2nd book in series from a panel of international experts, volume examines forces and dynamics of globalization in China, South Korea, Japan, and Australia; the intnl monetary system after the Euro; Latin American corporate strategy; transnational & subnational pressures in the Russian transition; and mediating globalization & social integration in post-Communist societies.

Drawing together a panel of international experts, the volume examines pertinent issues such as: Globalization and Federalism; Monetary Policy in a Globalized World; Environmental Regulations and the Global Strategies of Multinational Enterprises; and Globalization and Telecommunication Policy.

This paper uses cross-national data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions.

Frank Dobbin, Carola Frege, and Michio Nitta have given us a set of intriguing and learned essays, each focusing on how the social sciences are embedded in disparate cultural and legal matrixes in Europe, Japan, and the United States. While they focus on different topics and different kinds of explanations, their conclusions"”that there is a universal social science tradition as well as distinctive national variants of it"”are similar.

IB education & research became institutionlized in leading US business schools in the 1960s. One of the most influential business schools & one of the first to develop an IB department was Indiana Univ. (IU). The leadership of IU in the developments in the field of IB is assessed; the influence of IU on major associated fields of research & teaching (finance, marketing, & management) is assessed; recent research themes in these fields are explored. The book develops several overlapping themes: the process of internatinalization within business schools, the experience as a leader, the extent to which IB has been effectively infused in key functional areas of traditional business education, the current state of knowledge about IB research, & new issues in IB research. The book extends the key theme about the historical development of IB & the intn'l aspects of research & teaching in marketing & finance are considered. Several papers present state-of-the-art literature reviews & extensions of current research issues in intn'l management strategy. Issues in global, regional & sub-national strategy are considered & serve to place the earlier historical discussion of IB in context.

Selected papers first presented at the Canada-United States Business Conference held at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, on April 11-12, 2003. The set of 18 chapters in this book are grouped into 3 major sections. Part I deals with regional economic integration in North America, including papers on the strategies of multinational enterprises and exporting firms. Part II deals with financial integration in North America and the issues of a common currency. Specific industry sectors and issues of public policy across the Canada-U.S. border are examined in Part III. Key issues of current interest and concern examined include: cross border trade & security; NAFTA at age 10; & the impact of the FTAA on NAFTA; the FTAA & civil society. Key policy areas discussed included regulation, labor mobility, productivity, & specific sectoral issues. In addition to this examination of key issues, authors also explore managerial and public policy implications of their findings. ISBN 0762310944

What does it take to be a leader in a global economy? In the face of the current worldwide economic slump and recent international upheaval, this question has become increasingly difficult to answer. This volume explores the role of leadership in light of globalization and changing economies. With the help of renowned experts like Rosabeth Moss Kanter and C. K. Prahalad, readers will learn how to be strong leaders in an unpredictable world.

This paper addresses and explores a number of factors have resulted in the current trend towards work-force reductions on a global scale. Corporate downsizing throughout the United States and Europe can be traced to increased international competition, rapid technology innovation, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and organization restructuring of firms.

Journal Article by Phillip Bryson

The objectives of this study are to estimate the economic impact of over-invoiced/under-invoiced Russian imports/exports from/to the U.S and to determine if capital movement/capital flight through trade is due to money laundering, tax evasion or some sort of portfolio consideration.

Journal Article written by Bruce Money

Journal Article written by Ronald Schill

In spring of 2003, ten teams of MAP students were selected to work on a special project (xMAP) with Prof. C.K. Prahalad (Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business), to document how companies across the world were working successfully to provide products and services and improve the living conditions of the poorest of the poor. Along with written case studies, each team also produced a video documentary of the companies and the people they serve. The cases and videos created have helped change global development policy at the State Department, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"Business Education in Emerging Market Economies" discusses the impact of business education on emerging markets and explores curricular innovation, pedagogical approaches, and strategic alliances in the context of industrializing economies. Emerging markets contain 80% of the world's population and some 75% of its trade growth in the foreseeable future, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The potential economic growth of these emerging markets has prompted a need to understand their dynamics, business institutions and educational systems. Many American universities, for example, have responded to the demand of their students and business partners by educating them about the exciting opportunities and lurking threats in these industrializing economies. This book contains multiple chapters designed to educate American students about the curricular innovations and course development occurring in emerging markets.

