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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
clothing created with the understanding that women should be allowed to explore the world and themselves in it, without prejudice or limitation. Everything I do now is filtered through that lens, so it also informs the work I do in coaching women over 50 who want to...
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- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by leaders responsible for View Details
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by James Heskett
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
The turn of the 21st century has been laden with high-profile corporate scandals, prompting widespread concern about the standards of conduct followed by big business. Intrigued by the complexity of managing corporate behavior in a global...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: China in the Global Economy
continue in China, driven by domestic consumption. To retain global leadership, foreign companies must win Chinese consumers. The experience of Esquel Group over the past 30 years reflects China's evolution from a planned to a market...
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Re: William C. Kirby
- 15 Aug 2022
- Video
The Role of Business in Global Society
- December 2002
- Article
Business Enterprises and Global Worlds
By: G. Jones
The role of business enterprise in integrating economies is one of the central historical themes of the last two centuries. Although globalization—both in its current iteration and in its nineteenth-century form—has been widely studied, the role of the firm, as opposed...
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Macroeconomics;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Organizations;
Emerging Markets;
Behavior;
Business Ventures;
United States
Jones, G. "Business Enterprises and Global Worlds." Enterprise & Society 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 581–605.
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
networks, product packaging, and financing instruments to meet the needs and requirements of very poor customers. As members of the School's Global Poverty Project (GPP), Kash Rangan, John Quelch, and other faculty members have studied...
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by Garry Emmons
- May 2010
- Article
Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles
By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
Cyclicality in the supply of business credit has been the focus of a considerable amount of research. This cyclicality can stem from shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S....
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Business Cycles;
Capital;
Credit;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
System Shocks;
Financial Services Industry
Ivashina, Victoria, and David Scharfstein. "Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 57–61.
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
Going Green in Global Businesses
- TeachingInterests
Globalization and Emerging Markets
Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who will be investing, managing a business or nonprofit, or working for a government in an emerging market. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from countries to multinational and domestic companies... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
preferences (with the beauty industry as an example). According to panelists, globalization has a homogenizing effect on diverse national cultures. Its pressures cause societies to become more alike, converging in View Details
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 14 Oct 2008
- News
Bill Gates Speaks at Harvard Business School Global Business Summit
- 11 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Globalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980
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by Geoffrey G. Jones
- 14 Nov 2011
- News
Creating a Global Business Code
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Business World Gone Global
Today, even small firms dare to think globally and invest accordingly - closing deals in Dubai has become almost as commonplace as doing business in Dubuque, thanks to quantum leaps in travel and transport,...
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society and Strategy track. Introduction to Global Business Global Business...
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Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains
By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
This article analyzes how the geography and organization of pre- and production stages in Global Value Chains (GVC) contribute to lead firms' innovation development. A novel approach in GVC studies is introduced based on transaction cost economics (TCE) and the...
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GVC;
Global Value Chains;
Manufacturing;
Production;
Global Range;
Innovation and Invention
Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano. "Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains." Art. 101167. Journal of World Business 56, no. 2 (February 2021).
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of...
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Management
- 2013
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,...
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FDI;
Economic History;
Business History;
Industrial Organization;
Chinitz;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Cities;
Mines;
Globalization;
Entrepreneurship;
Government and Politics;
Banking Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
Middle East;
North and Central America;
South America
Jones, Geoffrey. Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.