Globalized Economies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2007
News

Hollywood Squared

In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2007), Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton (MBA ’87) declared that from his perspective “the global economy in general —... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

Professor at HBS. Far from a drag, he argues, being part of Europe was a key competitive advantage for Britain. Its economy benefitted more from EU funding than it contributed, even as a net contributor to the EU budget. Immigration was a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Sep 2015
News

Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future

senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry; and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written and lectured on Japan’s Asia policy and Asian economic integration. Her 2006 book, Transforming East Asia, analyzes the... View Details

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the Harvard Gazette about China’s economic woes and how they may affect global markets and investors going forward. Christina Pazzanese: Why were so many caught off-guard by this crash? Weren’t there warning signs that this might happen?... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

13 Jul 2011
News

China Boot Camp

export-driven economy to one centered around knowledge industries and services and a growing consumer class. “It took a week or so to recover afterward, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way,” HBS associate professor Suraj... View Details

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

01 Mar 2007
News

Faculty Books

of globalization continues today. Business Solutions for the Global Poor edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton (Jossey-Bass Publishers) This book, edited by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an economic force of major View Details

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

25 Apr 2014
News

Making 'human connections' to build business in emerging markets

Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), director of the Global Strategy Advisory of Citi, talks about creating "human connections" with clients in emerging markets. (Published April 2014) View Details

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

When former President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports in 2019, the economic dynamics between the world’s two biggest economies forever shifted. American businesses hoping President Joe Biden would return to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

Raghuram Rajan likens Indians' view of their economy to their view of the nation's cricket team. When the team's doing well, he says, fans essentially worship the players and ignore any flaws. But during a losing streak, the collective... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2005
News

Ideas: Books

the last 200 years: how they pursued resources and markets across borders in the 19th century, coped with the global economy’s collapse between the two world wars, and are driving the world economy as the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

Chinese care about China, of course, but they are rooting for America as well” Management educators talk frequently about best practices and use case studies to illustrate by example. For more than a century global observers have... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

have been obvious even without the devastation we have just witnessed. First is that the new economy never was all that different from the old. In the ancient, heady days of the Internet boom, it became fashionable to declare that the... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

December 1997 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Doing Business in China

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; China

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Tafadzwa Samushonga

opportunities that HBS has provided for her to engage with new markets. “I am particularly excited about how other developing economies are using technology to tackle similar problems to those we are facing back home.” As part of the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

15 Oct 2019
News

Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a financial services operation to a... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Dec 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global capital requirements will reduce... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

14 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

nation is most defined—then we can really see how national identities and nationalisms might interact with globalization. I think the most important thing to recognize about the possibilities, therefore, is that there is no inherent contest between View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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