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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
realm of politics and history, the disconnect between what students have to learn in order to graduate, and what they know to be true, grows greater every day. This is why, in 2012, when students in Hong Kong were faced with the prospect... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s unfamiliar conditions hamper your ability to reach decisions? In any new situation, it’s very important to have confidence in your judgments. So from the outset, you have to be curious and open and ask a lot of questions in order... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
order to build and grow teams that they understand and can help motivate over time to deliver.” Now back in Dearborn, Michigan, Fields works with what’s become an emerging and increasingly high-profile issue for View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
people to get involved in global issues. The pair have coauthored three other books: China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power; Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia; and the 2009 bestseller, Half the Sky:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
educational advancement and the pursuit of knowledge, we share your concerns about the executive order on immigration, and we're here to support you. Sincerely, Harvard Global Support Services View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
who she was—and maybe who she wanted to be. Falik never did find that outlet, which inspired her to build it herself. She spent her two years at HBS narrowing the vision and the model of an organization that she felt could address this unmet need. The result? View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
cases escalate, tariffs placed on Chinese exports by former President Trump. This move is emblematic of a global turn toward protectionism and trade restrictions in the last decade. Businesses have taken diverse approaches in adapting to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
regional and global markets, and, most important, enhance their productivity. All this can be done far more efficiently in the region than with far-off partners. Whole new industries can grow up in these countries, and existing industries... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
The popular press focuses on the colorful: the globally known swamis; the ash covered monks; the business people and penniless people together in the Ganga; the elephants and orange robes and crazy hair and the blend of true believers and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Mandela in Triumph at Harvard
its June graduation ceremonies. Mandela, 80, an invited keynote speaker at the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town, delighted 25,000 people in Harvard's Tercentenary Theater with his regal bearing, broad smile, and warm sense of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
extensively with each other. That they don't, at least not yet, is an anomaly. The U.s.-mexico Example Consider the U.S.-Mexico bilateral trade as an example, an order of magnitude bigger than China-India bilateral trade. Indeed, Mexico... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
capability in order to preserve proprietary information (Kulkarni). Doherty was concerned that organizations might extend their boundaries without a clear strategy. He offered a "2x2" rule-of-thumb strategy for doing this based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
detailed in a firm's patents. However, since this information is generally available to the public, firms often deliberately withhold information from the firm's patents, in the United States and in the foreign country, in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
pushing the envelope on offering products for an emerging market, the need to go in and set up a business or acquire your own company in order to have exposure to this area is lessened. What many firms or asset managers who want exposure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details