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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. -
Why the U.S. Trade Deficit Can Be a Sign of a Healthy Economy
Global Business Digital ArticlePlus: bonus historical trivia about Richard Nixon and the gold standard. -
Executives Need to Know How Trade Deals Shape Their Markets
Global Business Digital ArticleThink of them as strategic opportunities. -
Trade Regionalization: More Hype Than Reality?
Trade Digital ArticleExperts have been predicting a shift away from global trade, but recent data suggest otherwise. -
Choke Points
Global Business Magazine ArticleTo conduct international commerce, businesses have built an intricate system of networks that move money, information, and components around the world.... -
The U.S.-India Relationship Is Key to the Future of Tech
Global Business Digital ArticleAs tensions mount between China and the U.S., India's role in global innovation - and who it partners with - becomes increasingly important. -
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... -
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. -
A Quick Review of 250 Years of Economic Theory About Tariffs
Global Business Digital ArticleEconomists agree: They're a bad idea. -
Sell More with Smarter Trade Promotions
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleOne of the most difficult conversations a salesperson can have is with retail customers about trade promotion. The reason: there's big money at stake.... -
Commerce Secretary Pritzker on the Economy, Worker Training, and Trade with Asia
Global Business Digital ArticleThe challenges for workers and the opportunities for entrepreneurs. -
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... -
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. -
Shattering the Myths About U.S. Trade Policy
Global Business Magazine ArticleMany Americans blame free trade for their nation's economic slide, but the authors' research shows that free trade has been assigned a villainous role... -
What Trade Deals Are Good For
Global Business Digital ArticleThey don't have as much impact as either critics or advocates believe. -
Where Trump Does (and Doesn't) Have Leverage with China
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIt's in both countries' interests to keep trading. -
Has Trade with China Really Cost the U.S. Jobs?
Trade Digital ArticleThe political narrative doesn’t stand up to the research. -
Corporate Boards Are Pessimistic About Trade Between the U.S. and China
Global Business Digital ArticleAnd they're planning accordingly. -
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. -
Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer: Biggest Threat to World Is Rogue Actors - From Putin to Musk
Global Business Digital ArticleUnchecked power is dangerous in anyone's hands.
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Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details 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,... -
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7888 Following an A case that presents the dominant narrative around the causes and remedies for the Great Depression, this B case... -
China Supply Chain and COVID-19
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. The pandemic brought production,... -
India: Liberalize in the Face of Crisis?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In June 1991, India was in the midst of a currency and balance of payments crisis the likes the country had not seen since independence in 1947. The country's... -
China's Trade Disputes
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details 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... -
Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)-a massive free trade agreement between the United States, Japan and ten other Pacific nations-was a vital element... -
World Trade Center Redevelopment Negotiation - General Instructions
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Six-person facilitated negotiation among representatives of the city, state, developer, insurer, and victims' families regarding the redevelopment of... -
Kossan Rubber Industries Berhad: Stretching to its Maximum Potential through an Expansion Strategy
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Kossan is a publicly listed company in Malaysia that produces rubber gloves for industrial, medical and household uses. The industry is oligopolistic... -
Stalemate at the WTO: TRIPS, Agricultural Subsidies, and the Doha Round
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This note analyzes disputes over intellectual property enforcement and agricultural trade barriers at the center of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization... -
Morality or Protectionism? The U.S.-Antigua Internet Gambling Dispute in the WTO
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details When Jay Cohen started his online casino business in the twin-island Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda (hereafter referred to as Antigua), he was... -
One Belt One Road: Chinese Strategic Investment in the 21st Century
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details It is September 2013. The new Chinese President Xi Jinping will soon launch his tour in Central Asia. On this tour, the President is deciding whether... -
Midea Refrigerator: The "Go Global" Odyssey
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details By 2016, Midea Refrigerator was one of the leading Chinese manufacturers and exporters of refrigerators. Yet despite its broad global product market,... -
Charlene Barshefsky (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Details former U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky's strategic and tactical approach to surmounting the barriers laid out in the (A) case. -
Valley Farms International (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The partner continues to export cattle to a middle-eastern country but must decide whether to give in to the demands of an airline crew. They are demanding... -
General Mills Board and Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Examines the General Mills Board of Directors' role in the General Mills joint venture with Nestle S.A. to sell cereals outside of North America. It raises... -
FDI in China
Global Business Case Study11.95View 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... -
Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in the European Union
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Brazil's secretary of trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, Pedro de Camargo Neto, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the... -
Evolving Trends in Global Trade
Communication Case Study8.95View Details The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade from the period after World War II to developments... -
Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Nord Stream 2, a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea, was a critical project for Gazprom,...
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Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details 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,... -
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7888 Following an A case that presents the dominant narrative around the causes and remedies for the Great Depression, this B case... -
Economic Growth, Convergence, and Trade
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInternational Economics: Understanding the Forces of Globalization for Managers is a 6-chapter book published in 2013 by the Business Expert Press and... -
China Supply Chain and COVID-19
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. The pandemic brought production,... -
India: Liberalize in the Face of Crisis?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In June 1991, India was in the midst of a currency and balance of payments crisis the likes the country had not seen since independence in 1947. The country's... -
Habitual Chocolate: Expansion Opportunities, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W16729. -
China's Trade Disputes
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details 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... -
The First Opium War and Global Free Trade, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note to case 722052 -
Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)-a massive free trade agreement between the United States, Japan and ten other Pacific nations-was a vital element... -
World Trade Center Redevelopment Negotiation - General Instructions
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Six-person facilitated negotiation among representatives of the city, state, developer, insurer, and victims' families regarding the redevelopment of...