Internationalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2024
News

A Wide Net

Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

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

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Other Unpublished Work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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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust , her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clinic: Growth Strategy 2015 by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined... View Details

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Gallatin Hall | About

was replaced with energy-efficient systems, and sustainable building materials were used throughout, earning Gallatin LEED Gold for new construction certification, an internationally recognized green building standard. More than 80... View Details

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

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

reveal widespread knowledge gaps about current tariffs, even among internationally exposed firms. Most businesses expect continued policy uncertainty throughout 2025, anticipate reduced sales and increased costs, face limited options for... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Former Dean Kim Clark established the Global Initiative in 1996 to encourage deeper understanding of and engagement with innovative management practices around the world. Nearly three decades later, more than half of HBS cases published are set View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Profile

Peter Gumulia

thought of my career as one stepping stone after another. But the school has taught me to think differently: ‘What’s the one problem I want to help contribute solving over the next ten years?’ For me, that’s making Indonesia an View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

also know about Asian entrepreneurs. So I settled on Raj Kapoor, who, in his 20s, started a film studio in the 1940s in what was then a young industry: Hindi cinema. Bollywood was founded in 1912 in India, a year after Hollywood. Kapoor, who worked through the... View Details

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Global Activities 2020

and research pursuits have markedly increased the internationalization of the School. This report features a selection of stories that highlight the School’s influence and impact around the world during the 2019–2020 academic year. Global... View Details

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

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the... Sandra J. Sucher MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally... View Details

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

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

a lot. It’s one of the reasons Aphrodite supports 50 currencies now. Daniel Dietzel CEO of Aphrodite at Aphrodite Gain the skills and knowledge needed to grow your business internationally and more effectively manage global teams. "The... View Details

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

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