Publications

May 2000 (Revised July 2000)
Case

World Trade Organization, The: After the Seattle Protests

Representatives of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Seattle to plan the next round of trade negotiations, only to face protestors and fail to reach agreement on an agenda. This case discusses the evolution of the WTO, its rules, and some of the controversy... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agreements and Arrangements; Failure; Northwestern United States

February 1986
Supplement

Kedaung Industrial Ltd., Video

Presents an interview with the Indonesian partner of Corning Glass Works' investment in Indonesia. The first part of the interview sets out the original decisions made by the partners. It serves to introduce the partners to the class and to help them decide whether to... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Decisions; Investment; Consumer Products Industry; Indonesia

1975
Book

The Choice of Technology in Developing Countries: Some Cautionary Tales

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Technology

1991
Manual

Teaching Manual for Manager in the International Economy

Keywords: Global Strategy

1969
Report

Some Proposals for Ghana's Industrialization Policies

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Policy; Ghana

June 1988
Case

Decontrol of Fertilizer Prices in Pakistan

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Price; Pakistan

March – April 1975
Article

Social Cost/Benefit Analysis for MNC's

Keywords: Cost; Society

January–February 1974
Article

Don't Overautomate Your Foreign Plant

1985
Article

Small Scale Manufacturing as a Competitive Advantage

Keywords: Production

October 1987
Article

Water, Bread, and Meat: Payment for Work in the Atacama Desert

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; South America

May/June 1989
Article

Supping with the Devil: Another Interpretation

January 1987
Background Note

Indonesia: Choice of Industrialization Strategy

June 1978
Article

How Foreign Businesses Decide to Invest in Massachusetts

Keywords: Business Ventures; Investment; Massachusetts

1999
Other Unpublished Work

Private Investment in Infrastructure: Managing Non-commercial Risk

Keywords: Risk Management; Investment; Infrastructure

March 2021
Teaching Note

State of Charge: The Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

September 2020
Case

Minerva 2010: Turbulent Times

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2010, amid a flurry of new discoveries, Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), raised $6.6 million to test her new cancer drugs in mice. It had been more than 6 years since she had announced that she and her small team at... View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology; Research; Product Development; Commercialization; Strategy

September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
Case

GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In June 2020, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) presented its report to the California Energy Commission indicating that its proof of concept project to demonstrate its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™, had been a success. While conventional... View Details

Keywords: Geothermal Electricity; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions

July 2020 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Oxygen Esports

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On May 4, 2020, a press release from Boston, Massachusetts, announced the launch of Oxygen Esports (Oxygen), a new organization that hoped to dominate the rising esports scene in New England. Oxygen was created from a merger between Helix eSports (Helix), an owner and... View Details

Keywords: Esports; Sports; Online Technology; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy