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- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
Kirby. "Why does the state dominate the wine industry? Because it is ludicrously profitable. Institutionally, you have these bottlenecks." Oftentimes it is not the central government that is the biggest problem, but local and regional... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping point for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
diversified conglomerate in Thailand and expanded the business in Southeast Asia and China. While growing the business, he and his brothers created a holding company to both maintain and separate the interests of the family from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
firms often build bridges across borders in more than one of these ways at a time, it is often possible—and useful—to specify the cross-border function that is, in economic terms, central over long periods to their strategies for adding... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
ability to generate profit. There is no contradiction between social impact and good profitability; in fact, profitability is central to that social impact." Eliminating, or even alleviating, global poverty is an enormous task. About... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
relationships. Q: From your research, what are some of the key differences between Chinese and American managers' professional networks? A: The central finding from my research is that affect- and cognition-based trust are more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
and Latin America. Why Azmi? “India has the world’s largest cinema industry, and it exercises an enormous cultural impact within the country,” says Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History. “Shabana Azmi has long been a View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
money service, Oi Paggo, but ultimately decided to re-launch the service under a different model. Regulations that are too strict can stifle innovation. In Sri Lanka, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) initially required all mobile... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Business School Note 609-045 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609045 Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997–1998 (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 709-004 What... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
firm-wide diversification; in contrast, a high net value of within-firm coordination is correlated with centralization. Variation across establishments within firms is widespread: most firms are neither fully centralized nor fully... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
investments. Lagace: How did you carry out this study over a several-thousand-mile highway network? Nanda: As Bill mentioned, the Indian government collects comprehensive, detailed microdata. One of the great datasets they maintain is in the Reserve Bank of India, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
sustains our mission.” “At no point in my life could I have guessed what I’d be doing next,” says John H. McArthur (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), who was Dean of the School from 1980 through 1995. In his career, McArthur also served as a trustee in bankruptcy of Penn View Details
- July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed
This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details
Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yazeed Al-Rashed. "Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil." Harvard Business School Case 321-003, July 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 2020
- Book
Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire from the nineteenth century until the present. It places the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Corruption; Business History; Ethics; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; Middle East; Central Asia; Turkey
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
level of sustainable growth. The Report has been developed by Vietnam's Central Institute for Economic Management and the Singapore-based Asia Competitiveness Institute upon the request of Deputy Prime... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be outer directed. Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne