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Embargoes Work - Just Not the Way We'd Hope
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Tech Giants, Taxes, and a Looming Global Trade War, Chinese Version
Global Business Digital ArticleDramatic tax shortfalls are inflaming governments' resentment about tech companies' soaring profits. -
Why the U.S. Trade Deficit Can Be a Sign of a Healthy Economy
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A Quick Review of 250 Years of Economic Theory About Tariffs
Global Business Digital ArticleEconomists agree: They're a bad idea. -
Trade Regionalization: More Hype Than Reality?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleExperts have been predicting a shift away from global trade, but recent data suggest otherwise. -
The Latest Supply Chain Disruption: Plastics
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA global shortage is impacting companies across every industry. -
Not Enough Companies Are Ready for Brexit, No Matter What Happens Next
Global Business Digital ArticleThe uncertainty is affecting every industry. -
The Element of Surprise Is a Bad Strategy for a Trade War
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Trump administration's tariffs are catching businesses off guard. -
New Economy's Troubling Trade Gap
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Tariffs Are the Wrong Way to Fight Unfair Trade Practices
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Has Trade with China Really Cost the U.S. Jobs?
Trade Digital ArticleThe political narrative doesn’t stand up to the research. -
Costly Bargain of Trade Promotion
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleOver the last decade, power in the retailing of packaged goods has shifted from manufacturers to wholesalers and sellers. One result has been an increase... -
The Exploding Business of Bartering
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleCompanies are bartering everything from cars to jet fuel to legal services. -
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. -
Banana War Maneuvers
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow Dole beat Chiquita by working around a restrictive EU trade policy instead of struggling against it. -
America's Uneasy History with Free Trade
Global Business Digital ArticleThe long decline - and sudden resurgence - of protectionism. -
Get More Out of Your Trade Shows
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleTrade show expenditures are the major form of organized marketing communications activity for many companies outside of efforts by their sales force and... -
Why Companies Shouldn't Be Allowed to Treat Their Diversity Numbers as Trade Secrets
Innovation & Entrepreneurship ResearchSome tech firms are going out of their way to avoid uncomfortable disclosures. -
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 State of Globalization in 2023
Globalization Digital ArticleData disproves the notion that the world has become more regionalized in recent years.
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Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case examines major challenges faced by Ten Thousand Villages Canada in 2013, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Ten Thousand... -
Price Cap: The UK's Efforts to Regulate Regional Distribution Companies
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details "There are occasions when matters go beyond satire and indeed beyond a joke. Things have become so ridiculous that the laughter is incredibly painful.... -
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 1933, President Herbert Hoover reviewed the past four years of his administration. He had met a stock market crash and a recession that worsened... -
Trade Restrictions and Hong Kong's Textiles and Clothing Industry
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Since 1974, the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) had been the systematic means for developed countries to restrict textiles and clothing imports from developing... -
Mavesa (B): International Strategy and Valuation Concerns, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Examines Mavesa's response to economic liberalization. Looks at Mavesa's efforts to expand into neighboring countries. Also looks at efforts to support... -
America's Budget Impasse, 2009-2022
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The United States has been a fiscal mess for years...at least since the financial crisis in 2009. This case describes the U.S. economy during the presidencies... -
The Specific Factors Model for Trade and Migration
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When proposing new or modified economic policies, it is important to understand the distributional implications of such policies. Do they potentially... -
Shaping the Future of Solar Power: Climate Change, Industrial Policy and Free Trade (Part B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details "Shaping the Future of Solar Power: Climate Change, Industrial Policy and Free Trade (Part B)," is the second of a two part case but may also be taught... -
Phillips Foods, Inc. - Introducing King Crab to the Trade
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details By 2006, Phillips Food Inc. had grown into one of the largest seafood businesses in the United States and was the number one U.S. brand for crab meat.... -
Kennedy and the Balance of Payments, Exercise Worksheet (Answers)
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A Framework to Think About Pollution: Externalities, Pollution Taxes, and Cap and Trade
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details It is an understatement to say that environmental challenges are attracting attention. Sustainability tops the list of challenges for the 21st century.... -
Earth's General Store: Balancing People, Planet, and Profit in Organic-Food Retailing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The owner and operator of two stores that sold organic groceries and fair-trade goods in Edmonton, Alberta was proud of what he had built; however he... -
To Reduce Unemployment, French President Macron Reforms the Labour Market
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case examines the reforms to the French labour code made by President Emmanuel Macron after his election in April 2017, essentially designed to loosen... -
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
Management Case Study8.95View Details Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade... -
Valley Farms International (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The partner describes some of the problems and issues involved in selling and exporting dairy cattle to a middle-east country. He must decide whether... -
Ferro Industries - Exporting Challenge in a Small Firm
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case deals with an exporting challenge faced by Ferro Industries (Ferro), a small enterprise within the steel industry in India. The company's manufacturing... -
Match and Mismatch: The Wahaha-Danone Dispute
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details China's leading beverage company, Hangzhou Wahaha Group (Wahaha), and the French beverage giant, Groupe Danone (Danone), formed a strategic Joint Venture... -
Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation Through Litigation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Brazil has just won a cotton case action against the U.S. cotton agriculture program at the World Trade Organization. What does this mean for future agricultural... -
COVID-19: The Global Shutdown
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In the first months of 2020, a pandemic overwhelmed the world. COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, spread from China and created a severe public... -
Ratification Politics and Preferential Trade Agreements: Malaysia and the CPTPP
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details What does the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) mean for a country like Malaysia? This case investigates the...
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Country Matters: Executives Weigh In on the Causes and Counter Measures of Counterfeit Trade
Global Business Digital ArticleIn this article, we present the findings of a study examining the exploding problem of counterfeit trade via the opinions of U.S. executives as compared... -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case examines major challenges faced by Ten Thousand Villages Canada in 2013, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Ten Thousand... -
Price Cap: The UK's Efforts to Regulate Regional Distribution Companies
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details "There are occasions when matters go beyond satire and indeed beyond a joke. Things have become so ridiculous that the laughter is incredibly painful.... -
Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities, Teaching Note
Global Business Digital ArticleTeaching Note for 709007. -
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 1933, President Herbert Hoover reviewed the past four years of his administration. He had met a stock market crash and a recession that worsened... -
Trade Restrictions and Hong Kong's Textiles and Clothing Industry
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Since 1974, the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) had been the systematic means for developed countries to restrict textiles and clothing imports from developing... -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC221 -
Embargoes Work - Just Not the Way We'd Hope
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLessons from Cold War-era HBR. -
The Food Crisis, Market Failures, and World 3.0
Sales & Marketing Audio20.18View Details Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE Business School professor and author of "World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It." -
Trade Restrictions and Hong Kong's Textiles and Clothing Industry, Teaching Note
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