International Investment Barriers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

world's poorest countries. The International Finance Corporation invests some $2.5 billion in private-sector enterprise in developing nations. The Multilateral Investment... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
Case

Doing Business in Helsinki, Finland

By: Martin A. Sinozich, Lena Duchene, Tonia Labruyere and Daniela Beyersdorfer

This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Finland. It highlights Finland's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Crisis Management; Culture; Environmental Sustainability; International Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Finland; Europe

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17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when Yoffie began a three-year effort to update an HBS elective course on strategy development in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

discuss research possibilities in more depth. Below are snapshot summaries of their presentations. Globalization And Fdi A native of Costa Rica, Professor Laura Alfaro teaches the Business, Government and the International Economy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Bert S. Cross

Cross spent over 40 years with 3M and was known as a “builder of businesses.” He successfully commercialized several new product lines including Scotchlite and Thermo-Fax copying machines. During his tenure, 3M expanded its international... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Jun 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Apr 2014
News

Support for the Global Century

Robert F. Greenhill (MBA 1962), the founder and chairman of an investment banking firm with 13 offices across five continents, is acutely aware of the global nature of business in the 21st century. “As is the case in most companies today,... View Details

2013
Working Paper

What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms

By: Amir N. Licht, Christopher Poliquin, Jordan I. Siegel and Xi Li

On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms from the ambit of formal U.S. antifraud enforcement. We use this legal... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; International Finance; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Courts and Trials; Legal Liability; United States

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03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

Portrait Project

Jennifer Keedy Banks

I have touched, ways I've demonstrated my love for my family, and how I have used my skills to aid my church and my community Investing in my most valuable assets, my precious children, by taking the time to listen to them and being... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

In partnership to support a mission

Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2... View Details

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

"how can we change the system to prevent refugee crises in the first place?" That insight pushed Josh to "look for a systems-wide, macro-level shift I could be a part of." Eschewing the Peace Corps path, he chose a career in View Details

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Brittany Williams

even know what investment banking was.” But she found the idea attractive because, “It would allow me to apply my problem-solving skill set to the business world, advising clients on the biggest problems they faced, like M&A or... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

also—and crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

across their internal corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different institutional pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

central problems that companies face in scaling markets for clean technologies? Analysts widely assume the cost of clean technologies and services is the main barrier to market penetration. We examine the role of coordination and... View Details

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