Global - Publications - Faculty & Research

Responsibility of Business

The global economy is in a transitional phase. Being a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Business School provided an exceptional opportunity to meet a diverse range of scholars from around the world to debate the most challenging... View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The Europe Research Center (ERC) is the newest of Harvard Business School's Global Initiative research centers, having opened its doors in July 2002. With the political and economic currents now affecting relations between the United... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Aug 2014
News

A closer look at the industry of beauty

The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty Imagined: A History of the View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum. "There's one Chinese company, for example, that has established... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

Intriguing Questions

studying Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Business Administration at Harvard Business School. During my time at HBS, I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to take Professor Geoff Jones’s Entrepreneurship and Global... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Capturing Human Capital

Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many... View Details

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

Pundits and investors spoke giddily of the end of national borders, of markets that spanned the globe and replaced the hefty weight of machines and plants with ephemeral bits of information. This may be true. We do have global markets and... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes of one degree or another were inevitable. I needed a... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

Anthony L. Chirchirillo Leveraging China to Achieve Global Advantage for a U.S. Factory Chirchirillo: From Wisconsin base to global competitor. Related Links The Path to Economic Revival James McNerney Jr.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

economy, it's getting more essential that global executives learn their way around Chinese cultural customs in order to be successful in that country. While every country has its version of the "old boys network" that defines... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Research Summary

The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Make Plans for Washington GLF

ties between all of you and the School. The fact that I am the first non-U.S. member of the Alumni Board to serve in this capacity says much about the global orientation of HBS today. Having served on the board for the past three years,... View Details

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

01 Oct 1998
News

Value Added

percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

on with X.” Global sales are critical to the success of most big businesses. In fact, for companies in the S&P 500, some 46 percent of sales came from outside the United States in 2011. "When nearly half of anything a firm does is X,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2014
News

Freedom to Explore

former president of the HBS Alumni Association in the UK and organizer of the 2005 HBS Global Leadership Forum, explains that the School gave her the confidence to succeed. “HBS showed me the right path. I’m an entrepreneur, and I help... View Details

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

SUMMING UP: Does It Matter If China Assumes Global Trade Leadership? There are a variety of reasons why China is not a threat to the global trade leadership of the United States. They include demographic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Specifically, Martin Edic points out that "Much of global air business travel, for example, is unnecessary ... (with) broadband connections combined with free VoIP software." Necessary behaviors can be fostered by incentives as... View Details