Debora L. Spar
Debora Spar is the Spangler Family Professor at Harvard
Business School, where she works on issues of
business-government relations and the political environment
of international commerce. Dr. Spar's current research
focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment, examining
how firms compete in foreign markets and how government
policies shape and constrain their options. She is
particularly interested in information-based industries such
as media, entertainment, and biotechnology. Her current
research examines the politics of reproductive science,
analyzing how the “baby business” has developed and how
commerce, politics and technology are likely to interact in
and affect this market. Other projects examine the political
drivers of foreign direct investment and the impact of
investment on human rights and labor standards. At Harvard,
Dr. Spar is Senior Associate Dean, Director of Research and
teaches courses on the politics of international business,
comparative capitalism, and economic development. She is
also Chair of Making Markets Work, an executive education
program devoted to public and private sector leaders in
Africa, and teaches and consults for a number of
multinational corporations, government agencies, and
non-governmental organizations. Dr. Spar is the author of numerous publications in academic
and public policy journals. Her latest book, The Baby
Business was published by Harvard Business School Press in
January 2006. She is also author of Ruling the Waves: Cycles
of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the
Internet and The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of
International Cartels, and co-author with Raymond Vernon of
Beyond Globalism: Remaking American Foreign Economic Policy.
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Series
Books:The Baby Business, February 2006
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