International business

This package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:...

Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built...

A top-down approach doesn't work anymore.

The U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply...

A four-year, ten-nation study of the patterns of competitive success in leading countries concludes that companies achieve competitive advantage through...

In recent years, the practice of management has often felt like an exercise in putting out fires. Facing one social, environmental, and economic crisis...

Most business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden...

China and India, ancient allies and modern competitors, are rebuilding economic ties after almost five decades. Consequently, multinational companies face the most challenging—and potentially rewarding—business landscape ever.

What works in Stuttgart won't work in Shanghai.

They’re polite. They’re hardworking. So what do you do when your management methods just aren’t working?

It's going to be tough for the social media company to face off against an innovative Chinese giant.

No industrialized nation can be an economic island, yet Japan continues to behave like one. When foreign goods and services--such as food, airline tickets,...

Companies should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

I’m a huge fan of fusion cuisine — when a chef combines elements of, say, French and Mexican traditions — and recently I got to wondering: could multicultural teams learn to use the very best elements of different cultures represented on the team? Could they become fusion teams? It’s certainly not the norm! Most multicultural […]

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 […]

Although the Covid-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to...

Today’s greatest business opportunities, and also the greatest challenges we face, are global in nature and therefore demand leaders who are also global. But what does “global” really mean? The old mantra “think global, act local” is woefully inadequate to describe the complex realities global leaders face. Truly global leaders act as bridge builders, connectors […]

In Russia, citizens are cleaning up business and government.

Leaders of companies with operations in Russia share how they've navigated new and unexpected challenges during the war in Ukraine.

Back in the late 1970s, as a consultant to several Japanese computer giants, I read everything I could about Japanese business. It was all very interesting—interesting, but not particularly useful. When I became a line manager in 1981, I realized how little of what I’d read had any practical value. I couldn’t control interest rates, […]