General Management
-
- 2021
- Working Paper
Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era
By: Laura Alfaro, Cathy Bao, Maggie X. Chen, Junjie Hong and Claudia SteinwenderWe investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an under-examined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated, disapproved response to end conflicts between foreign powers. Exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1870-1941, we show that the trademark law impacted firm dynamics on all sides of trademark conflicts. The law spurred growth and brand investment for Western firms with greater dependence on trademark protection. In contrast, Japanese businesses, who had frequently been accused of counterfeiting, experienced contractions while attempting to build their own brands after the law. Further, the trademark law led to new linkages with domestic agents both within and outside the boundary of Western firms and the growth of Chinese intermediaries. At the aggregate level, trademark-intensive industries witnessed a net growth in employment and product categories. A comparison with previous attempts by foreign powers to strengthen trademark protection–such as extraterritorial rights, bilateral treaties, and an unenforced trademark code–shows the alternative institutions were ultimately unsuccessful.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era
By: Laura Alfaro, Cathy Bao, Maggie X. Chen, Junjie Hong and Claudia SteinwenderWe investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an under-examined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated, disapproved response to end conflicts between foreign powers. Exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1870-1941, we show that...
-
-
- 2021
- Chapter
Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World
BOOK ABSTRACT: Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.
- 2021
- Chapter
Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World
BOOK ABSTRACT: Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.
About the Unit
The General Management Unit is concerned with the leadership and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses:
- the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders;
- the philosophies, values, and strategies that inform successful enterprises; and
- the relation of enterprise to the broader community and other external constituencies.
The Unit's work is conceived and carried out principally in four interest groups, each of which has its own leadership, research agenda, and teaching programs:
- Management Policy and Process
- Management Information Systems
- Society and Enterprise
- Leadership, Values, and Corporate Responsibility
Recent Publications
Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era
- 2021 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
How to Build a Life: Quit Lying to Yourself
- November 18, 2021 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent
- November 2021 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
iOpenEye: Theater and #MeToo in Nigeria
- November 2021 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World
- 2021 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
How to Build a Life: What Winter-Haters Get Wrong
- November 4, 2021 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Go Out and Innovate! Perspectives on Educating Health Care Leadership in the Time of Innovation
- 2021 |
- White Paper |
- Faculty Research
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
There are no upcoming events.