National competitiveness

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

Why Wall Street is wrong to worry about the impact on earnings per share.

As STEM jobs multiply, dealing with numbers will become more important.

Hardware startups are easier to launch than ever.

It's time to diversify.

Today, in the public mind at least, unemployment lines in Detroit have replaced the traditional belching smokestack as the symbol of the nation’s economy. Fueled by this grimness of mood, discussions of industrial policy in America have finally lost their innocence. Or perhaps it is fairer to say that the nation itself has lost its […]

When employees get home at a decent hour, everyone wins.

If you thought Brexit was bad…

Whatever happens in Washington, managers must stop scapegoating health care costs and start managing health care suppliers.

They don’t have as much impact as either critics or advocates believe.

China is starting to position itself as the reliable superpower.

The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal government will take in far less money than it spends--indefinitely....

Plus: bonus historical trivia about Richard Nixon and the gold standard.

The current worldwide economic crisis illustrates how global the economy has become. But are global markets creating globally minded companies? Bruce...

And why they might not be enough.

Across the United States, you can hear calls for us to revitalize our national competitiveness. But wait—who is “us”? Is it IBM, Motorola, Whirlpool, and General Motors? Or is it Sony, Thomson, Philips, and Honda? Consider two successful corporations: Corporation A is headquartered north of New York City. Most of its top managers are citizens […]

And it would be cheaper.

There's an upside to both outlooks.

To keep competition alive, we need new anti-trust laws.

Public expectations with regard to big-business enterprise are rising sharply, and business leaders must prepare themselves to meet this challenge. Big...

The case examines Málaga's evolution and its positioning as a smart city. It describes various strategic plans followed by the city, its strengths and...

Supplement to HKU759

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...

The World Trade Organization and NAFTA are reviewing the sweetener system and governmental sugar programs and their impact on world trade. What position...

Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He had to shift the culture of a country after the end of the apartheid...

The global beer industry took an unprecedented hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world, governments implemented restrictive coronavirus containment...

As shown with Psy's hit song, "Gangnam Style," K-Pop (Korean Pop) music has been successful recently, not only in Asia but also in many other countries....

How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David...

Provides an overview of the wide variety of organizations other than firms, government ministries and regulatory agencies, and universities that may have...

For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit,...

This compilation provides brief snapshots of climate action and its geographic and institutional context in 13 U.S. cities that send diverse participants...

Le Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A. (CSEM)--the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology--was a major nonprofit research...

Trade between China and Africa was estimated to have quadrupled between 2000 and 2008, with China becoming Africa's third-largest trading partner and...

The Indian software industry, growing at more than 50% per annum and largely dependent on exports of services and products, is one of the few industries...

In February 2013, the G-20 finance ministers met in Moscow, Russia to discuss the rising anxieties over a potential international currency war. It was...

Since being founded in 2006, Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. had emerged as a major player in India's fast-moving consumer goods sector. The company differentiated...

Supplement to case IN1271. The cases describe the development, worldwide launch, and subsequent marketing of a new pharmaceutical product which, although...

The theory of competitive advantage is one of the most widely accepted economic principles among economists. The theory, as well as substantial historical...

Alexandria Confectionery & Chocolate Company (trading as Corona), led by chief executive officer Shady Farid, grappled with a post-pandemic downturn in...

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

The case examines Málaga's evolution and its positioning as a smart city. It describes various strategic plans followed by the city, its strengths and...

Why Wall Street is wrong to worry about the impact on earnings per share.

Supplement to HKU759

As STEM jobs multiply, dealing with numbers will become more important.

Hardware startups are easier to launch than ever.

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Restoring American Competitiveness."

It's time to diversify.

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...