Globalization

Lessons from P&G's acquisition of Gillette.

A major shift is occurring in the nature of global competition, but it’s widely misunderstood. Emerging markets are no longer competing solely on price—by offering the lowest-cost manufacturing, for instance. Rather, they are increasingly competing with sophisticated skills in key sectors like health care, software, entertainment, consumer products, and manufacturing. They’re leveraging a fast-growing ability […]

According to a five-year study of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.

Changes in demand, market power, and business models are starting to produce surprising winners in big emerging markets.

Multinational companies are the driving force behind globalization, but they are also the source of many of its most painful consequences, including currency...

Global success requires that companies appreciate diversity and distance rather than seek to eliminate them.

Yang assumed the reins at Lenovo (formerly known as Legend) in 2001, when the company's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, moved on to become chairman. He served...

The emerging markets have cooled off lately, but they're still growing, even as the rest of the world shrinks. That's one reason why developing countries...

It's partly about outsourcing, partly about the skills shortage.

Companies and countries need to prioritize collaboration and transformation over competition and disruption.

Where momentum is picking up, and where it's stalling out.

Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving local needs with the economies of worldwide scale. Harvard Business...

Brexit serves as a useful case study.

Immigrants in developed countries who send money to and buy goods for relatives in the developing world are creating a vast new international market.

It's the key to minimizing and mitigating supply-chain risks.

A Q&A explores where your food comes from.

It is inevitable that prices don't always account for all the costs and benefits for all the people touched by a transaction. Externalities can come in...

The surprising global success of Spanish companies proves the value of good old-fashioned networking.

The new commercial reality is the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Technology,...

Four industry experts on how to adapt to the unprecedented challenges facing the industry.

This case is about a boutique chocolate manufacturer's decision to grow. Zotter, an Austrian company that was a pioneer in the organic and Fairtrade chocolate...

Proposed in 2012, Nord Stream 2 was a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea. Gazprom,...

Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe...

Should FIFA host its biggest event-the FIFA World Cup-every two years instead of every four, as it has been doing since the event's inception in the 1930s?...

In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel optimistic....

This case looks at the issues facing a Hong Kong-based trading company, which links hundreds of factories in India and Asia with major customers like...

This case explores the use of EVA--economic value added--methodology at Asahi Glass. EVA is among the changes initiated by the CEO aimed at transforming...

With a 10 year history of doing business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company...

The South Korean K-pop band, BTS, is shattering linguistic boundaries and reshaping the global music industry. BTS became the first band in Billboard...

In 2019, Ai Hua Ong, Group Chairperson, Asia Pacific of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), was ruminating over the choice of Singapore as the company's regional...

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. The pandemic brought production,...

Many countries have become increasingly concerned with the subject of corruption, and managers today must deal with changes in ethical norms and laws....

By 2009, China's exports had increased dramatically from $250 billion in 2000 to a projected $1,500 billion in 2009. This enormous growth of exports severely...

It was 30 December 2012, and Lee Kian Soon, the founder of Ezra Holdings Limited (Ezra), a Singapore-headquartered offshore oil and gas services company,...

This case explores the evolution of Nike's global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers'...

Hundreds of millions of people in China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil are eager to enter the marketplace. Yet multinational companies typically pitch...

Linktone was formed in September 1999 to develop text messaging applications and content for the Chinese market. Starting as a division within Intrinsic...

Vittorio Colao, CEO of telecommunication giant Vodafone, must respond to reports of disturbing accounting practices at two of Vodafone's operating companies....

The case focuses on Amanda Tremblay, a recent MBA with a technical background who was recruited by Citrine Software Solutions (CSS). CSS, based in Ottawa,...

Since the launch of ChatGPT, interest and investments in generative AI technologies have surged. Which players stand to gain the most from the growth...

This case is about a boutique chocolate manufacturer's decision to grow. Zotter, an Austrian company that was a pioneer in the organic and Fairtrade chocolate...

Proposed in 2012, Nord Stream 2 was a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea. Gazprom,...

International Economics: Understanding the Forces of Globalization for Managers is a 6-chapter book published in 2013 by the Business Expert Press and...

Teaching Note for INS674

Each Case Flash Forward provides educators and students with a brief, 2-3 page update of key changes at a particular company covered in a related case...

Many corporate venture capital initiatives (CVCs) do not deliver on their potential to bolster innovation. Research finds that these units often fit awkwardly...

Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe...

Should FIFA host its biggest event-the FIFA World Cup-every two years instead of every four, as it has been doing since the event's inception in the 1930s?...