Managing Global Expansion - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

thought was that globalization was making the world so similar that [location] didn't matter," says Christopher Marquis, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the paper with András Tilcsik (HBS PhDOB '12),... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2015
News

The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events

Recent HBS Campaign Regional Events Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) greeted fellow alumni during the reception at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo. Margie Yang (MBA 1976) spoke during the evening’s program at The Peninsula Shanghai. Susan and Scott Hawkins (MBA 1982) shared a laugh... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2010
News

Analyze This

sole HBS graduates in the countries where they live. Using the mailing list as his guide, Emmons found that 22 countries and territories receive just one copy of the Bulletin, ranging from Armenia to Uzbekistan. He managed to track down... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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Chao Zeng

to become a general manager for a global business; all the learning at HBS is linked to that goal in three ways. First, the case method allows us to learn from real people and actual practices – I like to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Financial Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard of in a sector in which the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

expansion of Chinese firms. Key issues include: The nature of China’s political, economic, and of its regional markets The central role of politics in business: How well do you know your Party Secretary? The interconnectedness of View Details

November 2019
Case

Scaling at Chief

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley and Katherine Chen

Chief is a New York-based peer network that provides mentorship, support, networking opportunities, and a sense of community to women executives. Co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan launched the company in January 2019, and just two months later, Chief has... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Expansion; Growth Management; Customer Satisfaction; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)

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01 Mar 2003
News

Brazil Banks on Experience

Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details

Keywords: Finance

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

collaborator John U. Farley have studied the impact of corporate culture and national culture on global marketing strategy. A few years ago they looked at the role played by these key organizational factors (innovation, market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 1997
Case

Odwalla, Inc.

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay

Odwalla suffered one of the worst food safety crises in history and not only survived but continued to grow. Now they need to decide how the crisis affected their business and how to expand their business. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Crisis Management; Safety; Expansion; System Shocks; Food and Beverage Industry

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Find at Harvard

22 Sep 2015
News

On a Mission to Have an Impact

After founding the online cosmetics service Eve.com, Varsha Rao (MBA 1995) is now heading global operations for Airbnb, helping customers of this mission-driven company gain richer travel experiences by connecting them more closely to the... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

this work,” says Roberts, “and nine out of ten will describe turning over logs and discovering things when they were little.” Four decades later, he’s still discovering nature, but on a global scale. Since his appointment in February 2005... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

Muhammad Musa

Keywords: Development; Microfinance

Ratan Naval Tata

Keywords: Diversified

01 Mar 2016
News

Maiden Voyage

More than 80 countries have national space programs, spending a collective $64.5 billion in 2014, according to Euroconsult, a global consulting firm specializing in space markets. Approximately a dozen countries—if you count the 22... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Space Research and Technology; Government