Entry Into China - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

America the Difficult

States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI — the developed markets of Europe and Japan and the emerging markets of China and India — are filled with capital... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance

18 Oct 2016
News

China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

misses.” Those misses have been pushed into the shadows by the hits in Breyer’s portfolio, including a once-little startup called Facebook. Breyer met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2005. Within 48 hours he knew he wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Alvarez has visited farms, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and supermarkets to explore issues of concern to managers working around the world and across the supply chain. “We try to get into the weeds of what’s happening and speak to the... View Details

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

effect on population size." Impact of robots more widespread Tabellini and his colleagues compiled data from 722 US commuting zones (CZs), or areas where people live to commute to work. They split 25 years into three sections: 1990 to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry depends on tapping View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

always have support from the broadest possible portion of the electorate. Most importantly, RCV eliminates the enormous barrier to entry that plurality voting creates. Combined with nonpartisan top-five primaries to create Final-Five... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

many diversified media companies viewed entry into cable as a hedge: they believed that their newspaper readership and broadcasting audiences might decline over time due to competition with cable, and wanted... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

How does an entrepreneur make the switch from inspiring a tiny group of followers in a metaphorical garage to leading what eventually becomes a multibillion-dollar business? The ability to translate individual creativity into sustained... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

might evolve into a pandemic strain that spreads easily among people, or what its lethality might be. We know only that a pandemic is possible, and that’s why the world must prepare now for the very real threat of a global public-health... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

Web

Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Brackets indicate information not found in the print itself, but taken from reference sources. Latin words for the publisher of early prints (excud., divulge., formis) have been retained in the entries when they occur because publishers... View Details

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

Human Services (HHS) to include the dataset in the official federal COVID-19 reporting system, which we’re very excited about. Once fully double-coded, the ultimate hope is that HHS and many other outlets will endorse and post this valuable county-level dataset/map so... View Details

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

we (as common people) be thinking into how to share solutions ?) ... Our ideas, our knowledge, should be public." Or do you feel, as Gaurav does, that "the creator is the owner! If not, people will not create"? (Of course,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

eventual entry of commercial banks, brokers, and other intermediaries into serving the middle-class market. My thesis at Penn examined how and why these institutions were established and regulated as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

themselves. The protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 led to retaliation all over the world, and trade fell into a downward spiral that exacerbated the crisis. "One thing we keep relearning is that gains from trade do not... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

Profile

Philipp Schäelli

worked in Pakistan, Chile and China before school, I wanted to go back to another developing market to broaden my understanding for the world. Nigeria for me was the most exciting place to go as it is the fastest growing and largest... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

people in industrializing societies to get themselves into debt. At the same time, waged employment in booming nineteenth-century cities created a class of borrowers who lacked the social networks necessary for older types of neighborly... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

(Elephants), yet also entrepreneurial (Rabbits). However, we also discovered that joint-venture firms in China were more competitive and less bureaucratic than state-owned enterprises." Despite these differences, the similarities of... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

success as well as failure. Christensen noted several models for creating a new-growth business. First, you can bring better products into an established market, although this approach is extremely risky, he said. Another approach he... View Details