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- November 2003 (Revised May 2016)
- Case
Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (A)
By: Geoffrey Jones and Lisa Bud-Freirman
Taught in the MBA Evolution of Global Business course, a business history course on the growth of multinationals. Explores the role of the British entrepreneur Weetman Pearson in developing the Mexican oil industry before 1914. Shows this entrepreneur's evolution from...
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History;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Growth Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Energy Industry;
Mexico
Jones, Geoffrey, and Lisa Bud-Freirman. "Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (A)." Harvard Business School Case 804-085, November 2003. (Revised May 2016.)
- October 1998 (Revised September 1999)
- Case
Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field
By: William J. Bruns Jr., Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
Details the establishment of the Mercedes Benz M-Class plant in Vance, AL. The plant was established as an independent "teaching field" for parent company Daimler Benz. The case reviews the different lessons from the plant and looks at issues going forward,...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Banks and Banking;
Integration;
Horizontal Integration;
Business Ventures;
Teaching;
Organizational Structure;
Auto Industry;
Alabama
Bruns, William J., Jr., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Anthony St. George. "Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field." Harvard Business School Case 199-028, October 1998. (Revised September 1999.)
- Web
The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
how a founder should approach raising financing and how the organization should be structured so that it can deliver a product or service reliably. DIFFICULT DECISIONS addresses many View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- HBS Seminar
Bill Kerr, Harvard Business School
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
that creates surprisingly flexible value. NFTs can turn images into event tickets, and event tickets into brand anchors. They will usher in the next generation of customer loyalty programs, creating View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
that only 30 percent of employees are engaged in their work. The issues raised are ones I have worked on for many years. With the drive for higher productivity in View Details
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by Bill George
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
requires careful structuring of the transaction, cautious pricing of the shares, and wide diversification View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
Motivating employees takes more than carrots and sticks—it hangs on making them aware of those incentives and deterrents, according to new research. Companies, governments, and institutions across the globe...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
because it doesn’t factor in people who have abandoned their job searches. Few predict the situation will improve soon: Almost half (47 percent) of the HBS alumni surveyed for...
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Francis Storrs
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
things. Companies then compensate for this separation with integration at the senior management level, ensuring alignment at the top. As Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman explain: “The View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Securing Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
sets up a theoretical framework for examining today's norms. Right now in the marketplace, the lines between open science, public knowledge, and proprietary knowledge and research are becoming blurred. A lot...
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- Forthcoming
- Article
Dynamic Silos: Increased Modularity and Decreased Stability in Intra-organizational Communication Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Tiona Zuzul, Emily Cox Pahnke, Jonathan Larson, Christopher White, Patrick Bourke, Nicholas Caurvina, Neha Parikh Shah, Fereshteh Amini, Youngser Park, Joshua Vogelstein, Jeffrey Weston and Carey E. Priebe
Workplace communications around the world were drastically altered by COVID-19, related work-from-home orders, and the rise of remote work. To understand these shifts, we analyzed aggregated, anonymized metadata from over 360 billion emails within 4,361 organizations...
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Zuzul, Tiona, Emily Cox Pahnke, Jonathan Larson, Christopher White, Patrick Bourke, Nicholas Caurvina, Neha Parikh Shah, Fereshteh Amini, Youngser Park, Joshua Vogelstein, Jeffrey Weston, and Carey E. Priebe. "Dynamic Silos: Increased Modularity and Decreased Stability in Intra-organizational Communication Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Management Science (forthcoming).
- March 2013
- Article
The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?
By: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates whether the business relations between mutual funds and brokerage firms influence sell-side analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the...
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Firth, Michael, Chen Lin, Ping Liu, and Yuhai Xuan. "The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?" Journal of Accounting Research 51, no. 1 (March 2013): 165–200.
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
sense of themselves and their world. In his view, the level of sophistication of how one structures an...
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by Martha Lagace
- September 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard C. Wei
In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers,...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizational Structure;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Marketing Strategy;
Production;
Rank and Position;
Business Strategy;
Capital;
Computer Industry;
Japan
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000." Harvard Business School Case 495-001, September 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of View Details
- March 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Identifying and Realizing Investments in Eastern Europe (A)
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Robert E. Kennedy and Laure Mougeot Strook
A Greek milling firm wants to invest in Eastern Europe. The case explores the firm's search strategy and its due diligence process after a potential investment, and considers how the company should structure its bid. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Keywords:
Foreign Direct Investment;
Venture Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Business and Government Relations;
Financial Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe
Goldberg, Ray A., Robert E. Kennedy, and Laure Mougeot Strook. "Identifying and Realizing Investments in Eastern Europe (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-086, March 2001. (Revised June 2001.)