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- April 2023
- Article
The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity
By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'...
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Keywords:
Real Exchange Rate;
Firm Level Data;
Innovation;
Productivity;
Exporting;
Importing;
Credit Constraints;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Productivity
Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu. "The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity." Journal of the European Economic Association 21, no. 2 (April 2023): 637–689.
- October 2003
- Case
ABS Global
By: David E. Bell, Hal Hogan and Jose M. M. Porraz
ABS Global is considering an acquisition in Australia. Efficient production and distribution is becoming more difficult as it becomes global. Yet trade restrictions and local preferences for its product, bull semen, dictate that ABS come up with a new way to...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Production;
Global Strategy;
Distribution;
Adaptation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Australia
Bell, David E., Hal Hogan, and Jose M. M. Porraz. "ABS Global." Harvard Business School Case 504-053, October 2003.
- TeachingInterests
FIELD Global Immersion
The FIELD Global Immersion course sends student teams into global markets around the world, requiring them to develop a new customer experience, product or service concept for a global partner organization leveraging design thinking innovation techniques.
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- 15 Aug 2016
- Video
FIELD Global Immersions
- April 1987
- Article
Global Seihin Kaihatsu ni okeru Kyousou Yuii no Senryaku (Strategy for Gaining Competitive Advantage in Global Product Development)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
- Research Summary
Automotive Product Development
At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details
- February 2024
- Case
More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company
By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
In August 2022, CEO Yasuo Takeuchi reflected on Olympus Corporation’s recent transformation from being known as a Japanese consumer camera company to becoming a leading global medical technology (MedTech) company. Over the past dozen years, Takeuchi and prior...
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Keywords:
Global Human Resource Management;
Medical Technology;
Corporate Strategy;
Transformation;
Globalization;
Business Model;
Leading Change;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Japan;
United States
Collis, David J., and Haisley Wert. "More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company." Harvard Business School Case 724-426, February 2024.
- 2009
- Report
Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Less than a year after the first Nordic Globalization Barometer has been launched, the state of the world economy has changed dramatically. A deep financial crisis is taking its toll on investors, borrowers, and the financial institutions that serve them. A deep...
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Keywords:
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Markets;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Competitive Strategy;
Scandinavia
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?" Report Series, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009.
- June 2018 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser
By: Jill Avery
Brian Perkins, chief architect of the $6 billion Budweiser brand, was excited about 2018, in which the company would launch Budweiser into several new markets in Africa and Latin America. He was feeling the pressure to finalize a global brand strategy that would define...
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Keywords:
Brand Management;
Global Brands;
Brand Positioning;
Brand Extension;
Brand Storytelling;
Brand Equity;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Advertising;
Global Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Communications;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Africa;
China;
United States;
North America;
South Africa;
Nigeria;
Kenya;
Cameroon;
Canada
Avery, Jill. "Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser." Harvard Business School Case 518-105, June 2018. (Revised October 2020.)
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
improvements in impoverished countries. Lodge advanced the ideas in a January 2006 two-part piece in YaleGlobal coauthored with economist Craig Wilson. The authors also have a book due in May, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
world. They're no longer on that list, but Toyota now is. How did Toyota—and the other nine companies—do it? There are 5 characteristics that all top global brands have in common: 1. The same positioning worldwide. This provides a...
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- October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Avon Products (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Leading Change;
Salesforce Management;
Organizational Culture;
Job Design and Levels;
Gender;
Management Teams;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Mexico
Paine, Lynn S., and Greg Rogers. "Avon Products (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-059, October 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
- March 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Global Sourcing at Nike
By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull
This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s...
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Keywords:
Sourcing;
Factory Conditions;
Trade;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Labor;
Human Capital;
Working Conditions;
Supply Chain Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Labor and Management Relations;
Complexity;
Sports Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Oregon;
Portland;
Asia;
North and Central America
Hsieh, Nien-hê, Michael W. Toffel, and Olivia Hull. "Global Sourcing at Nike." Harvard Business School Case 619-008, March 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser
By: Jill Avery
Brian Perkins, chief architect of the $6 billion Budweiser brand, was excited about 2018, in which the company would launch Budweiser into several new markets in Africa and Latin America. He was feeling the pressure to finalize a global brand strategy that would define...
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- January 2018
- Supplement
Interview with Case Protagonist Wen Li
By: Willy C. Shih
In today's global economy, what are the factors that go into production location choice? This case is set in the world's largest automotive glass producer as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced with...
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Keywords:
Globalization Of Supply Chain;
Production Management;
Production;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Auto Industry;
China;
United States
Shih, Willy C. "Interview with Case Protagonist Wen Li." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 618-704, January 2018.
- October 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Production I.G: Challenging the Status Quo
By: Andrei Hagiu, Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Masako Egawa and Chisato Toyama
In July 2006, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa wondered how he could further enhance the success and visibility of his animation production company headquartered in Tokyo, Production I.G. For the year ended May 2006, Production I.G. had sales of 5,439 million yen ($47.3 million),...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Competitive Advantage;
Markets;
Animation Entertainment;
Going Public;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Tokyo
Hagiu, Andrei, Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Masako Egawa, and Chisato Toyama. "Production I.G: Challenging the Status Quo." Harvard Business School Case 707-454, October 2006. (Revised March 2007.)
- Teaching Interest
Field Global Immerson
The FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) is a semester-long first-year (RC) MBA course. The course is a capstone of sorts, and it requires students to build on learnings from their first-year courses and apply them to real-world business problems. At the beginning of the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
availability, delivery, shipment quantities, payment terms, and all the other services that accompany the core product. Marketers must use their imagination. As the saying goes: "There are no mature products, only mature managers." That said, intense View Details
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by John Quelch
- Web
Global - Global Activities 2020
researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker’s production in Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China’s labor shortage of migrant workers....
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