Globalized Economies and Regions - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

think awareness is heightened, and in this economy there'll be a drop in demand for space, both for apartments and offices,” he says. “With those two things together, I think... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

At Harvard Business School, one of professor Rafael Di Tella's areas of study is how political corruption and common crime can be controlled in a variety of contexts. So it was only natural that Di Tella would be asked to comment when the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

about professional ritual, rhythms, and disciplines that underlie the general approach to what they did with the music as well. If you look at how theater ensembles work, there is a notion at the People's Light & Theatre Company, a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

and its most likely future rival. For China, the key attraction of the relationship was its potential to propel the Chinese economy forward by means of export-led growth. For the United States, Chimerica... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

obtaining full disclosure, and in general exercising oversight in such relationships. Coase's ideas were thought to be so valuable that they earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. One of the most important phenomena of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

when the economy was growing and stable years following the global financial crisis at the turn of the decade, with conditions that mirrored the US small business landscape... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements of a communications... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2007
Chapter

The Complete Business of Serving the Poor: Insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Dalip Sehgal and Rohithari Rajan

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; India

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15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

Fall 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Global Talent Flows By: Kerr, William R., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Çağlar Özden Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

http://howardgardner.com/2014/05/27/mind-work-and-life/ August 2013 Journal of Political Economy Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices By: Antràs, Pol, and C. Fritz Foley... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

1984
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Multinationals from Asian Developing Countries

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Asia

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1983
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Third World Multinationals

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management

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December 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Case

Fonterra: Taking on the Dairy World

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jose M. M. Porraz

Fonterra was a cooperatively owned dairy company--New Zealand's largest company and the world's largest exporter of dairy products. To maintain its leadership, Fonterra had to respond to increased competition, new consumer tastes, consolidation of its customers, and... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Global Strategy; Food; Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Competitive Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; New Zealand

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01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31216 Breaking New Ground: The Emerging Frontier of CSR in the Extractive Sector Authors:V. Kasturi Rangan and Brooke Barton Publication:Chap. 9 in Global... View Details

28 Feb 2012
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actually lived) is named phenomenology. In short, an epistemological mastery of a subject leaves one knowing. An ontological mastery of a subject leaves one being. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1681682 Reflected Knowledge View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

important role of the infrastructure provision in any economy and how it shapes economic activity. Infrastructure includes everything from roads and airports to trains View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

April 2010
Teaching Note

IBM: The Corporate Service Corps (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason

Teaching Note for [409106]. View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Employees; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Global Strategy; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry; Ghana; Tanzania; Romania; Philippines; Viet Nam

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25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

the book along with Regina M. Abrami, a former HBS professor now at the Wharton School; and F. Warren McFarlan, the HBS Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. "We think the future of the Chinese View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2001
Case

iSteelAsia-2001

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Iris T. Li

Presents a follow-up one year later. Shows how this online steel distributor has now reached breakeven. Focuses on the new challenges for the future. View Details