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HBS Working Knowledge
December 16, 2011 |
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History The editors of Harvard Business School's Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, are challenging historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 17, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook A Q&A with Geoffrey Jones, coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Business History, which provides a state-of-the-art overview of business history research worldwide. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 19, 2010
Sean Silverthorne |
The History of Beauty The author, Geoffrey Jones, discusses his book, "Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry" |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 7, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy In his new 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. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 22, 2005
Geoffrey Jones |
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950-1980 World War II left the United States in a uniquely powerful position. And the 1950s onwards saw the beginning of the reconstruction of a new global economy. |
Reason
December 2003
Nick Gillespie |
Poor Man's Hero Controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 7, 2006
Sean Silverthorne |
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor? In many world nations, consumers enjoy vast protections that are relatively new on the scene. Why the rapid rise in consumer protectionism? Why do these efforts vary from country to country? A discussion with professor Gunnar Trumbull on his new book, Consumer Capitalism. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2006
Ann Cullen |
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance A discussion about the implications and the historical roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 30, 2005
Sean Silverthorne |
Germany's Pioneering Corporate Managers Harvard professor Jeffrey Fear's book Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management overturns some of our preconceptions of German business leaders. In this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. |
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. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Paul Streeten |
Integration, Interdependence, and Globalization Although many commentators say we are living in a time of unprecedented global integration, the world economy was actually more integrated at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite increasing integration in some respects, today's world is in many ways fragmented and without coordination... |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 28, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India In China and India, much of entrepreneurship is in response to constraints - societal, political, or other. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
S. Ibi Ajayi |
What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 19, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business Which are the best countries for a firm to invest in? |
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. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression by Harold James... Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All by Diane Coyle... Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe by Mitchell A. Orenstein... etc. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Kose et al. |
Financial Globalization: Beyond the Blame Game A new way of looking at financial globalization -- the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows -- reexamines its costs and benefits. |
Reason
December 2001
Brink Lindsey |
The Decline and Fall of the First Global Economy How nationalism, protectionism, and collectivism spawned a century of dictatorship and war... |
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. |
Reason
September 2004
Prakash Loungani |
Globalization Without Tears The book In Defense of Globalization tries to show that major complaints about the adverse social effects of globalization are mistaken. Globalization in fact reduces poverty and the use of child labor, fosters women's rights, promotes respect for democratic norms, enriches culture, and even sustains the environment. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Hand-to-Hand Combat: Can Competitive Markets Knock Out Central Planning? Brink Lindsey's "Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism" is a hard-hitting, richly documented defense of free markets that blames central planning for crippling an emerging global marketplace. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Pisani-Ferry & Santos |
Reshaping the Global Economy The economic and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 7, 2009
Sean Silverthorne |
Government's Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship Professor Josh Lerner, author Boulevard of Broken Dreams, wonders if its time for Uncle Sam to invest in new entrepreneurial firms. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 10, 2004
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures Why are joint ventures losing favor with transnational companies? Professor Mihir A. Desai discusses research that suggests globalization makes go-it-alone strategies pay off. |
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. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Flemming Larsen |
The IMF's Dialogue with Nongovernmental Organizations The IMF is responding to questions about its role in today's world economy by reaching out to civil society at large and to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in particular... |
Reason
March 2003
Charles Oliver |
Global Speculators A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother? |
Finance & Development
September 2006 |
Book Reviews Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry Frieden... Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy? by Guillermo Calvo... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 2006 |
Book Reviews Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen... Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development by Hilton Root... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Boughton & Bradford |
Global Governance: New Players, New Rules The financial turbulence of 2007 illustrates -- not for the first time -- both the benefits and the risks of financial globalization. Here's why the 20th-century model needs a makeover. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 13, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America In her new book, America the Principled, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter details 6 opportunities for America to boost its economic vitality and democratic ideals. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 23, 2005
Cynthia Churchwell |
What Could Bring Globalization Down? Do you think the forces of globalization are here to stay? Harvard professor Niall Ferguson says nothing is for certain. Consider what happened to the "first age of globalization" in 1914---and then look around at the world today. |
Reason
November 2000
Brink Lindsey |
Trade Winds International economic integration is a phenomenon drowned in hype: Cheerleaders talk breathlessly of a world without borders, while doomsayers rage against the supposed tyranny of uncontrolled market forces. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge cut through both sides' bombast... |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Behind The EU Backlash The recent votes against the EU Constitution by the citizens of France and the Netherlands were a stunning rebuke to globalization. But governments must address justifiable fears with an agenda to create jobs of the future. |
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. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2005
Garry Emmons |
The New International Style of Management As the best international companies exhibit similarities in certain standards and practices, managers within these firms, despite national and cultural differences, are finding common ground where they can work together. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2000
Alan Deutschman |
Bring on the misfits Silicon Valley owes its success to cultural outsiders, says Gregg Zachary in "The Global Me." When will the rest of the world open its doors? |
Finance & Development
March 2008
David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 7, 2004
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
The Competition of Countries To be successful in a global world, countries need to build on comparative advantages, says Harvard professor Richard H. K. Vietor. But exploiting natural resources isn't the only answer. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 28, 2006
Sean Silverthorne |
Meeting China's Need for Management Education On a recent trip to China, Steven C. Wheelwright noted an increasing interest in entrepreneurship, globalization, and competitiveness. Most of all, the Chinese have an increasing thirst for management education. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 8, 2010
Sean Silverthorne |
HBS Cases: Looking Behind Google's Stand in China Google's threat to pull out of China is either a blow for Internet freedom or cover for a failed business strategy. What can other companies learn from this collision of cultures? |
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. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Robert H. Bates |
Beyond the Ballot Box Political reform and policy reform in contemporary Africa. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Quintyn & Verdier |
Trusting the Government Confidence in government is the key to financial development. |
