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- 18 Jul 2017
- News
Political Roundtable: Russia, Polls, Health Care & Lawyers Gone Wild
- Research Summary
International Competitiveness in High Technology and Science Based Sectors
By: Gary P. Pisano
This research project examines shifts in competitive capabilities of companies and countries in high technology and science based businesses. It is particularly concerned with the potential loss of such capabilities in various industrial sectors in the... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- News
Could the crisis of leadership spark a new political party?
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Is It Safe for CEOs to Voice Strong Political Opinions?
- 2015
- Published Proceedings
Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit and Sarah Wilson
What is the role of the academic scholar within the discussions of the global challenges that are relevant to society, such as sustainability, health care, gun control, fiscal policy, and international affairs? How do scholars engage in a world in which knowledge is... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J., Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit, and Sarah Wilson, eds. Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015. Michigan Publishing Services, 2015. Electronic.
- Web
Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
strategic environment for transnational business. These informal rules and bargains include the political coalitions that sustain globalization and the dynamics of international business in different... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
- 2010
- Article
International Trade and National Security in Historical Perspective
Reinert, Sophus A. "International Trade and National Security in Historical Perspective." On Track 15, no. 2 (2010): 12–15.
- March 2016 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa's democracy persists, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition — the African National Congress, the labor unions, and the Communist Party — still controls the political system but with diminishing economic... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Development; Productivity; Labor; Labor Unions; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Economic Growth; Performance Productivity; Economy; Social Issues; South Africa
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?" Harvard Business School Case 716-069, March 2016. (Revised September 2021.)
- 2002
- Chapter
Contributions of Applied Systems Analysis to International Negotiation
By: Howard Raiffa
- 29 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- June 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel J. Isenberg and Ant Bozkaya
Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home countries to start businesses with global technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict and Resolution; Turkey
Kerr, William R., Daniel J. Isenberg, and Ant Bozkaya. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 807-175, June 2007. (Revised June 2011.) (This case replaces "Bundling the Contracts: TA-Energy", Harvard Business School Case 807-075, by Kerr and Bozkaya.)
- June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa
By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton
This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa
Jones, Geoffrey, and Elliot R. Benton. "Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 313-148, June 2013. (Revised November 2016.)
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in... View Details
- 2007
- Book
How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy
Vietor, Richard H. K. How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
- September 2010
- Supplement
Sherritt Goes to Cuba (B): Dealing with Political Risk Under Raul Castro
By: Aldo Musacchio and Jonathan Schlefer
Musacchio, Aldo, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Sherritt Goes to Cuba (B): Dealing with Political Risk Under Raul Castro." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-002, September 2010.
- September 2004
- Article
Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows
By: M. A. Desai, Devesh Kapur and John McHale
Desai, M. A., Devesh Kapur, and John McHale. "Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows." International Tax and Public Finance 11, no. 5 (September 2004): 663–693.
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy
By: Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper investigates the economic consequences of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned immigration from China. The Act reduced the number of Chinese workers of all skill levels living in the United States. It also reduced the labor supply and the quality of... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Productivity; Economic Development; Business History; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business and Government Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation; Immigration; United States
Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, August 2022. (Revised September 2024. Featured in Bloomberg, at Hoover Institute, VoxEU, NBER Digest, NPR, Forbes, The New Yorker, HBS Working Knowledge, Cato Institute, and America: A History (podcast), quoted here.)