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How Trade Secrets Hurt Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship ResearchThey restrict employee mobility. -
Trade Regionalization: More Hype Than Reality?
Trade Digital ArticleExperts have been predicting a shift away from global trade, but recent data suggest otherwise. -
Not Enough Companies Are Ready for Brexit, No Matter What Happens Next
Global Business Digital ArticleThe uncertainty is affecting every industry. -
Preferential Treatment: The New Face of Protectionism?
Global Business Magazine ArticleAs free trade agreements become more popular, they present global executives with thorny strategic and operational decisions. -
Tech Giants, Taxes, and a Looming Global Trade War
Global Business Digital ArticleDramatic tax shortfalls are inflaming governments' resentment about tech companies' soaring profits. -
What Countries and Companies Can Do When Trade and Cybersecurity Overlap
Global Business Digital ArticleBased on an analysis of 33 cases involving 19 countries. -
The Exploding Business of Bartering
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleCompanies are bartering everything from cars to jet fuel to legal services. -
Learning the Tricks of the Trade
Communication Magazine ArticleEach profession has its own vocabulary. Knowing how to talk the talk is critical--in some fields more than others. -
Folly of Free Trade
Global Business Magazine ArticleOur blind allegiance to free trade threatens our national standard of living and economic future. Free trade puts us in direct competition with low-wage... -
Name the Trade Rep, Mr. President
Global Business Digital ArticleObama must make this a key priority to avoid big economic costs for the US and the world. -
How Western Multinationals Are Responding to the Escalating U.S.-China Trade War
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleTheir value chains are increasingly vulnerable. -
New World Disorder
Global Business Magazine ArticleOn January 1, 1995, representatives from 76 countries signed the World Trade Organization (WTO) charter, which for years had been part of a temporary... -
Trump, Globalization, and Trade's Uncertain Future
Global Business Digital ArticleHere's what to watch out for first. -
What Trade Deals Are Good For
Global Business Digital ArticleThey don't have as much impact as either critics or advocates believe. -
The Radical Reshaping of Global Trade
Social and global issues Digital ArticleHow companies can prepare for the new, fragmented, non-system that’s replacing globalization. -
Will the Huawei Arrest Influence the U.S.-China Trade Talks?
Global Business Digital ArticleThe two events most likely aren't related, but that could change. -
Is China's Economic Dominance at an Inflection Point?
Global Business Digital ArticleSix reasons why its position at the top may have been short lived. -
New Tools of Trade
Global Business Magazine ArticleHarvard Business School's Regina M. Abrami and Texas A&M's Leonard Bierman argue that companies hurt only themselves when they block legislation that... -
What Trump's Trade War Could Mean for the WTO and Global Trade
Global Business Digital ArticleNew rulings could open the door to protectionism under the guise of national security. -
The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleCompanies will need to rethink their supply chains.
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LangKomm Sweden: Traversing Middle East Politics
Management Case Study8.95View Details The in-coming Social Democrat-Green coalition government in Sweden cancelled a decades-long arms treaty with the Saudi Arabia, on the grounds of the latter's... -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Not long after John, BeautifulCoffee's (BC) newly appointed producer partnership manager, began his evaluation of the business relationship between BC... -
World Trade Organization
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Explores the origins and workings of the World Trade Organization (WTO), focusing particular attention on the special challenges of trade liberalization... -
Gassled: Regulation Risk in Low-Risk Norway
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In April 2010, infrastructure fund Njord Gas Infrastructure AS bought ExxonMobil's 9.428% stake in Norwegian gas pipelines Gassled. Njord was interested... -
Midea Refrigerator: The "Go Global" Odyssey
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details By 2016, Midea Refrigerator was one of the leading Chinese manufacturers and exporters of refrigerators. Yet despite its broad global product market,... -
Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures.... -
Global Farmer and the Future of Soybean Production
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Three farmers from three different countries are looking at the global soybean system and how to position themselves in the future. -
Sasol: U.S. Growth Program
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Sasol, the world's largest producer of synthetic oil from coal and gas, has announced plans to build a huge Catalytic cracker and gas-to-liquids plant... -
Standing up for Steel: The US Government Response to Steel Industry and Union Efforts to Win Protection from Imports (1998-2003)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The March 2002 decision by President George W. Bush to impose tariffs on some imported steel capped a long-running campaign by the US steel industry and... -
Bitcoin
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After three years of trading in relative obscurity, the emergence of bitcoin in 2013 as a viable cryptocurrency is promising both to open up new possibilities... -
Tommy Koh: Background and Major Accomplishments of the Great Negotiator, 2014
Communication Case Study8.95View Details Significant negotiation-related achievements from the career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of... -
Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business in the China Trade (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Augustine Heard Sr. founded Augustine Heard & Company, a commission house focused on trade between China and the United States, in 1840. He welcomed his... -
The Sino-Russian Rapprochement: Energy Relations in a New Era
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details The United States could enhance or threaten China's energy security but China was unsure of the U.S. intentions. China and the United States were both... -
The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In May 2019, amidst of an ever-worsening trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump added Chinese telecom giant Huawei to the Department... -
Why Countries Trade: The Theory of Comparative Advantage
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The theory of comparative advantage is a surprisingly common-sense idea, but it is often misunderstood. In this technical note the basic theory of comparative... -
BRF
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details In 2015, BRF's new leadership team is transforming several aspects of the Brazilian protein giant, which had grown sluggish after the 2011 merger that... -
FDI in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details China is one of the most popular investment destinations in the world. Throughout much of the 1990s, China accounted for 50% of foreign direct investment... -
Valley Farms International (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The partner describes some of the problems and issues involved in selling and exporting dairy cattle to a middle-east country. He must decide whether... -
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 1980, the city of Kunshan was mere countryside, registering neither on the Chinese government's nor the international business community's radar. By... -
Time Out: A New Global Strategy to Bring Back Profit
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In June 2016, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the United Kingdom-based Time Out Group PLC (Time Out), had just taken the company through an initial...
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LangKomm Sweden: Traversing Middle East Politics
Management Case Study8.95View Details The in-coming Social Democrat-Green coalition government in Sweden cancelled a decades-long arms treaty with the Saudi Arabia, on the grounds of the latter's... -
LangKomm Sweden: Traversing Middle East Politics, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case RSM047 -
Midea Refrigerator: The "Go Global" Odyssey, Teaching Note
Global Business Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W17459. -
China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the U.S.
20.18View Details Not many Chinese companies open manufacturing facilities in the U.S., but automotive glass maker Fuyao is considering just that, in Harvard Business School... -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Not long after John, BeautifulCoffee's (BC) newly appointed producer partnership manager, began his evaluation of the business relationship between BC... -
World Trade Organization
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Explores the origins and workings of the World Trade Organization (WTO), focusing particular attention on the special challenges of trade liberalization... -
Gassled: Regulation Risk in Low-Risk Norway
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In April 2010, infrastructure fund Njord Gas Infrastructure AS bought ExxonMobil's 9.428% stake in Norwegian gas pipelines Gassled. Njord was interested... -
Time Out: A New Global Strategy to Bring Back Profit, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W17255. -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC221 -
Midea Refrigerator: The "Go Global" Odyssey
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details By 2016, Midea Refrigerator was one of the leading Chinese manufacturers and exporters of refrigerators. Yet despite its broad global product market,...
