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The Latest Supply Chain Disruption: Plastics
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Preferential Treatment: The New Face of Protectionism?
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America's Uneasy History with Free Trade
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Tech Giants, Taxes, and a Looming Global Trade War
Global Business Digital ArticleDramatic tax shortfalls are inflaming governments' resentment about tech companies' soaring profits. -
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... -
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... -
Commerce Secretary Pritzker on the Economy, Worker Training, and Trade with Asia
Global Business Digital ArticleThe challenges for workers and the opportunities for entrepreneurs. -
Why Trump and Xi's 90-Day Trade Truce Is a Step in the Right Direction
Global Business Digital ArticleThe audible, global sigh of relief is justified. -
Has Trade with China Really Cost the U.S. Jobs?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe political narrative doesn't stand up to the research. -
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. -
Banana War Maneuvers
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow Dole beat Chiquita by working around a restrictive EU trade policy instead of struggling against it. -
Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret
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If the U.S. Gets into a Trade War with the EU, It Will Lose an Ally in Pressuring China
Global Business Digital ArticleThe case against auto tariffs. -
Tariffs Are the Wrong Way to Fight Unfair Trade Practices
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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.... -
How Trade Secrets Hurt Innovation
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It's Time to Rethink Your Global Logistics
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThe pandemic has overloaded companies' usual shipping networks. -
The State of Globalization in 2023
Globalization Digital ArticleData disproves the notion that the world has become more regionalized in recent years. -
The Exploding Business of Bartering
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleCompanies are bartering everything from cars to jet fuel to legal services. -
Trade Regionalization: More Hype Than Reality?
Trade Digital ArticleExperts have been predicting a shift away from global trade, but recent data suggest otherwise.
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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... -
Valley Farms International (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Valley Farms International (VFI) describes some of the problems and issues involved in selling and exporting dairy cattle to a middle-east country. The... -
Transcend Coffee: Local Sustainability Challenges in a Global Industry
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2014, Transcend Coffee-an independent coffee shop and coffee bean roaster with several locations in Edmonton, Alberta-was selling premium coffee to... -
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 1980, the city of Kunshan was mere countryside, registering neither on the Chinese government's nor the international business community's radar. By... -
Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of... -
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... -
China: To Float or Not to Float? (B): Timeline of Changes Relevant to the Chinese Renminbi
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details On July 21, 2005 China revalued its decade-long quasi-fixed exchange rate of approximately 8.28 yuan per U.S. dollar by 2.1% to 8.11% and, at the same... -
TRIPS Part II: International Trade meets Public Health: TRIPS and Access to Medicines, Abridged
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This is an abridged version of case NR15-04-1736.0. The Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO)... -
Globalization Past, 1850-1914 (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details On the evening of 3 August 1914, British Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Grey contemplated whether to advice King and Parliament to declare war on Germany... -
Kimura K.K.: Can This Customer Be Saved?
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Pramtex, an Australian company established in 1985, was one of the emerging star players in optical disk production equipment. Known for its high-quality... -
Japan: The Miracle Years
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Japan experienced rapid growth in the 1950s and 1960s while following a set of policies that differ from current policies in fashion. Although some observers... -
Conceptual Overview: Managing International Trade and Investment
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI), an elective course for second-year MBA students, approaches international business issues from an... -
Ethiopia: An Emerging Market Opportunity?
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Ethiopia: An Emerging Market Opportunity? case centers on the potential and challenges of entering an emerging market. It provides a brief overview... -
General Mills Board and Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View 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... -
A Theory of GATT/WTO
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This note provides a few basic facts about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). We... -
The U.S. Current Account Deficit
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Investors and policymakers throughout the world were confronted with the risk of painful economic consequences arising from the large U.S. current account... -
Brcko and the Arizona Market
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details Explores the role of the U.S. military in facilitating the establishment of a spectacularly successful free trade area in one of the most devastated areas... -
China Versus Japan: On the Verge of a Trade War
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In April 2001, Japan curbed imports on three Chinese farm products--fresh shiitake mushrooms, rushes for grass mats, and Chinese onions. In retaliation,... -
The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition
Global Business Case Study15.05View Details In May 2019, amidst of an ever-worsening trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump added Chinese telecom giant Huawei to the Department... -
Cap and Trade in Ontario: Campbell Soup Company
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for product W18559.
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What Leaders Need to Know About a Looming Recession - and Other Global Threats
Finance & Accounting Audio20.18View Details A conversation with economist Nouriel Roubini about what lies ahead. -
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... -
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 -
Valley Farms International (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Valley Farms International (VFI) describes some of the problems and issues involved in selling and exporting dairy cattle to a middle-east country. The... -
Transcend Coffee: Local Sustainability Challenges in a Global Industry
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2014, Transcend Coffee-an independent coffee shop and coffee bean roaster with several locations in Edmonton, Alberta-was selling premium coffee to... -
The Latest Supply Chain Disruption: Plastics
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA global shortage is impacting companies across every industry. -
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. -
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 1980, the city of Kunshan was mere countryside, registering neither on the Chinese government's nor the international business community's radar. By... -
What do Firms From Transition Economies Want From Their Strategic Alliance Partners?
Global Business Digital ArticleA financial system engaged in active transition from central planning to free market may be dubbed a transition economy. On today's global landscape,... -
Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of...