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Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

rituals into various categories: Date or leisure activity: This was the most common type of ritual, with 63 percent of respondents engaging in them. Study participants reported things like: "Every Friday night we make popcorn and watch a movie together."" Or, "We drink... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details

03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010

a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption. In this paper, economic historians Niall Ferguson of HBS and Moritz Schularick of Freie Universität Berlin consider the problem of global... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

reading Toxic Politics by Yanzhong Huang, which is subtitled China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State. To feel better about what can be done about global warming, I recommend The Hidden Life of Trees by... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

for company stock, they will nonetheless receive more value than they would have had the business been shut down. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School)... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

producing vacuum pumps and systems. Its Chinese team was the first to live through the effects of the new pandemic and the restrictions imposed by the government. Learning from its subsidiary in China gave the company tremendous... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

companies focus on winning now. These are often difficult lessons for veteran leaders to heed. For many leaders, going on offense when they are in the depth of a crisis is most counter-intuitive, yet it is the winning strategy. Like the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

opportunity or bubble] will happen at the national level at once is a big question mark." Warren Ching comments, "The Chinese government wants nothing but [to save] face. They will not allow this kind of economic meltdown."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2007
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How Brand China Can Succeed

autobiographies in 3 manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art." China has a long and proud history and a rich culture. In deeds, today's Chinese businesspeople and government officials... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

25 Mar 2014
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China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

enormous upheaval in the Communist Revolution that firmly established the Chinese Communist Party in charge of all things political and economic. If China is to live up to its promise, argues the new book Can China Lead?: Reaching the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

China to buy more American goods—gets the publicity. But it’s likely to have less long-term impact than if China would agree to relax Chinese ownership requirements on American firms desiring to do business in that country through... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Party in Massachusetts. 1860s and 1870s: Opposition to Chinese immigrants in the US culminated in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned the entry and the re-entry of View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

23 Mar 2011
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China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

Editor's note: On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China turned 60 years old. To mark this event, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University held a conference titled "The People's Republic of China at 60:... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

When former President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports in 2019, the economic dynamics between the world’s two biggest economies forever shifted. American businesses hoping President Joe Biden would return to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

14 Jul 2009
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Business Summit: China in the Global Economy

strong, said panelists. China's economy has transformed from an export-driven economy to a domestically driven economy. Given its size, the Chinese domestic market is strategically important for all global companies striving to maintain... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

Even as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang welcomed a "war on air pollution" in China's eastern cities, which involves utilizing synthetic natural gas, this comes at the price of huge amounts of coal-fired energy and huge increases in China's... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

17 Jan 2017
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Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

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