World Economic Forum - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

Porter Course Goes Abroad

Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) located in Riga, Latvia. For 2003, the list of potential partner universities has expanded to include more than fifteen schools in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. “There is a tremendous need... View Details

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

historians, often in recent decades trained in economics and employed in economics departments, have remained focused on economic change, but have often paid little attention... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

involved a developed economy, "That would (suggest) a new type of fourth world country, a developed economy which just turned into a developing one." Should world financial policy essentially... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 May 2008
News

Small World? Read Nil about It

dismiss as irrelevant by general readers. So can globalization truly be said to exist or prevail where people have little interest in, knowledge of, or exposure to world affairs? From my experience of living in Latin America for a number... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information

01 Dec 2007
News

Mead Treadwell

President Bush himself has now urged ratification of the UNCLOS. Please delineate the Arctic’s economic and strategic importance. We produce 20 percent of America’s oil out of the Arctic today, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimate is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

Fast Answer

Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry

business and management under the umbrella of sustainable manufacturing HBS Working Knowledge ScienceDirect The following sources are useful for industry updates World Manufacturing Foundation View Details

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

in the United States and focuses on the strategic goal of transforming food safety from a "necessary evil" to a brand-enhancing differentiator. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/814014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-118 The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

II, America’s policy leaders made bold investments in education, infrastructure, and entrepreneurship that paid off in a four-decade run of prosperity unlike anything the world had ever seen. The need of the hour now is to once again... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in cities around the world and raising... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No disrespect to Detroit and California—they’re definitely hubs... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

will take for us to maintain leadership in the future. What the USTR list did highlight for me is the extent to which supply chains have globalized and intertwined across almost every industrial sector. That means that economic sanctions... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

Fast Answer

FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Chile

results screen to refine your search Country information and data World Development Indicators Economist Intelligence Unit OECD Economic Surveys Chile News Factiva EMIS Alerts available. Click on... View Details

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

shoemakers in Italy among other industries to understand why manufacturing clusters still survive. ©iStock.com/panpipe The two shoe clusters studied are physically only 50 kilometers apart, but worlds apart in their success. The sports... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global economic... View Details

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

01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Chris Hurst

“Infrastructure remains deficient in the Middle East,” Chris says, “but often there’s a significant economic element in conflict. People frequently view the legitimacy of a state as a function of their View Details

Portrait Project

Thomas Rajan

I believe I can fly. Comfortably. And so should everyone else. Only a half-century ago, it took my grandfather over a month to make the journey here from India by ship. It was the only means of travel he could afford. Today, I can travel half way around the View Details

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