In this research I suggest that an entrepreneurial orientation (E/O) is to an extent a strategic response to a complex set of institutional environment and firm factors. Utilizing survey responses from 1,691 small to medium-sized manufacturing and service enterprises (SMEs) from seven countries and a wide range of macroeconomic, legal, cultural and risk measures I test the study assumptions. The results suggest that entrepreneurial behavior, behavior that is more innovative, proactive and risk taking, is significantly associated with specific attributes of the institutional environment of the firm as well as the perceptions that firm leaders have of that environment and the resources available to the firm for responding to environmental conditions.

Manufacturers often face a choice of whether to recover the value in their end-of-life products through remanufacturing. In many cases, firms choose not to remanufacture, as they are (rightly) concerned that the remanufactured product will cannibalize sales of the higher-margin new product. However, such a strategy may backfire for manufacturers operating in industries where their end-of-life products (cell phones, tires, computers, automotive parts, etc) are attractive to third-party remanufacturers, who may seriously cannibalize sales of the original manufacturer. In this paper, we develop models to support a manufacturer's recovery strategy in the face of a competitive threat on the remanufactured product market.

We examine the size, profitability, growth and survivability during 1980 to 1999 of new lists located in the countries of the Pacific Basin. Because the countries in this region are evenly distributed between civil and common law regimes, we are also able to examine the impact of the legal environment on post-listing behavior. We find that new lists are more numerous in common law countries, but they are smaller than seasoned firms, regardless of legal regime. We determine that new lists are more profitable in civil law countries, but note that this result is driven by the high profitability of Japanese new lists. New lists tend to grow faster than seasoned firms, with new lists in civil law countries growing faster more quickly than those incorporated in common law nations. Finally, we observe higher rates of survivability among Asian new lists compared to those reported for U.S. firms.

In this paper, we extend the results of Ferguson on an end-product manufacturer's choice of when to commit to an order quantity from its parts supplier. During the supplier's lead-time, information arrives about end-product demand. This information reduces some of the forecast uncertainty. While the supplier must choose its production quantity of parts based on the original forecast, the manufacturer can wait to place its order from the supplier after observing the information update. We find that a manufacturer is sometimes better off with a contract requiring an early commitment to its order quantity, before the supplier commits resources. On the other hand, the supplier sometimes prefers a delayed commitment. The preferences depend upon the amount of demand uncertainty resolved by the information as well as which member of the supply chain sets the exchange price. We also show conditions where demand information updating is detrimental to both the manufacturer and the supplier.

Characterized by new analytical insights and methods in the field of international business, this collection of articles by Alan Rugman and Alain Verbeke celebrates their long and productive work together on issues facilty top managers of multinational enterprises.

The Journal is recognized as the pre-eminent academic journal in the rapidly expanding field of Asian business studies. It serves as a unique means of communicating new ideas and analysis across different academic disciplines, between scholars and businesspeople, and among contributors and subscribers from all over the world. In scope, it covers all of Asia, focusing on business, management, economics, political economy, economic and business history, development studies, and comparative and cross-cultural studies of relevance to the dynamic world of Asian business. In addition to scholarly articles dealing with all aspects of business in Asia, the Journal also published research reports, conference reports, reviews of books and other educational materials, interviews with and addresses by business leaders in Asia, and information on electronic data sources. Once a year, the Journal also publishes a special issue, devoted to exploring a single topic in greater depth. Recent special issues have included the Evolution of Asian Business Systems, Human Resource Management in Asia, and Overseas Chinese Business Networks. The Journal is released three times per year.

we explained why the UREs emerged, prevailed, and eventually began to decline in China. Furthermore, via the concept of "absorptive capacity," we extended the conceptual framework to make it possible to address the "knowledge industrialization (or forward engineering)" along with "reverse engineering," and "inter-firm learning," which are distinct strategies for technological catch-up.

Although many firms label themselves "global", very few handle worldwide sales and operations. This book demonstrates that most multinationals are in fact strongly regional and that only a tiny percentage of the world's top 500 companies sells and/or delivers globally. Alan Rugman exposes the facts behind the popular myths of doing business globally, explores a variety of regional models and offers an authoritative agenda for future business strategy.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Alabama can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Georgia can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Mississippi can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which North Carolina can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Alabama can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Innovation and technology clusters have become one of the key success factors of world-class regions in their search for manufacturing and R&D foreign direct investment. This paper constitutes a preliminary effort to canvass the existing resource base and platform from which Tennessee can leverage its relative competitive advantages in key technologies that are likely to drive the technological race at the dawn of the twenty first century. This paper therefore allows the reader to begin defining the rough outlines of a competitive profile, conceivably instrumental in crafting a state-level strategy for foreign direct investment targeting.

