Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in A World Where Differences Still Matter

Acknowledgments

BEHIND THIS BOOK is a personal journey from a small city in India, to Indiana, back to India, then to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and recently to Barcelona. Professionally, I began to work on the ideas in this book in the mid-1980s, soon after I had joined the Harvard Business School faculty, when I wrote an early analytical piece on global strategy with Mike Spence, one of my thesis advisers.

My interest in imbuing my work on strategy with a cross-border perspective was whetted further by a study on India’s competitiveness that Mike Porter and I undertook in the mid-1990s for the Confederation of Indian Industry. Shortly after, I was fortunate enough to take over Mike Yoshino’s Global Strategy and Management course at HBS, which ...