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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Aguirre, president of P&G's global feminine care division. Most companies believe that in times of crisis you have to drop your costs. That typically leads to erosion of consumer value because you actually erode your View Details
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by Julie Jette
- Web
Ellen Desmarais | About
marketing. She went on to lead HBP Education unit, navigating it through the pandemic and expanding outreach to educators globally while outpacing industry revenue growth. Most recently, Ellen served as Chief Operating Officer of HBP,...
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H. Brewster Atwater, Jr.
Despite a worldwide recession, Atwater led General Mills through 10 consecutive years of market value growth. He re-focused General Mills on its core products and services, and in so doing, enabled the company to profitably expand on a...
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Food & Tobacco
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
goods rather than agriculture or services. Industrial exports increased as a percentage of total exports from circa 25 percent to 40 percent between 2007 and 2013. It is no coincidence that the largest increase in labor productivity over...
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by George Serafeim
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
producing its oil, each of the five or six key field that are still around 90 percent of their production are in real danger of a pending production collapse. You might see the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
venture-capital feedback sessions, entrepreneurial boot-camp modules, a career fair, and the Cyberposium TechShow, which showcased cutting-edge products and technologies that have the potential to make a substantial impact on everyday...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic...
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- October 1996 (Revised March 2000)
- Teaching Note
Intercon Japan TN
By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty
Teaching Note for (9-688-056).
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- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
further recombined by locals,” he says. “If H1-B was scrapped, or Europe stopped admitting skilled migrants, the knowledge production of the global economy would suffer.” One vivid example of this innovation...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
pirate by global pharmas that consider Cipla’s products a direct rip-off of patented drugs. From 1999 through 2002, Cipla enjoyed an average annual growth rate of 30.3 percent from the sale of more than 400...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
efficiently. High-volume manufacturing — unless the product is too expensive to ship — will continue to migrate offshore. “If there’s any market that’s going to do well in the global economy, it’s...
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- January 2018
- Case
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed...
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Child Care;
Childcare;
Day Care;
Daycare;
Early Childhood Education;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Selection and Staffing;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Education Industry;
United States;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
exception. What they have in common are good reasons for foreign businesses and Western governments to cheer the changes. In Bahrain, the Khalifa family, members of Islam's Sunni sect, rules over a majority Shia population. This kingdom in the Persian Gulf earns $5...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s...
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A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology - Course Catalog
how physical products are designed, how services are delivered, and how individuals interact with businesses and each other. The proliferation of embedded IT in everyday objects is silently transforming the world around us, enhancing...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
FIELD course. FIELD 3, the final module, thrust students into experiencing the real-world roles of entrepreneur, analyst, marketer, and investor. It challenged them to refine the leadership and teamwork skills they learned in FIELD 1 last fall, and the View Details
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FIELD program
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
States will continue to play the role of swing supplier for years to come. And because improving technology will allow the North American oil and natural gas production sector to respond ever more quickly to View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research...
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- November 2002 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
MontGras: Export Strategy for a Chilean Winery
By: David J. Arnold, Howard H. Stevenson and Alexandra de Royere
MontGras, a medium-sized Chilean winery, has to formulate an export strategy. It has to decide whether to emphasize the U.S. or U.K. markets, which also offer different positioning and pricing proposals. It has twice failed to penetrate the U.S. market because...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost Management;
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Valuation
Arnold, David J., Howard H. Stevenson, and Alexandra de Royere. "MontGras: Export Strategy for a Chilean Winery." Harvard Business School Case 503-044, November 2002. (Revised November 2005.)