Financial media is replete with stories of "culture clashes" marring M&A deals. We investigate the effect of cultural distance on long-term performance of acquisitions by studying cross-border acquisitions. We explore different factors affecting the long-term performance of cross-border M&A with a special focus on cultural distance between the countries of the two firms. Using a sample of over 400 cross-border acquisitions in the period 1991-2000, we find that contrary to general perception, cross-border acquisitions perform better in the long-run if the acquirer and the target come from countries that are culturally more disparate. We use the Hofstede measure of cultural dimensions to define cultural distance and also examine alternative measures such as language, religion and legal origin to capture cultural differences. The positive "cultural distance effect" persists after controlling for several deal-specific variables and country-level economic variables and corporate governance; and is robust to alternative specifications and horizons of long-term performance. Among deal characteristics, cash acquisitions tend to perform better in the long-run.

Several prominent policy panels have recently recommended the introduction of an administrative post-grant review system to the U.S. patent system. We assess the impact of a post-grant review system in the U.S. patent system by studying the "opposition career" of equivalents of litigated U.S. patents and of a control group of patents in Europe. After matching the U.S. patents with their EP and German equivalents, we find that approximately 30 percent of US-granted patents for which applications are filed at the European Patent Office (EPO) are not granted patent protection. Furthermore, the opposition rate for equivalents of litigated patents is about four times higher than for control group equivalents, and that outright revocation of the patent occurs in 25-39% of the cases. . We also calculate a range of welfare benefits expected from adopting a post-grant review and show that society's gain could be sizeable. Taken together, our results provide strong evidence that the United States could benefit substantially from adopting an administrative post-grant patent review.

"Anti-incumbency" is a familiar refrain among politicians and journalists around election time. In this paper, we attempt to empirically detect and analyze incumbency effects in Lok Sabha elections in India. We define incumbency effects as the change in the proportion of votes polled by an incumbent party candidate from that in the previous election in a particular constituency. We show that Indian elections are frequently marked by a constituency-level anti-incumbency effect. However, regarding the effect on votes polled by a "ruling party at centre" candidate, there is no consistent pattern over time. Being in power at the centre may act for or against a party or leave it unaffected at the polls.

We study international market entry in the context of the Internet, and ask: On what basis do U.S. Internet firms choose the markets that they enter? Our baseline hypothesis is that international market entry decisions are based on balancing perceived risks and returns inherent in a foreign target market. In addition, firms in the Internet sector face somewhat unique challenges when expanding abroad. Drawing on a sample of close to 7,000 country entry decisions undertaken by 179 U.S. Internet firms, we find that country risk, cultural distance, and uncertainty avoidance reduce the likelihood international market entry, while individualism and masculinity increase the probability of market entry. In general, the size of the international market moderates these relationships by weakening the negative effects, while strengthening the positive effects.

Clusters have been under study by researchers across the world as a new way of developing entrepreneurial firms that lead to new job creation and significant increases in local wealth. Many local, regional, state and country governments also now use either cluster development or their presence as an economic development tool by encouraging new small firm entrants into established or growing markets. The authors have observed that few studies survey existing firms about the nature of the presumed cluster they operate in and the impact of its presence on their firm development and growth. This study reports on the results of a UK/US study of wholesale and retail firms.

Anti-Americanism in Brazil

The Growing Importance of Study Abroad and Suggestions for Establishing Successful Programs

On the 30th anniversary of the G8, the responsibility for hosting the Summit falls into the hands of an allegedly unilateralist America, still reeling from the shock of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, the resulting economic recession, and the bitter divisions with its NATO allies and disappointments with the United Nations institutions over the 2003 Iraq war. This book addresses the core question of why America needs the G8. It offers new perspectives on the Group of Eight major market democracies, quite different than the prevailing ones which see the G8 either as a forum for partners to bind a unilateralist, hegemonic America, or for American-centered financial and corporate interests to impose a world order in their interest on the world. In contrast, this work suggests that a now vulnerable America might need the G8 as a central instrument of foreign policy to achieve its security, economic and political interests in the world, and shape the twenty-first century global order it wants. ISBN 0 7546 4477 4

Technology, communication and, most importantly, the Internet have made trade in services a global and nearly seamless phenomenon. Organizations in the developed countries, especially the United States, have taken advantage of this evolutionary change to integrate organizational processes by sourcing services across borders. The strong growth in the service sector, coupled with the tendency of U.S. firms to move service activities to cheaper, more efficient locations, has resulted in the recent acceleration of this trend. The increase in the offshoring of service activities and fears about the resulting migration of American jobs overseas will continue to draw nationwide attention.

