globalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2011
News

Project Aims to Boost US Competitiveness

A cross-disciplinary team of HBS faculty, led by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, has launched a project on US competitiveness that will feature a special spring 2012 issue of the Harvard Business Review and a long-term research agenda. “America’s ability to... View Details

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

December 1986 (Revised November 1990)
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Club Med (B)

Highlights the issue of high employee turnover in a multi-site, international subsidiary of a large resort company. Also described are service-quality problems the company has because the amount of value added through employee interaction with customers is high.... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Retention; Recruitment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Tourism Industry; United States

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September 2012 (Revised December 2013)
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Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (B)

By: Juan Alcacer and Kerry Herman

In February 2006, Intel has selected the location for its new assembly and test plant. This case discusses why this location was chosen from the list of possibilities introduced in "Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A)." View Details

Keywords: Location Choices; Location Strategies; Strategy; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Technology; Technology Industry; United States; Viet Nam

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02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy may now take itself into chaos." We asked three Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

The influence of a nation's history, infrastructure, and culture permeates all aspects of life within the country, including the norms, values, and behaviors of managers in its national companies. Nationally influenced behavioral characteristics become an ingrained... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal