Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2020
News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

HBS professor Rafael Di Tella says he saw firsthand the downside of populism and the economic hardships of Peronism while growing up in Argentina. The country—and Latin America more generally—has a tradition of populist politics, he... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2017
News

The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum

business. “Being able to apply a variety of skills to a broad scope of challenges felt like a dam breaking open,” says Hammer, now president and CEO of Theralogix, a nutritional supplement company he cofounded in 2002. But Hammer’s love... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

that is publicly traded in Spain and controlled by the Entrecanales family. In 2006, the company joined the highly politicized cross-border takeover battle for Spain's largest electric utility, Endesa, by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
News

Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

examines the many strategic choices Goldwind faced as it established its first major overseas subsidiary in Chicago: building a local team around a U.S. CEO, bridging cross-cultural differences among management, overcoming regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

have in manufacturing). Joan, while commenting that “the issue is multi-dimensional and complex,” observed that: “Things seem to be changing faster than we as humans can adapt ” Paul injected some humor into... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

door to his studio, Yoga by Donation, is never locked. Students slide dollar bills or, occasionally, tens and twenties into a black safe on an unattended reception desk before slipping off their shoes and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

07 Dec 2011
News

A Solution for the Euro Crisis

Keywords: Senior Lecturer Dante Roscini; EU; the euro; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

17 Dec 2015
News

Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia

Not long after arriving in Kuala Lumpur in January 2015, Jennifer Henderson (MBA 2016) realized that her perception of what it would be like to work with a company there differed from the reality. Although she had read articles and cases... View Details

11 Jun 2012
News

Starting Up in Brazil

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2013
News

Alumni Books

Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye: How to Get beyond the One Word That Stands between You and Success by Joe Azelby and Bob Azelby (MBA 1997) (HarperBusiness) The Azelbys want to help professionals become aware of the... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

cases are made of, a fact not lost on professors Gerardo Lozano and Carlos Romero at Mexico's Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE). Rather than focus on cross-cultural... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

interpersonal challenges of cross-cultural interaction and the management and organizational implications for companies operating in differing cultural contexts. Given the... View Details

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

Dow, General Motors, Nestlé, and Petrobras) and smaller entrepreneurial firms (such as the U.K.'s AIFS and China's BabyCare) undertake critical financing, investment, risk... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

March 2020
Case

Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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