The resource based view of the firm would seem to suggest that for SMEs the greater their internal resource capacity and the greater the level of external resources available in the environment the less likely the SME will be to form strategic alliances. In this research we explore these relationships and suggest that it is a complex interaction between SME resources, resource needs and environmental munificence that determines the likelihood that an SME will form an alliance. In specific we view the interaction between firm size and the level of national R&D intensity in determining the likelihood that an SME will form an R&D alliance. The study hypotheses are tested utilizing over 2000 completed surveys from SMEs in eight countries.

Gavin Boyd has brought together a distinguished group of experts on the nature and extent of transatlantic policy coordination and its implication for corporate strategy. This remarkably relevant set of papers offers a discussion on the economic and financial linkage between Europe and North America, as well as the trade and investment rules governing this interaction.

This pioneering book offers a unique constellation of essays focused on the important social and economic changes affecting educational institutions in China. It provides an in-depth examination of the potential and obstacles for business and management education in the world's second largest economy and most populated country. This volume is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in teaching, developing a new program, or entering into a joint venture in China. A wide range of topics, such as economic transition, pedagogical issues, professional training and alliance formation, are discussed from the standpoint of deans, educators, directors and consultants of educational institutions hailing from both the East and the West.

Funded by Purdue Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the Purdue Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures annually publishes "Global Business Languages." Volume Ten contains eleven articles written by leading language pedagogy researchers from major universities that discuss innovative practices and perspectives in business language education.

This research volume includes a synthesis of recent advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise (ME), with a focus on internalization and international diversification (ID) issues. It proposes important extensions of ME theory, especially as regards the importance of geography to multinational strategy, and the linkages between internalization and ID. The book also introduces the study of various new topics in IB research, namely regional (as opposed to global) strategy analysis, global alliances that lead to alliance specific advantages, and environmental aspects of international strategy.

Taking a regional approach, this text challenges some of the underlying assumptions behiind globalization and focuses on both the dominant economies-the EU, the U.S. and Japan-as well as emerging markets, such as Brazil, India and China. The book also integrates analysis of the competitive environment and the internal resources of the firm to provide a strategic view of international business.

This volume explores the drivers of cross-border trade and the forces underlying the expansion of the border from the nation to the regional trade area. The findings cast some doubts on the practicality of striving for a more globalized trade system through costly and time-consuming trade rounds populated by a myriad of players and their agendas and conflicts.

Article will appear in Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting Volume 17, No. 3, Autumn, 2006

This report annually provides a comprehensive examination of business conditions in Latin America, a 33-country region comprising a global market of nearly 500 million inhabitants. The 50-page report combines text and tables to track socio-economic trends and analyze recent developments that currently shape the outlook for Latin American markets. Within the context of the report, the business environment consists of government policies regulating economics and business, global and regional external impacts on Latin America and internal Latin American economic, social and political conditions.

The focus of this study is ranking the market potential of 27 countries identified as an "Emerging Market" by The Economist magazine. The index, which has been published annually on globalEDGE by MSU-CIBER since 1995, uses a number of market growth indicators to determine the attractiveness of emerging markets. The on-line, interactive rankings allow users to rank emerging markets on the basis of any of the eight dimensions comprising the overall index, thus allowing for extensive customization.

Overview of San Diego State University's 2006-07 accomplishments in international business education, research, and outreach.

On paper, the Dominican Republic is one of most dynamic countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Last year the economy of this country of 9 million people, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, expanded at 10 percent. Politically the Dominican Republic is seen as one of the region's most stable democracies. To add to the allure, a free-trade agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA) took effect in March. This is good news for Florida since the Dominican Republic is one of our leading trading partners.

