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- February 2011
- Module Note
Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization
By: Diego A. Comin
Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization is one of the core modules in Business Government and the International Economy (BGIE), a course for the required curriculum of the Harvard Business School. BGIE teaches the economic, political and historical... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Business Cycles; Trade; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Capital; Cash Flow; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; China
Comin, Diego A. "Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization." Harvard Business School Module Note 711-064, February 2011.
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
research centers are critical to helping HBS faculty develop the understanding and insight they need to prepare students for leadership around the world.” Lynn Paine, John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration and Senior... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Supporting Global Understanding, Locally
Suzan Sabanci Dincer Suzan Sabanci Dincer has been a key partner with HBS since the opening of the School’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Research Center in Istanbul in 2013. “The center is a continuation of HBS’s efforts to build a deep View Details
- Article
How Warm Days Increase Belief in Global Warming
By: Lisa Zaval, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Eric J. Johnson and Elke U. Weber
Climate change judgments can depend on whether today seems warmer or colder than usual, termed the local warming effect. Although previous research has demonstrated that this effect occurs, studies have yet to explain why or how temperature abnormalities influence... View Details
Zaval, Lisa, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Eric J. Johnson, and Elke U. Weber. "How Warm Days Increase Belief in Global Warming." Nature Climate Change 4, no. 2 (February 2014): 143–147.
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
you get the chance to explore a foreign country – learn its business climate, history, culture, and politics – and work on a real project that enables a business to perform better? This is exactly what you get to do in the Field Global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
students closer to business practices around the world, and enabling us to share our ideas more broadly. Going forward, we want to leverage these activities as we continue to deepen our understanding of View Details
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
poorer borrowers negatively moderate the relationship between social globalization and MFI interest rate, and positively moderate the relationship between economic globalization and MFI interest rate. This... View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy." Jim Aisner of HBS spoke with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
individuals and enable the integration of developing countries into the global economy. It’s an understanding that can be useful in the here and now, too. “This could be a good way for multinational... View Details
- 2005
- Book
Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides an essential framework for understanding global business. It shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; History; Economy; Trade; Strategy
Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
Summing Up Globalization could spur organized labor to rethink its premises, objectives, and strategies. But the prospect for that is not clear, according to respondents to this month's column. As Arun Joshi put it, "Now that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
homegrown companies. But all that is changing as firms shape and adapt to global markets. Says HBS professor Mihir A. Desai, "The defining characteristics of what makes a firm belong to a country—where it is incorporated, where it is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- September 2015 (Revised March 2025)
- Technical Note
FIELD Global Capstone: Developing Customer Empathy
By: Jill Avery
The Design Thinking process begins with empathizing with potential customers. Empathizing, being aware of, interpreting, and understanding the thoughts of others, as well as being able to vicariously experience them oneself, requires the careful and deliberate study of... View Details
Keywords: Market Research; Design Thinking; Customer Behavior; Ethnography; Interviews; Surveys; A/B Testing; Experimentation; Marketing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers
Avery, Jill. "FIELD Global Capstone: Developing Customer Empathy." Harvard Business School Technical Note 316-082, September 2015. (Revised March 2025.)
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Former Dean Kim Clark established the Global Initiative in 1996 to encourage deeper understanding of and engagement with innovative management practices around the world. Nearly three decades later, more... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
gift to help launch the FIELD 2 program. “The world has changed,” says Rubenstein, a member of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors and cofounder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group. “To prepare for 21st-century business realities, you have to View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Fund Advances Global Strategy
Recognizing that the best ideas can come from anywhere and that examples of great leadership and management practice exist everywhere, HBS is extending its intellectual reach to understand these new ideas and approaches and to disseminate... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
semiconductors and container ships. Samsung has set a vision 2020 goal of reaching $400B in revenues by exploring new territories such as biotechnology, virtual reality, and applications of 5G wireless technology, among others. In this backdrop of Samsung, the View Details
Keywords: Technology