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Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Competitiveness & Economic Development Why are some nations or regions more prosperous than others? What conditions enable View Details

March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
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Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

How can a multinational firm analyze and manage currency risks that arise from competitive exposures? General Motors has a substantial competitive exposure to the Japanese yen. Although the risks GM faces from the depreciating yen are widely acknowledged, the company's... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Competition; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; International Finance; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry

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MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Microeconomics of Competitiveness In 2002, the Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) course was created by Professor Michael Porter and colleagues at the... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative

TOKYO VISIT: Dean Clark and wife, Sue, with Masako Egawa (MBA '86), Japan Research Office executive director, and University of Tokyo professor Takahiro Fujimoto (DBA '89). Photo Courtesy Japan Research Office The School’s six-year-old View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

31 Aug 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks & Patrick Kalaher

August 2017 (Revised September 2022)
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Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision

By: Willy Shih

In today's global economy, what are the factors that go into production location choice? This case is set in the world's second largest automotive glass producer as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chains; Globalization Of Supply Chain; Manufacturing Footprint; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Strategy; Global Strategy; Supply Chain; Globalization; Supply Chain Management; Production; Logistics; Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; China

March 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Module Note

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

This module note presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE). The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Macroeconomics

01 May 2005
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Business Responses to Climate Change: Identifying Emergent Strategies

Keywords: Ans Kolk, Jonatan Pinkse

24 Apr 2014
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Leading by example at a global company

Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993), CEO of Rakuten, talks about leading a global company and the competitive advantages of speaking English. (Published April 2014) View Details

2017
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The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States

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06 Oct 2016
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The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism

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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM... View Details

February 2021
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HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)

By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh

July 2017 was supposed to be a triumphant month for HNA Group. The latest Fortune Global 500 list showed the company had again skyrocketed in its ranking to no. 170, an improvement of over 200 positions from the year prior. Yet earlier that same July, the mysterious... View Details

Keywords: Conglomerate; Airline Industry; Coronavirus; Financial Risk; Debt; Bankruptcy; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Condition; Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry; China

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Can Japanese Companies Survive in Global Competition?

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Competition; Japan

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM... View Details

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Essential Guide to Competition & Strategy by Joan Magretta 2006 Harvard Business School Press Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results by Michael Porter & Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg Health Care Solving the View Details

February 2002 (Revised May 2006)
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Volvo Trucks (C): Closing Volvo Global Trucks

By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Truck Transportation; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Europe