The Latin American Business Environment Report (LABER) is a one of a kind publication that presents in a single document a straightforward, balanced appraisal of the economic, social, and political events in the past year that have shaped the business and investment climate in Latin America as a region and in its 18 most important economies. The LABER is a publication of the Latin American Business Environment Program in the Center for Latin American Studies. The program draws on the expertise and resources of the University of Florida to prepare students for careers related to Latin American business through degree programs, training courses and study abroad opportunities. It also organizes topical conferences, promotes the publication of scholarly research and provides professional consulting services for the business community and public.

an update of SDSU CIBER activities for the 2007-08 academic year

Single family offices (SFO) are professional organizations dedicated to managing the personal fortunes and lives of very wealthy families. Since the beginning, affluent families have been attracted to SFOs because of their promise of exclusivity, privacy and customization. These characteristics may make SFOs increasingly attractive to the super rich, but they also make it particularly difficult for researchers to understand their operations, their abilities, and their achievements. The very confidentiality they afford impedes assessment of their competence, and there is little comparative information available on the range and key differentiators among SFOs operating today. This report begins to fill this knowledge gap by presenting the results of an international pilot study of SFOs responsible for managing at least US$100 million in investable assets in the Americas, Europe, and Rest of the World (RoW). The research has been conducted during 2006"“2007 and is intended to survey the landscape of single family offices.

Volume 22, Nos. 2-3, Volume 23, No. 1. A special three-issue edition addressing the following themes: Chinese Conceptions of Knowledge in Historical Perspective, Socio-Cultural Specifics of Managing Knowledge in Asian Contexts, Value-Creating Knowledge Management as Organizing Vision, and Knowledge Leadership in Asia. We are currently welcoming manuscripts for our next edition; please email JournalAsianBusiness@umich.edu to submit or for more information.

In this Benchmark Study, data from 428 of the 1,195 community colleges in the U.S. provide answers to a multitude of questions regarding international business education (858 faculty and administrators participated in the study). A newly created IBEX score (International Business Education Index) provides benchmarks for community colleges. It consists of five "pillars" that are critically important to strategically implement international business education programs and activities. The pillars are: Strategic Commitment, Program Offerings, Organizational Infrastructure, Funding, and Investment in Faculty. The study was conducted by Michigan State University and Lansing Community College with funding from a Title VIB grant by the U.S. Department of Education.

UF-CIBER Annual Report

This annual report, written by CIBER Associate Director Terry McCoy, provides a comprehensive examination of Latin American business conditions. It tracks social, political and economic trends both for the entire region and its 20 largest markets individually.

For the past two decades, the Advances in International Marketing series has made unique contributions to the field of international marketing through original and high-quality essays that address various international marketing topics. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are included. While some contributors focus on managerial issues in international marketing, others take a public policy or a comparative perspective. Similarly, while some authors may confine their analyses to well-established concepts or methodologies in international marketing, others have the opportunity to incorporate new and innovative perspectives.

Prepared as part of the University of Florida/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department research project on Cuban agriculture in conjunction with funding support from the University of Florida Center for International Business Education and Research.

This annual report, written by CIBER Associate Director Terry McCoy, provides a comprehensive examination of Latin American business conditions. It tracks social, political and economic trends both for the entire region and its 20 largest markets individually.

UF-CIBER Annual Report

Sovereign Wealth Funds, the large investment funds supported by governments, are mostly a positive economic force that can provide a shot in the arm to the companies -- and countries -- they invest in. They are also a stabilizing force for the nation where the investment originates. Those are some of the main takeaways from a new study, "The Brave New World of Sovereign Wealth Funds," conducted by Wharton MBA students and sponsored by the Wharton Leadership Center and the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies. The research suggests there is little reason to worry about these funds acting from political rather than economic motives. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton management professor Mauro F. Guillén, who helped to oversee the research, and two Wharton MBA candidates present some of the study's key findings.

