The (Data) World Is Not Flat: Microsoft, Isolationism, and Data in the Age of Cloud Computing
How can Azure and cloud services compete against rising international data protectionism?
Free Trade
Isolationist Trade Policy Drives General Motors to Narrow its Scope
Protectionist trade policy drives General Motors, one of the world's largest automakers, to localize its global supply chain.
UTX and Carrier in the Context of Isolationism and International Trade
United Technologies Corp should consider the increasingly isolationist tendencies in the current US political climate that are leading to increasing pressure for American jobs to be reshored/repatriated from Asia and Mexico to the US, as illustrated by the Carrier Trump Mexico controversy in 2016.
Hunting in the Zoo: How Boeing’s plead for protectionism handed Airbus a spectacular opportunity to strike back
After a complaint from Boeing, the Department of Commerce imposed a 300% import tariff on Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier’s brand-new C-Series aircraft, effectively shutting them out of the U.S. market. Bombardier’s response? To partner up with Airbus and produce the same planes in Airbus’s facilities in the U.S. Now Boeing finds itself fighting two fully coordinated adversaries in different fronts, and Airbus is preparing itself for a very promising war of attrition.
How can Vietnam’s government integrate into global supply chains after American abandonment of the TPP?
When President Trump walked away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to put America First, the biggest loser was the people of Vietnam. But the Vietnamese government has other means to integrate into global supply chains.
The battle for the skies: Is free trade losing ground to protectionism?
The large commercial aircraft manufacturing market is increasingly threatened by trade barriers that can disrupt significantly a business until now dominated by Airbus and Boeing
Should Ford Lead the Defense of Globalization?
Can Ford defend Globalization and international trade in the face of rising American isolationism?
Fight or Flight? Boeing and the Intensifying Risk of a Global Trade War
The United States is at extreme risk from a global trade war due to its heavy Boeing exposure. Boeing planes are front-and-center targets in a contentious debate over protectionism.
Does a Trump presidency mean fewer free t-shirts?
Did you ever think about the impact that Making America Great Again would have on your ability to collect free t-shirts at every conference you go to? I’ll bet that was the last thing on the minds of most people last November, save for a few executives in the economic heart of French Canada.
Feeding a business abroad – Can Saudi dairy giant Almarai bet its business on a fully global feed supply?
Farming the desert The desert is an unlikely place for a dairy farm, but for Saudi-based Almarai, when you source everything but the cows abroad, suddenly you can create the most productive dairy farm in the Middle East[1]. Food […]