Managing International Trade and Investment: Casebook

by Spar, Debora L.

• ISBN13: 9781860942891
• ISBN10: 186094289X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive advantage; evaluating diverse political environments and legal structures; considering the impact of currency fluctuations and trading regimes; and understanding widely disparate cultures and business norms. Using the cases presented in this book, instructors can help their students build a framework of analysis that will enable them to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and master the opportunities these represent.

Author Biography

Debora Spar is the Spangler Family Professor at Harvard Business School

Table of Contents

Course Overview	p. vii
Firms in the Global Economy: The Fundamentals of Trade and Investment
Lenzing AG: Expanding in Indonesia (9-796-099)	p. 3
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993 (9-795-115)	p. 26
Japan's Automakers Face Endaka (9-796-030)	p. 44
Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes (9-288-018)	p. 62
The Rules of the Game: National Policy and Firm Response
Layton Canada (9-796-108)	p. 75
Note on Export Controls (9-384-008)	p. 88
Chiquita Brands International (A) (9-797-015)	p. 92
Toys "R" Us Japan (9-796-077)	p. 114
Note on Foreign Direct Investment (9-795-031)	p. 134
White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry (9-795-022)	p. 147
Note on Political Risk Analysis (9-798-022)	p. 172
Busang (A): River of Gold (9-798-002)	p. 184
Forever: DeBeers and U.S. Antitrust Law (9-700-082)	p. 208
Note on Rules (9-799-013)	p. 233
Rules of the International Level
Regarding NAFTA (9-797-013)	p. 259
Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A) (9-795-070)	p. 273
The Burma Pipeline (9-798-078)	p. 290
Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices (9-700-047)	p. 314
International Trade in the Age of Information
Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property (9-392-073)	p. 339
Being There: Sony Corporation and Columbia Pictures (9-795-025)	p. 368
BSkyB (9-798-077)	p. 389
Ruling the Net (HBR Reprint 96309)	p. 408
Network Associates: Securing the Internet (9-799-087)	p. 417
Singapore's Trade in Services (9-796-135)	p. 437
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