Economic Globalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

percent of the world's economic output, and only 1 percent of the investment. "Africa has still not played the role we'd expect it to play in this messy phenomenon of globalization," Spar said. Pandora's Box Mark Shuttleworth,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

scanrail SUMMING UP: Is Modern Monetary Theory a Fancy Term for Today’s Reality? Modern monetary theory (MMT) is “silly thinking” (Andy), “a totally unproven theory” (Alex), a “free lunch” (John), and “questionable economics for certain”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1998
News

Putting on the Wheels

As head of General Motors's international division - which last year invested $2.45 billion worldwide - Louis Hughes brings a rock-steady philosophy to the auto giant's global operations: "Wherever possible, invest where you sell." Hughes... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

that research. Srinivasan's work with Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu furthers the debate regarding the effect of globalization on corporate governance systems. –Ed.Churchwell: How do you define corporate and country transparency? Why are... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

hotspot for biomedical innovation. The lessons from our history are clear: Where we invest in science, we gain enormous economic pay-offs. “Where we invest in science, we gain enormous economic pay-offs” In... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

17 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Faisal Z. Ahmed

01 Dec 2017
News

The Power of Cultural Understanding

Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current... View Details

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

yet. “Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different stakeholders that they touch was surprising." Cavallo, in searching for a way to explore a once-in-a-lifetime global event like the worldwide View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Jun 2006
News

The Governor’s Admission

John Lynch (MBA ’79), New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, stepped away from the State House last February to teach a case about globalization at the University of New Hampshire. A UNH graduate who majored in English, Lynch confessed that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

February 1997 (Revised August 1997)
Case

Mexico (D): Stabilization and Retrenchment

By: Huw Pill

Describes the response of the Mexican authorities and the international community to the Mexican Peso crisis of 1994 and the banking, financial, and macroeconomic crisis that followed it. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Mexico

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01 Mar 2006
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Faculty Books

firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Intriguing Questions

Growing up in Nepal at a time when the country was going through immense political turmoil, I wondered how the momentous events I was living through fit in with the broader arc of history. My urge to make progress on economic and... View Details

08 Jan 2014
News

Samaras, Greece Assume Presidency of European Union

Keywords: European Union; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Senior Lecturer John Macomber writes about his recent investigative visits to nascent privately-funded municipalities in Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, SAUDI ARABIA—Two days before Thanksgiving, I'm standing at the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

especially the less educated, by free global trade leads directly to the inequality that fuels social unrest and its associated costs. These effects are often underestimated. For example, he points to flaws in the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

is that the membership in the European Union has too often been a convenient scapegoat and distracted from the failure of government to mount a credible and actionable economic strategy. Hit hard by the 2008 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 1998
News

Value Added

percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

Anthony L. Chirchirillo Leveraging China to Achieve Global Advantage for a U.S. Factory Chirchirillo: From Wisconsin base to global competitor. Related Links The Path to View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England. Writing in 1695, Cary laid out a powerful case for how England, through muscular... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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