Mergers Impact On International Economies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Nigeria, saw how Ebola ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016, which prompted her to think about how she could have an impact in Africa when macro shocks occurred. The crisis led her to HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School—the first steps... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

2005) took alumni questions on the energy transition, adoption strategies, and the practical steps to a fossil fuel–free future. Nigeria is the sixth-largest producer of fossil fuel in the world, and its national View Details

Fast Answer

Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">International Directory of Company Histories Histories include company development and background; merger and acquisition history; View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

scale and scope economies may be limited, and that the merger premiums have become quite high. Moreover, we know that some large distilled spirits companies, who entered the wine market quite aggressively,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

resource pools, increased corporate operational dependence on IT, and enhanced application opportunities have combined to drive this topic much higher on many companies' agendas. Different companies are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51237 2016 The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

firms with global interests—one that centers around the impact that these phenomena may have on such things as the potential benefits and costs of doing business abroad? Specifically, will questions... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making markets. For 25 years, he has... View Details

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

Bruce Mazlish, two prominent historians, as a "new kind of Leviathan," which had "an impact on almost every sphere of modern life from policymaking on the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

03 Mar 2014
News

A Life Transformed

dependent on a meager income from the land. Our school was a seven-kilometer walk in each direction. With little food, it was difficult to have the energy to walk that distance every day. During the monsoon floods, we wore a towel-like... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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 View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

national governments and international institutions would prove too weak to deal with these forces. On the positive side, many of the leaders we spoke with viewed business as part of the solution: Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

28 May 2019
News

Ask the Expert: In Security

credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

leverage is to sell assets. If asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in contagion. We propose a simple framework that accounts... View Details