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HBS Working Knowledge
April 3, 2006
Sean Silverthorne |
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance As waves of globalization wash across the business world, great new opportunities for financing and investment open to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, Harvard professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous challenges and opportunities facing firms as they make these decisions.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 24, 2005
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers Does the presence of stronger intellectual property rights increase international technology transfer in general? It's an important question because of the potential benefits to both the companies involved and the local economies where they do business. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 2, 2006
Martha Lagace |
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience When TV Nova launched as the first private television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few anticipated the business drama behind the scenes. Here's what managers can learn from one unlucky investor's experience. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 30, 2008
Mihir A. Desai |
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI American financial executives are courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth funds, for new investments. Should these investments draw increased scrutiny from U.S. regulators? Economics says that FDI should be encouraged. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2008
Allen Kenney |
Mutual Interests It's not uncommon these days for some of world's largest investor groups to partner with experienced advisors and managers. It only makes sense that some of them turn to REITs for help with their real estate investments. |
Food Processing
May 2012
Brian Smith |
Are New Alliances Indicative of Joint Venture Activity for Food and Beverage Industry? PepsiCo-Ocean Spray Latin American strategic alliance may signal an uptick in food and beverage industry joint ventures. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
Taube & Yungmann |
Promoting Transparency in Joint Venture Financial Reporting and Disclosure Joint venture arrangements have become an integral part of the business model of many real estate companies, and financial statement preparers and users have worked toward achieving a satisfactory level of transparency... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Steve Bergsman |
Joint Ventures: How the Deal is Done The growing trend of REITs teaming with institutional partners is gaining momentum. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2007
Anderson & Moultrup |
Investing Worldwide Ongoing challenges will continue to impact the current wave of global expansion, including changes in interest rates, oil prices, terrorist activities, and governmental trade restrictions. Still, the impact of globalization is too large to be ignored. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 12, 2014
Sean Silverthorne |
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization Why is the firm overlooked as a contributor when we identify the drivers of globalization? Geoffrey Jones discusses his new book, Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2005 |
Collaborating To Grow A study foresees the increase in strategic alliances and joint ventures. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 7, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai describes how the U.S. taxes corporations' foreign profits, and makes a case for exempting foreign profit from taxes if proper safeguards are put in place. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Adrienne Selko |
Consider the Total Tax Package When Looking To Locate in India India is very competitive when you factor in the many tax incentives offered to foreign companies. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 18, 2005
Tarun Khanna et al. |
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers and figure out if there are checks and balances in place. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 24, 2014 |
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home The flood of US corporations relocating to other countries is a hot topic in Congress. In testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance, Professor Mihir Desai provided possible solutions. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2003
Steve Bergsman |
Let's Make a Deal With a track record of success, joint ventures between REITs and pension funds are becoming more common. But will shareholders share in the spoils? |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 18, 2005
Ann Cullen |
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System? Mihir A. Desai discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink their tax obligations, how the commonly accepted dual-book system may ultimately harm shareholders, and the role boards of directors play in making sure their companies stay within the rules. |
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2006
Stephen Crawford |
Saving on Title Insurance In an effort to reduce the cost of title insurance by 30% or more, commercial real estate developers, investors, and lenders are increasingly forming partially or wholly owned title insurance agencies to service their own real estate acquisition, disposition, and refinancing activity. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 2, 2009
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs When it comes to entrepreneurship, nothing says success like a track record of previous wins. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 26, 2009
Martha Lagace |
Where is Home for the Global Firm? The defining characteristics of what makes a firm belong to a country -- where it is incorporated, where it is listed, the nationality of its investor base, the location of headquarters functions -- are no longer bound to one country. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2011
Anita M. Pittman |
Distressed Asset Joint Ventures: A Winning Trifecta? This model can help banks maximize the return on their growing inventory of real estate-owned and troubled loans. |
IndustryWeek
November 5, 2003
Mark Gottlieb |
Going It Together A U.S.-Japanese joint venture that's lasted 30 years points the way to successful cross-border partnerships. |
Reason
March 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Gimme Shelters The benefits of tax havens. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2006
Nathan Parmelee |
New Plan Coming Together In spite of changes, New Plan Excel Realty Trust appears to be on track. Investors, take note. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 15, 2003
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
The New Global Business Manager What are the critical skills global managers need today compared to ten years ago? An interview with Harvard Business School professor Christopher A. Bartlett. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 22, 2007
Michael Roberts |
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China Professor William Kerr discusses the phenomena of technology transfer and implications for U.S.-based businesses and policymakers. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
EarthLink, SK Telekom Join in Mobile Venture The $440 million deal creates a force to market next-gen wireless services in the U.S. Asia has been a hotbed of joint venture activity recently in the next generation space. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
The Best Play in Emerging Markets Today U.S. companies can benefit, but they won't be the big winners in emerging markets. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Why The Trade Deficit May Not Loom So Large Sales by foreign units of U.S. companies brighten the outlook. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2013 |
China and the Emerging Markets Challenge: Why Big Pharma Must Embrace a New Strategy With health reform already tagged as a key domestic priority, their policies will pose new opportunities and challenges for Big Pharma companies active in China. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan William A. Sahlman's article on how to write a great business plan is a Harvard Business Review classic, and has just been reissued in book form. Now a decade old, we asked Sahlman what he would change if he wrote the article today. |
InternetNews
December 24, 2003
Roy Mark |
DOJ Ends Antitrust Probe of Online Music Justice concludes marketplace has resolved early questions of possible anti-competitive behavior of major music labels. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 21, 2007
Lodge & Wilson |
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish Countries most successful in reducing poverty have focused on creating profitable businesses. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 28, 2004
Peter J. Williamson |
What the New Asia Means for Multinationals Asia is remaking itself, and that means important strategic rethinking for Western multinationals doing business there. An excerpt from the new Harvard Business School Press book, Winning in Asia. |
CFO
June 1, 2003
Roy Harris |
JV On The Rocks Without plenty of attention and TLC, a joint venture may well run aground. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 3, 2004
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Business History around the World One way to understand management trends and ideas today is to look at yesterday. Geoffrey G. Jones and Franco Amatori have done just that with their new book, Business History around the World. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Thomas J. Duesterberg |
The Competitive Edge -- Exporting Offers A Global Advantage Manufacturers thrive when their production facilities are close to their customers. |
National Defense
December 2004
Michael Peck |
Quick Mission Rehearsals Goal of Joint Training Slashing the rehearsal time needed for joint training missions from months to days is one of the goals of the joint national training capability (JNTC), a concept designed to move joint warfare from rhetoric to reality. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 21, 2010
Martha Lagace |
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets The ambition level of large, fast-growing emerging markets around the world rivals that of companies in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here's how to identify and respond to institutional voids in product, labor, and capital markets. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2005
Chris Mallon |
Bring Home the Billions A one-time corporate tax break could mean money in the bank for big multinationals. Investors ought to be cautious about buying companies based on strong 2005 earnings, and hopefully companies will clearly separate the "real" from the "one-time" in their reporting. |
InternetNews
April 18, 2011 |
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom Form New Joint Venture How do you save money on networking gear? You join with your rival to create a bigger buying group. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Nortel Making Noise in Asia Just a week after a joint venture deal in China, the company forms one with South Korea's LG as part of a larger strategy to reach promising markets. |
