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The U.S.–India Relationship Is Key to the Future of Tech
Globalization Digital ArticleAs tensions mount between China and the U.S., India’s role in global innovation — and who it partners with — becomes increasingly important. -
Geopolitics Are Changing. Venture Capital Must, Too.
Globalization Digital ArticleAs we shift away from the unique conditions that fueled global growth for the past 30 years, investors will need more capital — and more patience. -
Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer: Biggest Threat to World Is Rogue Actors – From Putin to Musk
Business and society Digital ArticleUnchecked power is dangerous in anyone’s hands. -
How Companies Can Navigate Today’s Geopolitical Risks
Risk management Digital ArticleThe rules of international business have changed. -
Has Trade with China Really Cost the U.S. Jobs?
Trade Digital ArticleThe political narrative doesn’t stand up to the research. - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Schneider Electric
Creating a Successful Plan to Electrify Transportation Infrastructure
Social and global issues ResearchBriefing Paper Sponsored By Schneider Electric -
What the Next Era of Globalization Will Look Like
Globalization Digital ArticleA Q&A with Rana Foroohar, a columnist at the Financial Times. -
Trade Regionalization: More Hype Than Reality?
Trade Digital ArticleExperts have been predicting a shift away from global trade, but recent data suggest otherwise. -
3 Obstacles to Globalizing a Digital Platform
Global strategy Digital ArticleAnd how to overcome them. -
The State of Globalization in 2022
Globalization Digital ArticleIts collapse has been vastly overstated, according to an analysis of international flows of trade, capital, information, and people. -
Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?
In addition to product costs and supplier choices, today’s managers need to consider geopolitics, logistics, sustainability, and suppliers’ health. -
Building a Globally Diverse Team Is Actually Getting Easier
Talent management Digital ArticleFive ways leaders can identify and recruit international talent. -
Spotting a Modern Business Crisis — Before It Strikes
Crisis management Big IdeaEight perspectives on how societal challenges are evolving, and what that means for companies. -
How to Build a Transparent Relationship with Your Suppliers
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt's the key to minimizing and mitigating supply-chain risks. -
How DHL Express Navigated the Pause — and Rebound — of Global Trade
Globalization Digital ArticleThree counterintuitive lessons in resilience. -
China’s New Innovation Advantage
Globalization SpotlightChina is achieving a new level of global competitiveness, thanks to its hyper-adaptive population. -
Understanding China
Globalization Magazine ArticleBusinesspeople and politicians in the West hold outdated beliefs about the second-largest economy in the world. This package reveals much that may surprise them. -
“Americans Don’t Know How Capitalist China Is”
Globalization SpotlightAn interview with Weijian Shan -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Globalization SpotlightNavigating your company’s future in China -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Globalization SpotlightThree fundamental misconceptions
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Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
Globalization of Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe new commercial reality is the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Technology,... -
Global Business Speaks English
Global Business Magazine ArticleLike it or not, English is the global language of business. Today 1.75 billion people speak English at a useful level--that's one in four of us. Multinational... -
The State of Globalization in 2022
Globalization Digital ArticleIts collapse has been vastly overstated, according to an analysis of international flows of trade, capital, information, and people. -
China’s New Innovation Advantage
Globalization SpotlightChina is achieving a new level of global competitiveness, thanks to its hyper-adaptive population. -
The State of Globalization in 2021
Globalization Digital ArticleTrade, capital, and information flows have stabilized, recovered, and even grown in the past year. -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
The Right Way to Manage Expats
International business Magazine ArticleSending executives abroad is expensive, but most companies don’t get much back for their money. Those that do follow three practices. -
When Culture Doesn’t Translate
Globalization Magazine ArticleHow to expand abroad without losing your company’s mojo -
The Dos and Don'ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data
Global Business Digital ArticleOvercome data gaps, biased data, and outdated numbers. -
The New Tools of Trade
Labor Magazine ArticleToday, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […] -
The Forgotten Strategy
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost of modern global strategy focuses on minimizing differences between countries. Perhaps it’s time to dust off approaches that exploit those differences as well. -
Work in the Future Will Fall into These 4 Categories
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIs your organization ready? -
After 20 Years, It's Harder to Ignore the Digital Economy's Dark Side
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleLooking back at a set of predictions from 1995. -
Growth as a Process
Globalization Magazine ArticleGeneral Electric is bending every waking effort to an audacious aim—to grow organically two to three times faster than world GDP. Pursuing that goal, the company has invented a whole new set of management methods. -
Globalization's Year of Turbulence and Uncertainty
Global Business Digital ArticleI think the biggest globalization story of 2008 will be the replacement of the bland certainty that the world is quickly becoming "one" with a somewhat... -
The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door
Global Business Magazine ArticleHow will the logic of globalization change for corporations from countries such as India, China, Indonesia, Brazil, and Turkey if the growth opportunities... -
