The global airline industry is one of the most popular industries to be showcased in Business School classrooms. This is not any different in my case. A couple of years ago I co-authored a case study on AirAsia X, the long-haul extension of the very successful budget airline startup AirAsia from Malaysia. It was a classic case where the incumbents failed to provide a service for an underserved segment. Now in the airplane-manufacturing world it is interesting to see that a few years back, when the A380 was introduced the two main global competitors EADS and Boeing saw the world as evolving very differently when it came to future air-travel. Given the level of maturity of the industry, the concentration and consolidation within it, and it's profitability, common management theory would sugg

Forthcoming: MIT Sloan Management Review article. Intellectual property (IP) protection is the Number ONE challenge for multinational corporations operating in China. To learn about how companies successfully manage the China IP protection challenge we conducted in-depth field research in 57 of the most successful multinational corporations. We identified nine highly effective IP protection practices, which together form a dynamic “Web of IP Protection.” We found that the “Web” allows a corporation to a) expand faster within China and across other emerging markets b) outperform local and foreign competitors and c) improve local and global innovativeness. To learn more about how to build your own line of defense against property theft read the forthcomging full article in MIT Sloan MR. (exp

Today, I am please to anounce the launch of the hassle factor website! The research for this important new meassure has taken more than 6 1/2 years. We will add more data waves for the years 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 by September 2018.  Check out the following link and navigate through the site: www.hasslefactor.info  

In late 2013, we published a study on how travel hassles affect firms' foreign investment decisions in the Journal of International Business Studies. While we captured some of the air-pollution effects in our health risk measure, the issue is becoming much more critical. Firms now struggle not only to deploy expatriates in places like Beijing, New Delhi or Mexico City with substantial air pollution there are fewer and fewer managers who actually want to spend time in these places. This of course affects the depth of their firms’ business activities in these countries. In The discussion is picking up steam. CNN recently published a study on the 10 most hated cities in the world. Similarly, The Globe and Mail in an article published on April 9 just pointed to the air pollution hassle. But al

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