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- March 1997 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
SOS-Kinderdorf International: Caring for Orphaned Children
SOS-Kinderdorf, founded in 1949, has grown rapidly into one of the largest orphanages in the world with children's villages, kindergartens, schools, youth facilities, and other complementary programs in 130 countries. This case describes the evolution of the...
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Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Mission and Purpose;
Problems and Challenges;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
India;
Norway;
United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "SOS-Kinderdorf International: Caring for Orphaned Children." Harvard Business School Case 597-079, March 1997. (Revised July 1998.)
- January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission
By: Anette Mikes
The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000, during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Moral Sensibility;
Leadership;
Organizational Structure;
Crisis Management;
Failure;
Cooperation;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Norway;
United Kingdom;
Russia
Mikes, Anette. "The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission." Harvard Business School Case 114-046, January 2014. (Revised August 2014.)
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
still doesn't adequately represent that. Norway has instituted a rule that 40 percent of corporate directors in that country must be women, but I don't think that kind of edict coming from the federal government would fly here, partly...
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by Jim Aisner
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company (TN)
Teaching Note for [810105].
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth funds, for new investments....
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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole. "He said we should be doing something like it ourselves," Keen recalls, "and I brought up what Deward had said, and asked if he thought big ag had our Cherokee seeds and what we...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
to reduce production made by Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Norway (which has large-scale projects in the North Sea), and Venezuela. "This is an interesting time in the business," remarks Bradley Fischer. "The supply and demand equation is coming...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
size of California. Do other Arctic countries like Canada, Russia, or Norway have stronger cultural or nationalist feelings about the North? If so, is the United States at a disadvantage in trying to forge domestic political consensus...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
less than $30,000. Wearing her global hat, Erika congratulated Europeans for their EV adoption and lamented that fewer than 2% of vehicles sold in the United States are electric vehicles. She noted that Norway ranks number 1 in per capita...
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- November 2023 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Norse Atlantic Airways
By: Willy Shih
Bjørn Tore Larsen, Norse Atlantic Airways's founder and CEO, hadn't planned to get into the airline business. But when the COVID-19 pandemic depressed the global demand for air travel and the lease rates for jetliners, he realized if ever he was going to get into the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Air Transportation Industry;
Europe;
North America;
Norway;
United Kingdom;
United States
Shih, Willy. "Norse Atlantic Airways." Harvard Business School Case 624-034, November 2023. (Revised May 2024.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HAA Honors HBS Alumni
Three HBS alumni were among six individuals recognized in September by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) for outstanding service to the University. Topping the 2012 HAA Awards list was F. Gorham Brigham (MBA 1939), who has served as secretary of his HBS class for 63...
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- November 2005 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Trolltech (Norway) - Will Cenapio Steal Christmas?
Describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese manufacturer of embedded devices (PDAs in this instance). Details the evolution of the two companies'...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Conflict and Resolution;
Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Open Source Distribution;
Information Infrastructure;
Entrepreneurship;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Information Technology Industry;
Australia;
Japan;
Norway;
United States
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Trolltech (Norway) - Will Cenapio Steal Christmas?" Harvard Business School Case 806-090, November 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
knowledge-based organization. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608073 Norway Sells Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 308-019 In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
and electricity supply. Is this the direction for private equity in the future? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812019-PDF-ENG Boardroom Change in Norway Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa BartonHarvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
that bring together entrepreneurs and adventurers alike to beaches everywhere from Norway to North Carolina. Tai talks here to Bulletin associate editor April White, about what exactly kiteboarding is, how he got into it, and how his...
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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
are difficult things for us to capture. There’s also a data-collection process that we rely on for our information about talent, but that is usually a national-level process. So, the United States conducts a census of its people. Likewise, View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
funds in reserve in the event that the FDA requests further data. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709002 VOSS Artesian Water from Norway Harvard Business School Case 509-040 VOSS is a...
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Martha Lagace