Globalization's Year of Uncertainty and Turbulence (Part 2)
Global Business Digital ArticleI'm just settling down from a trip to Davos and I'm thinking about some of the things I wrote just one month ago and how much has changed and stayed the... -
Amway’s President on Reinventing the Business to Succeed in China
Government Magazine ArticlePhotography: Courtesy of Amway The Idea: After the Chinese government outlawed direct selling, Amway repeatedly revised its business model to build a reputation as an honorable corporate citizen. In 2006 it received a new license, and China is now its largest market. When the Chinese government outlawed direct selling, in 1998, Amway was already well […]
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2018)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Spotify reached $3 billion in revenues in 2016, amid a booming music-streaming market that now made up 51% of the U.S. music industry's total revenues.... -
Francisco de Narvaez at Tia: Selling the Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In January 1999, Francisco de Narvaez sold Tia, his family's retail business in Argentina. De Narvaez reflects on the decision to sell and the selling... -
IBM: Building with Blockchain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details IBM needed a win. Facing flattening sales and increasing analyst concerns, the century-old giant that had reinvented itself so often before was in search... -
FDI in China, Spanish Version
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... -
Ant Financial (C), Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech "Unicorn." The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals... -
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Green Bank of the Philippines was known for its product innovation and its ability to bring new products to market. In 2002, Green Bank designed an untested... -
Nature Conservancy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Almost immediately upon being appointed CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Steve McCormick undertakes a radical reorganization of this global institution.... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic... -
China or the World? A Financial Reporting Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2010, the case discusses the strategic directions Hong Kong could pursue, particularly vis-a-vis China, as it seeks to preserve its preeminence... -
International Steel Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Profiles veteran investor Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.'s plan to turn around the aging steel assets of LTV, formerly America's second largest integrated steel... -
Wal-Mart, 2005, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Wal-Mart has been expanding, both domestically and internationally. Covers recent developments at Wal-Mart, including new stores, new store formats, and... -
Singapore's Public Enterprises
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Singapore has experienced exceptional economic success, lifting its self from third world to first world in fewer than four decades. Moreover, public... -
CIBA Vision: The Daily Disposable Lens Project (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Examines CIBA Vision's decision on whether to launch a major new R&D initiative to develop a low-cost, daily disposable contact lens, and how to organize... -
Wal-Mart in 2002
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In its first quarter of 2002, Wal-Mart became the largest company on the globe (by sales) and expanded into Japan. Was the giant retailer unstoppable?... -
General Electric Medical Systems--2002, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Discusses one of General Electric's flagship divisions--the world's leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment. Provides an opportunity... -
Fonterra: Taking on the Dairy World
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Fonterra was a cooperatively owned dairy company--New Zealand's largest company and the world's largest exporter of dairy products. To maintain its leadership,... -
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in... -
Li & Fung: Internet Issues (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case builds on the earlier A case which described the origins of the Turkish business group established by Vehbi Koç before 1988. This case takes... -
Should Business Influence the Science and Politics of Global Environmental Change? (A): The Oil Industry and Climate Change
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Case A: Presents three strategic options considered by a fictitious international oil and gas corporation to address the issue of climate change: fight...
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Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
Globalization of Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe new commercial reality is the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Technology,... -
Global Business Speaks English
Global Business Magazine ArticleLike it or not, English is the global language of business. Today 1.75 billion people speak English at a useful level--that's one in four of us. Multinational... -
The State of Globalization in 2022
Globalization Digital ArticleIts collapse has been vastly overstated, according to an analysis of international flows of trade, capital, information, and people. -
China’s New Innovation Advantage
Globalization SpotlightChina is achieving a new level of global competitiveness, thanks to its hyper-adaptive population. -
The State of Globalization in 2021
Globalization Digital ArticleTrade, capital, and information flows have stabilized, recovered, and even grown in the past year. -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
The Right Way to Manage Expats
International business Magazine ArticleSending executives abroad is expensive, but most companies don’t get much back for their money. Those that do follow three practices. -
When Culture Doesn’t Translate
Globalization Magazine ArticleHow to expand abroad without losing your company’s mojo