Penn Lauder CIBER provided funding to Wharton Management Department Professors Heather Berry, Mauro Guillen, and PhD candidate, Nan Zhou for their study on the impact of cross-national distance within the field of management and international business. Following recent institutional theorizing in the field of international business, they approach cross-national distance from an institutional perspective so as to capture the rich diversity of ways in which countries differ. Armed with a multi-dimensional definition and empirical operationalization of distance, they argue that we can better understand when and why different types of distance have either a positive or negative impact on managerial decisions, country trade patterns, or even political relationships across countries

In this series of benchmarking studies, institutional-level data from 2008 (n=428), 2009 (n=336), and 2010 (n=309) - from a sampling frame consisting of the roughly 1,200 community colleges in the U.S.- provide answers to a multitude of questions regarding international business education (about two faculty and/or administrators participated per institution each year). An IBEX (International Business Education Index) score provides benchmarks for community colleges. It consists of five "pillars" that are important to strategically implement international business education programs and activities at community colleges. They are: Strategic Commitment, Program Offerings, Organizational Infrastructure, Funding, and Investment in Faculty. The study was conducted by Michigan State University and Lansing Community College with funding from Title VIB grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

This annual report, written by CIBER Associate Director Terry McCoy, provides a comprehensive examination of Latin American business conditions. It tracks social, political and economic trends both for the entire region and its 20 largest markets individually.

Nearly two years after the financial meltdown of September 2008, is the global economy any less risky? Or do the conditions that led to the crisis still persist? These questions and more were at the heart of a conference titled, "Global Risk: New Perspectives and Opportunities," organized at Wharton by Penn Lauder CIBER (Center for International Education and Research) and Santander Universities. The consensus: We managed to respond to the immediate threats, but the longer-term drivers of instability are still active.

To download the full report: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/072011_GlobalRisk_Book.pdf
Or: http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/pdf/Global%20TrendLab%202011%20Global%20Risk.pdf
 

The financial meltdown of 2008-2009 and the resulting global recession dealt a painful blow to private equity investing, and the industry is still recovering. In this special report, based on the 2011 Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference, Knowledge@Wharton examines the industry’s gradual comeback.

To download entire PDF: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/062711_PrivateEquity2011.pdf

or http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special_section.cfm?specialID=114

Nearly two years after the financial meltdown of September 2008, is the global economy any less risky? Or do the conditions that led to the crisis still persist? These questions and more were at the heart of a conference titled, "Global Risk: New Perspectives and Opportunities," organized at Wharton by Penn Lauder CIBER (Center for International Education and Research) and Santander Universities. The consensus: We managed to respond to the immediate threats, but the longer-term drivers of instability are still active.

To download the full report: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/072011_GlobalRisk_Book.pdf
Or: http://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/pdf/Global%20TrendLab%202011%20Global%20Risk.pdf
 

This draft report, written by UF-CIBER–affiliated faculty Dr. Anita Spring and Dr. Robert Rolfe of the University of South Carolina, provides a comprehensive examination of Sub-Saharan Africa business conditions. It tracks social, political, and economic trends both for the entire region and its largest markets individually.

SABER considers the 20 largest GDP countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and organizes them into four regions, West, Central, East and the Horn, and Southern Africa. First, regional summaries highlight the major trends. Then illustrative country reports review for the year's events and data under six categories: political stability, growth and trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), infrastructure and telecommunications, ease of doing business, and health aspects. Finally, tables of indicators and other data document economic, political and social aspects relating to business conditions.

The Director of the International Business Center at Michigan State University – Tomas Hult – just published the new version of the Total Global Strategy book with George Yip. TGS has been the market leader both in multinational corporations’ board rooms and in executive MBA programs for years. From General Motors using the TGS framework to restructure their Asia operations to Michigan State University using it in its world-leading executive training programs in supply chain management to being rated as a top 30 business book previously, Total Global Strategy is the authority on practical and sophisticated global strategy development and implementation. TGS can be bought on Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/TGS2012) and at all major booksellers.

Total Global Strategy tackles industry globalization potential and a firm’s alignment between its global strategy and the industry’s globalization potential. TGS then focuses on five critical global strategy levers (global market participation, global products/services, locating global activities and supply chains, global marketing, and making competitive moves globally). TGS also helps build the global organization worldwide or with a regional focus, offers concrete measures of all aspects of the firm’s industry, strategy, and organization – and concludes with a very hands-on and practical how-to chapter on conducting a global strategy analysis. The 2012 version of TGS includes critical updates and revisions throughout, with a major emphasis now being on the notion of outwardly focused as opposed to inwardly focused global strategy. This means that global strategy today is a mechanism to engage the global marketplace, align the firm with partners and other collaborators, and center attention on global customers (as opposed to a focus on only building the infrastructure of the global firm as a way to be more effective and efficient when an industry is ripe for globalization).