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  • January 2017
  • Article

Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Intensity and Dynamics of Civil Conflict

By: Stephen Chaudoin, Zachary Peskowitz and Christopher Stanton
There is a tremendous amount of variation in conflict intensity both across and within civil conflicts. Some conflicts result in huge numbers of battle deaths, while others do not. Conflict intensity is also dynamic. Conflict intensity escalates, deescalates, and... View Details
Keywords: Civil Wars; Political Economy; Conflict; Trade Interdependence; War; Microeconomics
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  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

upending longstanding principles of free trade established when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Today, multinational firms must adapt, both in terms of trade... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • Summer 2020
  • Article

Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?: The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks

By: Willy C. Shih
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among countries,... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chains; Pandemic; Resilience; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Global Range; Health Pandemics; Disruption; System Shocks; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; China
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies

By: Andrei Hagiu
Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together two or more interdependent groups of customers, have recently risen to economic and business prominence in many industries. This paper first lays out a simple micro-founded framework which aims to organize academic and... View Details
Keywords: Multi-Sided Platforms
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Power of Stars: Do Stars Drive Success in Creative Industries?

Keywords: by Anita Elberse; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video; Financial Services
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-Level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network

By: Ebehi Iyoha
This paper examines the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across U.S. firms through buyer-supplier relationships. Many empirical studies measure firm-to-firm spillovers using firm-level productivity estimates derived from control function approaches.... View Details
Keywords: Supply and Industry; Partners and Partnerships; Production
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  • 08 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

However, since 2005, S Group has held the leadership position; in 2007, it had captured 41 percent market while Kesko's was 33.9 percent. Kesko Plc is publicly traded and pursues a model whereby retailer entrepreneurs use their personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

"If we look at all the regional trade barriers, subvention politics, protective measures, and legal and fiscal barriers that exist worldwide, I think one can assume that globalization is far from having reached its peak." Elisio... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

examine the organizational transformation of risk experts in two large U.K. banks, where we study the dynamics of the risk management function over a period of five years. Our findings indicate that the rising influence of a staff function on strategic decision making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

planning, caution, and preparedness; and order, focused on respect, structure, and shared norms. These styles fit into an "integrated culture framework" according to the degree to which they reflect independence or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

respect to designing and maintaining their costing systems, including the need to keep the costing system in line with the business processes of the firm throughout its life cycle; the setting of transfer prices, which highlights the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

fact that many large organizations have become much more interdependent and complex; one-size-fits-all no longer works so well. This development is also a function of social, economic, and political change. Leaders now have to deal with a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

I. Norton Abstract Three studies demonstrate how culture shapes the contents of gender stereotypes, such that men are perceived as possessing more of whatever traits are culturally valued. In Study 1, Americans rated men as less View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

should be devalued. On the one hand, one might argue that such discussions are an overreaction to current events, that nations have become so interdependent and multinational business organizations so vital to the world's economy that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

sort out a complex tangle of interdependent contributing factors. Environmental and legal issues muddy the water, for example. In the mid-2000s efforts to save a 3-inch fish called the delta smelt from extinction led to a ruling by a US... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

retail trading areas. We hypothesize two effects, cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may change over time and may differ between the catalog and online channels. We find that opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and for the most risky transactions. Finally we examine the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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