentage than U.S. View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Specialty Coffee Industry,” coauthored by HBS assistant professor Peter Hecht. Tanzania has the climate and altitude to produce specialty coffee that commands premium prices in the world market. Yet, income from coffee exports has... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
1980s, a time when Asian nations began integrating among themselves through trade and investment. In her current role as director-general of Japan’s Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, Munakata’s portfolio includes development assistance, trade insurance, and View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
difficult to reestablish. Still, BCG’s Sirkin is sanguine about U.S. manufacturing. He advises executives considering a new factory in China to export goods to America to carefully consider total costs. “They’re increasingly likely to get... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
we headed to Stellenbosch, the capital of South Africa’s wine region. We delighted in an elegant French-style picnic at the Boschendal wine estate, coordinated by Julian Coulter (MBA ’03), export sales and marketing manager. In addition,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Governor’s Admission
estimate that, despite its modest size, Lynch’s Granite State exports more than $2 billion annually in goods and services. Lynch, who was inaugurated in 2005, entered politics after resuscitating national furniture-maker Knoll, Inc.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in Taiwan, for example, can then be produced cheaply in the... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
exported organic snack brands. In the hour-long event, Harvard University President Larry Bacow congratulated the finalists and recognized their role in inspiring change. “Thank you for transforming flashes of inspiration and ingenuity... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
it into a far more effective organization, championing such causes as debt relief for poor nations and the opening of rich countries’ markets to exports from developing nations. For him and his wife, Elaine, the service was “the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
catalyst for growth in the neighboring countries, in much the same role as Japan played in Asia. Such collaborative activity across borders is common in other regions, but until recently has been all but absent in the Middle East. Even now, less than 8 percent of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
enterprises have long held a special place in society, and none more so than Mitsubishi. Its origin goes back to the 1870s, when three sailing ships transported raw materials to Japanese manufacturers and carried exports to markets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
HBS team that found that overseas investment by American companies benefited the U.S. economy by increasing exports and creating higher-paying jobs in this country. His testimony on Capitol Hill helped defeat bills aimed at restricting... View Details