Internationalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

did you decide on China, Malaysia, and Indonesia as your study areas? Rithmire: I was initially interested in the internationalization of firms from developing countries, especially in Asia. While I was exploring that topic, China... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

Going Global Expanding operations to another country brings a whole new set of complications, says Alcácer. For one, businesses that expand internationally need to adjust their offerings to a completely different market since each country... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2015
Report

Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States

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2009
Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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21 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

internationalize without understanding the true economics of their business. The value chain is the principal tool to delineate the geographic boundaries of competition, to determine how local or how global that business is. In a local... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

about Embraer versus Bombardier in the regional jet market. In addition, Embraer is selling or has sold a fraction of its equity to a French consortium. Plus, an IPO is being planned." "What problems confront a company that's trying to become View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

sandwiched between Nobel Prize—winner Robert Merton, who helped create the Black-Scholes options pricing model, and Michael Tushman, who had written many books and "was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

hinder its transnational efficiency.” Farah commented, “Bitcoins are useful for trading currencies internationally seamlessly in real time—something current banks lack ” According to Kueth Duany, they are “proving to be another... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

returning to Atlanta." If the business climate can force Coke, which historically was (and is) more profitable internationally than domestically, to seesaw back and forth on globalization in this way, think of the pressures on the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

to view global markets. For example, Levitt's work underscores the difference between internationalization and globalization, between a multinational and global corporation. Internationalization reflects the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

marketplace? A: The Codecademy team focused on a superior product experience for their customers. This focus on product experience and design is a critical element for companies trying to differentiate themselves. It all starts with engaging the user. Q: How important... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

22 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 22

and adapt leadership and talent management best practices to law firm structures and challenges. Chapters cover all of the important aspects of strategic talent management and provide practical guidance from law firm talent management experts View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

Chinese universities, such that they now increasingly are becoming strong schools of management with a desire to become recognized internationally both for their research and for their teaching. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

University School of Medicine, and HBS. The researchers plan to replicate the study internationally to compare costs in Switzerland and other countries. It’s complicated As for why administrative costs are so high in the United States and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

Virts replied. Regarding what it's like to work with an internationally diverse team in close quarters, Virts indicated that it's a matter of character and attitude. "The ability to work with other cultures is absolutely mandatory... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

public speaking. Many self-help books, a very popular book category in the United States, make use of sales techniques. Q: What are the latest research trends in this area? A: I think there are two trends. Some people are, as I mentioned, trying to do View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

focused mainly on the challenges of starting a company in a specific country—such as Argentina or Thailand—instead of launching internationally from the get-go, as many entrepreneurs do today. Kerr says he wanted LGV to "go straight... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

interest in the web platform so that they have real impact on retail corruption in India. Possible solutions discussed include teaming up with local governments and police, focusing attention on one or two Indian cities, and franchising ipaidabribe.com View Details