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  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

panelists at a Global Alumni Conference session addressing the topic "Global Brands: Connecting with Consumers across Boundaries," chaired by HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 25 Jul 2018
  • News

Business & patriotism, mutually exclusive?

  • Web

Our Curriculum - Business History

Courses Our Curriculum HBS has been offering business history courses since 1927. There are three business history courses currently taught in the MBA curriculum: The Coming of... View Details
  • October 2003 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

Corrupt Practices in International Business

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Robert E. Kennedy
Explores various aspects of corruption in international business. This abridged case contains materials from both Corruption in International Business (A) & (B), but does not include the example "caselets." A rewritten version of earlier cases. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Crime and Corruption
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  • April 2006 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Inverness Medical Innovations - Born Global (A)

Ron Zwanziger has just started his third company, having just sold the last one for $1.3 billion to Johnson & Johnson. As part of the deal with J&J, certain assets were transferred to the new company, Inverness Medical Innovations, which, at the time of its creation,... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Waltham
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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy

forgotten the power of smart, tough diplomacy,” asserts HBS negotiation scholar James Sebenius. Fortunately, a cross-Harvard initiative, the American Secretaries of State Project, is uncovering and archiving... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry

By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since... View Details
Keywords: Soccer; ＂Sports Organizations,; Business History; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry
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  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

of a wider pattern for countries with shared geographical positions, cultural orientations, and historical patterns of development. It is a paradox that in a global world so... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

If there were ever any doubts that HBS graduates would travel to the ends of the earth to reestablish their ties to the School, those doubts can now be put to rest. Although the venue required at least a ten-hour flight for most... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

overall competitiveness, the report identifies national competitive strengths and weaknesses, highlights global economic trends, and signals the ingredients of successful economic development. The Index is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2018 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (A)

By: Feng Zhu, Weiru Chen and Shirley Sun
ZBJ.com (ZBJ), an online platform that connects knowledge workers to small- and medium-sized enterprises, is China’s largest outsourcing platform. Founded by Mingyue Zhu in 2006, ZBJ had grown into a unicorn with 4,000 employees and a daily transaction volume of RMB15... View Details
Keywords: Outsourcing; Disintermediation; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Global Strategy; Information Technology Industry; China
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  • 22 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

HBS Takes Business Education Online

Last year, HBS replaced its previous week-long residential pre-MBA program, Analytics, with HBX’s Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, an online primer on the fundamentals of View Details
  • 02 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

directors, senior managers and executives, all in charge of leading Samsung’s global growth. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 14 Jun 2013
  • Talk

Why Business Can Be Good at Solving Social Problems

By: Michael E. Porter

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his case for letting business try to solve massive problems like climate change and... View Details

Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Strategy; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Scotland
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  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

contrast, as recently as 1979, the top 1 percent had less than half the income of the bottom 40 percent.4 When Business Week writers commented on what was to blame for this increasing gap, their answer was... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • December 2002 (Revised February 2005)
  • Case

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (A): A Global Merger

By: Ashish Nanda
French IT consulting giant Cap Gemini is poised to purchase the consulting arm of Ernst & Young, a U.S.-based Big 5 accounting firm. In doing so, many differences need to be resolved, including negotiating with Ernst & Young entities all over the world as well as... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Multinational Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry; France
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  • June 2020
  • Article

U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles

By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina
Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle,... View Details
Keywords: Global Business Cycle; Monetary Policy; Reaching For Yield; Money; Policy; Credit; Emerging Markets
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  • Web

The Business History of India & South Asia - Creating Emerging Markets

historians, economists, political scientists, and others debated the origins of the Great Divergence in wealth and power between South Asia and the West; the role of family View Details
  • August 2012
  • Article

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Bringing a global perspective to corporate Australia

Peter Bohn (MBA 1998), managing director of the retail chain Diva in Eastern Europe, talks about the advantages of having a global business... View Details