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- 1994
- Book
The Making of Global Enterprises
By: G. Jones
This volume presents new insights on the history of international business. Two main themes are addressed: how and when has global business developed over the last century? and what has been its impact on host economies? The volume includes a pioneering study by Mira...
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Keywords:
Economic History;
Business Subsidiaries;
Economy;
Trade;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Information Technology
Jones, G., ed. The Making of Global Enterprises. London: Frank Cass, 1994.
- 2016
- Book
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets
By: Lakshmi Iyer
Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"...
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Keywords:
Property Rights;
Economic Policy;
Political Economy;
Emerging Markets;
Economic Growth;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations
Iyer, Lakshmi. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets. World Scientific Publishing, 2016.
- Teaching Interest
Research in Global Health and Health Policy
Teaching Fellow for Professor David Cutler - Harvard College Course GHHP 99
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- 2000
- Book
Globalization and Growth: Cases in National Economic Strategies
By: R. H.K. Vietor and R. E. Kennedy
Vietor, R. H.K., and R. E. Kennedy. Globalization and Growth: Cases in National Economic Strategies. Fort Worth: Dryden Press, 2000.
- 1993
- Book
Economic Reality in Financial Reporting: A Global Survey of Voluntary Corporate Economic Reality Communications
By: David F. Hawkins
- 25 Jan 2008
- Panel Discussion
Corporate Global Citizenship in the 21st Century
As the global agenda is increasingly shaped outside the traditional framework of nation states, corporations not only have licence to operate in the global system, but also a civic duty to contribute to its sustainable health. How should corporations exercise their...
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Porter, Michael E. "Corporate Global Citizenship in the 21st Century." World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2008.
- November 2021 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
The Global Great Depression, 1929-1939
By: Alberto Cavallo, Sophus A. Reinert and Federica Gabrieli
The Great Depression was, by far, the worst economic contraction of the twentieth century, and some of the most important ideas about both fiscal and monetary policy in the second half of the century were developed in response to it. The economic collapse, which...
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Keywords:
Great Depression;
Economic Conditions;
Unemployment;
Homelessness;
Financial Crisis;
History;
Economy;
Policy;
Poverty;
Social Issues;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Cavallo, Alberto, Sophus A. Reinert, and Federica Gabrieli. "The Global Great Depression, 1929-1939." Harvard Business School Case 722-034, November 2021. (Revised January 2024.)
- 05 Jan 2015
- News
China Still Isn't Ready to be a True Global Leader
- Teaching Interest
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
- 2020
- Chapter
The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy
By: William R. Kerr
Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other...
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Keywords:
Global Talent Flows;
Talent and Talent Management;
Global Range;
Immigration;
Policy;
Economy
Kerr, William R. "The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy." Chap. 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 1–37. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Turning Away From the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil
By: Paula Rettl
How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose to expand the welfare state. I argue that a key scope condition of this causal relationship is expectations about...
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Keywords:
Economic Globalization;
Globalized Economies;
Government Administration;
Economics;
Globalization;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Voting;
Brazil;
Latin America
Rettl, Paula. "Turning Away From the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil." Working Paper, August 2022.
- February 2014 (Revised April 2014)
- Course Overview Note
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact
By: Nava Ashraf
Ashraf, Nava. "Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 914-025, February 2014. (Revised April 2014.) (Course Overview Note for Students. Request a courtesy copy.)
- 1993
- Book
Economic Reality in Financial Reporting: A Global Survey of Voluntary Corporate Economic Reality Communications
By: David F. Hawkins
- 2024
- Working Paper
Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo Magistretti
In this paper, we study the effects of economic integration with democratic partners
on democracy. We assemble a large country-level panel dataset from 1960 to 2015, and
exploit improvements in air, relative to sea, transportation to derive a time-varying
instrument...
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Keywords:
Democratization;
Institutional Development;
Economic Integration;
International Trade;
Democracy;
Political Preferences;
Institutions;
Trade;
Global Range;
Economics;
Government and Politics
Tabellini, Marco, and Giacomo Magistretti. "Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-003, July 2018. (Revised March 2024. Available also from VOX, VOXEU, Atlantico, The Economist, Domani, and Ideas for India. Longer NBER working paper version available here. Conditionally accepted at the Review of Economic Studies.)
- Web
Economic Inclusion | Institute for Business in Global Society
Economic Inclusion Society is expecting businesses to help involve everyone in the benefits of economic growth. BiGS is working with faculty to understand how strategies like employee ownership, skills-based...
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- March 2014
- Course Overview Note
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact
By: Nava Ashraf
Ashraf, Nava. "Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 914-031, March 2014. (Course Overview Note for Instructors. Request a courtesy copy.)
- April 2015 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth
The continent of Europe seemed in the spring of 2015 to be in a weaker position relative to other world regions than it had in centuries. Though comparatively small, it had long played a disproportionate role in world history, to the extent that the modern world system...
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Keywords:
The Great Divergence;
Modern Economic Growth;
Empire;
Disruption;
Economic Growth;
Values and Beliefs;
History;
Globalization;
Europe
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 715-039, April 2015. (Revised October 2019.)