International Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

apart" with increased training times and more rapid changes in international job markets, according to Michael Lindsey. "We're headed for a two-tier economic society..." says Mike Dorkoski. While Brad Leach opines,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

her Bachelor’s degree, Dafna continued as a research analyst at the UC Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy studying these topics. Once she realized she wanted to direct her own research agenda,... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration policies would boost the View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Aug 2001
News

Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)

HBS team that found that overseas investment by American companies benefited the U.S. economy by increasing exports and creating higher-paying jobs in this country. His testimony on Capitol Hill helped defeat bills aimed at restricting... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Educational Services

11 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

sharper national identities. The interwar disintegration of the international economy also led to the national subsidiaries of multinationals taking on strong local identities. Over the past two decades, as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

settings, reflects risk neutrality in choice among low-magnitude mixed gambles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-056.pdf PublicationsConstructing the International Economy... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

export-driven economy to one that is driven by consumers. Like no other company, Alibaba has succeeded in making China—a country with countless internal barriers to trade—seem like one market, where goods... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

US domestic policy choices and political priorities.” GeorgeO teed up the issue of the relative power of various constituencies by asking about the purpose of international trade. “At its core the trade debate can be considered to be a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil

By: Laura Alfaro, Hise O. Gibson, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Pedro Levindo

The case gives readers an overview of key factors of doing business in Brazil, including Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term, after the most polarized... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; International Relations; Political Elections; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; Brazil; Latin America; Sao Paulo

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21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been able to intimate themselves into... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

Profile

Damali Brown

gave me a local perspective on global issues we had discussed in Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE). Watching the Tanzanians who carried 35- to 45-pound loads for us every day — for... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI for Leaders Business, Government & the View Details

25 May 2011
News

Race to the Finish?

batteries can be quickly inserted. He further notes that emissions created by charging an electric car’s batteries are less than the emissions produced by powering an internal combustion engine to cover the same amount of miles. With tens... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

the fastest-growing sectors of the economy and one that could help shore up resilience in a country otherwise focused on tourism, Genta explains. (The coronavirus-related cancellation of the Grand Prix leveled a huge blow to the local... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

economy to personal and planetary well-being. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor, which is too often masked by meat-based stocks or butter and cream. This book provides an A-to-Z listing of hundreds of... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong

Myths, Realities, Opportunities," the conference will be held in Hong Kong April 5 through 8 on the eve of the official transfer of power in June. "We timed the conference to coincide with the transition," says David B. Yoffie, Max and Doris Starr Professor of View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

08 Jan 2019
News

Raising Prospects for Female Funders

Maria Eugenia Giron (MBA 1992) is an entrepreneur and investor in the luxury goods industry, based in Madrid. She’s a cofounder of Rising Tide Europe, a women’s angel investing group that is part of an international movement to provide... View Details

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and View Details