International business

In fast-growing markets, women are getting ahead faster, too.

Tomorrow became a little distant from today in 2008. With the challenges facing businesses today–versus even six months ago–emerging leaders find little solace in the best practices that have worked so far. So what can help us cope with the challenges ahead? I have put together 10 mantras that might guide us ahead: 1. Listen […]

Is the diversity created by mass migration a good thing for economic growth? To find out, a pair of researchers mobilized a large-scale dataset on international...

How can American industry rebuild the skills and supplier bases required to produce advanced technologies? I am losing confidence that the solution lies in American companies overhauling, unaided, their management practices. A whole generation of managers has been imbued, over a period of more than 20 years, with the supposed virtues of global outsourcing, and […]

Hong Kong's protesters are unlikely to change any minds in Beijing.

There are plenty of reasons to be disappointed with the Copenhagen climate talks that start today: the meeting will not result in a binding agreement, the timeframe for such an agreement is potentially years away, and of course, neither the US nor China has committed to binding reductions. While all this is certainly disappointing, the […]

Career-oriented women are increasingly flexing their spending muscle. Here’s how companies can reach these “Golden Misses.”

Unions can make a pivotal contribution to competitiveness. In a world where business success increasingly depends on creating more flexible, team-based...

The survey also tracked the differences between Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

How to defend and expand its advanced industries.

The industry giant is creating shared value with African businesses, paving the way for others in the process.

For the first 40-plus years of their existence, the federal securities laws did not require or prohibit specific managerial practices in the operation of business, other than a business in one of a handful of closely regulated industries. But with the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the SEC is equipped to […]

Are you prepared?

John S. Reed, chairman and CEO of Citicorp, has never been reluctant to make waves. During his 25-year career with the most powerful bank in the United States, Reed has engineered radical change in a major operating group, built a lucrative new business from scratch, and played a high-visibility role in the pivotal issue of […]

Human suffering is certainly our main concern in the immediate aftermath of Japan’s 3/11 tragedy. But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing — and coping with — the long economic shadow cast by this disaster. The direct impact on real economic activity worldwide is already being felt. The destruction […]

Travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul. What’s perhaps less well-known is that they’re also good for the company. People who have international experience or identify with more than one nationality are better problem solvers and display more creativity, our research suggests. What’s more, we found that people with […]

The United States and United Kingdom may be, as Churchill said, two countries separated by the same language. Equally, however, the United Kingdom may be the best window Americans have onto the deliberately opaque landscape of the European Community. Sitting here in London, spiritually closer to Boston than to Brussels, it is easy for me […]

Pharma giant Pfizer recently announced a $350 million partnership with Biocon, one of Asia’s leading biotechnology companies. The deal gives Pfizer the exclusive rights to commercialize Biocon’s biosimilar versions of insulin. (For full disclosure: Dr. Prasad Kaipa, one of the authors, headed up the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management at the Indian School of Business […]

The scene is a conference room in the head office in Geneva of Universal Data Corporation’s European operations. The time is shortly after lunch on a winter day in 1977. Three men are finishing cups of coffee which have been served by a secretary. Seated at the head of the table is Clive Price, age […]

Russia invaded Ukraine just as pressures on the U.S. economy appeared to have peaked.