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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
succeed in building high quality client relationships, delivering appropriately innovative thinking, and helping their firms grow and improve performance—all within China's unique political and cultural context. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
recognized as providing an important dimension in international business studies. Much of this historical work has focused on mapping historical growth patterns of multinationals and exploring the determinants of their growth. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil
By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, Yasheng Huang, and Marios S. Kalochoritis. Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil. Harvard Business School Case 701-079, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
What does nationalism mean for the world economy? And what does it have to say in a world of ever-increasing globalization? We recently put those questions to political scientist and HBS professor Rawi Abdelal. His new book, National... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
"Instead of an outside regulation, an internal governance on salary structure, which is based on a value that 'Every employee should go home with a smile on his face' will create win-win situations for employees and... View Details
- 2015
- Article
Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World
By: Faisal Z Ahmed and Eric D. Werker
The conflict following the Arab Spring is not the first wave of civil war in the Muslim world in recent time. From the mid-1980s to the end of the century, an average of one in 10 predominantly Muslim countries experienced violent civil war in any given year. We... View Details
Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric D. Werker. "Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World." Quarterly Journal of Political Science 10, no. 2 (2015): 155–186.
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
shifted. The new "somebody else" was the international cadre of investors, who recognized the possibilities of profit in this market. The dizzying escalation in home prices masked the shaky underpinnings of this empire.... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly... View Details
- 2004
- Other Unpublished Work
Just Jobs? China and the Geopolitics of Virtuous Production
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2008
- Working Paper
Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues
Alcacer, Juan, and Paul Ingram. "Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-045, September 2008.
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
result. The latter result, together with transitivity of blocking, leads to an elementary proof of the so-called stable median matching theorem, showing how the often incompatible concepts of stability (represented by the political... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
different review settings. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mluca/OptimalAggregation.pdf International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance By: Foley, C. Fritz, and Kalina Manova Abstract—An emerging new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
behavior should be considered a critical leadership skill. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50320 Summer 2016 California Management Review Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
multilateralism in the European Union. The renaissance of the Russian state and the rise of Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, have produced patterns of international politics that seemed almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- December 8, 2022
- Article
The New China Shock: How Beijing’s Party-State Capitalism Is Changing the Global Economy
By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, China began to move away from the market-based approach that had shaped its economic policies for three decades, and toward something that might be termed “party-state capitalism,” which involves a high degree of... View Details
Pearson, Margaret M., Meg Rithmire, and Kellee S. Tsai. "The New China Shock: How Beijing’s Party-State Capitalism Is Changing the Global Economy." ForeignAffairs.com (December 8, 2022).