globalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Optimizing search technology

Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details

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

01 Sep 2020
News

Comeback Trail

during economic recovery—and three pieces of advice for today’s leaders Wide Angle Professor Debora Spar on Roosevelt’s reforms—and how the pandemic might impact globalization and the future of higher education View Details

Spring 2014
Article

Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the "dynamic trajectories" framework to study the evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Change; India

August 2008 (Revised November 2015)
Supplement

Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (B)

By: Geoffrey G. Jones, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki

This brief (B) case documents the fate of Mitsubishi and the shipping company NYK after the death of Yataro Iwasaki in 1885. The case supplements case 808-158, “Yataro Iwaski: Founding Mitsubishi (A).” View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Leadership; Japan

Citation

Purchase

01 Feb 2017
News

New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Two decades ago, HBS launched the Global Initiative to strengthen the School's engagement with businesses and business leaders around the world and to... View Details

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

abroad, an advantage for investing in Africa. The main disadvantage for South African firms to operate in the African markets is that their risk profile will be correlated. In other words, they're going to be overexposed to Africa from a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the Harvard Gazette about China’s economic woes and how they may affect global markets and investors going forward. Christina Pazzanese: Why were so many caught off-guard by this crash? Weren’t there warning signs that this might happen?... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in Taiwan, for example, can then be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

January 2021
Supplement

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (B)

By: David J. Collis, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

This case is a follow up to HBS Case No. 721-373, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (A). Following the events of the previous case, Takeda reached an agreement to acquire Ireland-based Shire Plc. The case follows some of the achievements and challenges Takeda and... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceuticals; M＆A; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Biotech; Biotechnology; R＆D; Talent Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Global Strategy; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan; Asia

Citation

Purchase

06 Aug 2014
News

An Insider's Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Keywords: international deal; China; Internet; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

11 Jul 2012
News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

commercial hub. Q: On the larger topic of Africa, which appears to have been left behind in the globalization movement, where do you see Africa heading over the next twenty years, in terms of economic development? A: Hopefully, the next... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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 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

1990
Chapter

From Cross-Border Corporate Transactions to Environmental Accords

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agreements and Arrangements; Environmental Sustainability

Citation

01 Mar 2010
News

Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying

globalism spread. Few Muslims today live lives linked to truly universal Islamic institutions that provide governance, education, economies, legal systems, or cultural expression. Instead, the author describes a civilization in name only,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information