If you asked your retail staff to look customers in the eye and greet them with a smile, would that hurt your business? Maybe. U.S.-based Walmart discovered this in 1998 when it opened its first ...

To me, it has always been crucial to conduct my business with both local and global considerations in mind. This concept of “glocalization” is starting to gain more attention. For those who aren’t yet ...

Rather than deglobalization, what we’re seeing is a strategic reconfiguration of global business—call it "precision ...

One of the key processes in the development of the world economy on the verge of the 20th – 21st centuries is progressive globalization, i.e. a qualitatively new stage in the development of the ...

How global, really, are “global” companies? Pankaj Ghemawat, who taught at Harvard Business School for 25 years before moving to Spain to become a professor of global strategy at Barcelona’s IESE ...

Shannon K. O’Neil offers a powerful case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the last forty Globalization is not the only—or even the real—story of the ...

As the coronavirus spreads around the world, companies are seeking alternatives to making goods in China, while right-wing political parties fulminate against open borders. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for ...

Globalization and the Rise of the Global Middle Class CAP Partner in Britain Examines Rising Living Standards Across the Globe Visiting Fellow Will Straw talks about a program at the Institute for ...

American popular culture has had a profound impact on societies and communities around the world. Whether it be the world of fashion, literature, or politics, aspects of American pop culture have had ...