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- 24 Mar 2011
- News
Managing in Asia
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
discovery is increasingly carried out by small research-specialized firms while downstream development, testing, and marketing is conducted by global pharmaceutical firms. Licensing plays an important role...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
friction-often pay too little attention to it in their approach to talent management. By managing language carefully, firms can hire and develop the best employees, improve collaboration on global teams, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
intelligence firm for nearly $2 billion, he remained active in venture capital, start-ups and charity work. In 2009 he founded the risk management consulting firm K2 Global...
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How do I prepare thirty minutes before my interview?
The top resources to use if you are pressed for time. To get an overview of a company, executives, recent activities and strategies use these databases: Capital IQ Quickly gain a holistic understanding of any company or firm...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Publishing) How do marketing managers assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities? This book explores which companies and products should expand...
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009...
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Susan Young
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
Detailed information on company professionals including relationships among firms/organizations and executives Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation - a global venture philanthropy firm supporting...
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- July 2010
- Case
Fidelity Retires in Canada
By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate...
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Business Exit or Shutdown;
Investment Funds;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Retirement;
Competition;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Edward Warren Scott. "Fidelity Retires in Canada." Harvard Business School Case 311-023, July 2010.
- January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights
By: Allen S. Grossman and Caroline Joan King
Mercy Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve a larger number of beneficiaries are unprecedented. By looking at the unique relationship between headquarters and...
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Business Offices;
Business Headquarters;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations
Grossman, Allen S., and Caroline Joan King. "Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights." Harvard Business School Case 307-096, January 2007. (Revised December 2008.)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can’t. In effect, these distorted environments burden local firms, create opportunities for institutional arbitrage for...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
BP's Macondo: Spill and Response
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo oil spill, noting that BP, its partners and the government all made decisions that helped cause the accident. It then discusses the response to this spill by BP and the...
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Safety;
Metals and Minerals;
Crisis Management;
Infrastructure;
Trade;
Pollutants;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business and Government Relations;
Finance;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry;
Mining Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Rotemberg, Julio J. "BP's Macondo: Spill and Response." Harvard Business School Case 711-021, September 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
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HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Recognizing Volunteers and Donors
G members Carlo Sant Albano, Jackie Donnelly Russell, and Loraine von Moltke. Reaching out to sectionmates near and far, the trio proved that in today's global society, geography does not hinder the strong bonds forged at HBS. Alice Au...
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- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on Vernon, we argue that the SOE can break free from this power imbalance and establish resource independence from other state actors by becoming a multinational firm and/or by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period...
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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
our understanding of it. Q: Where do you see your research taking you next? A: I continue to be fascinated by the role entrepreneurs and firms have played in integrating national economies over the last two centuries. This View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector, which is much more risk-averse....
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less likely to attract valuable...
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by Ann Cullen