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- September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
From Beirut With Love (A)
By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned...
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Keywords:
Family Conflicts;
Sibling Rivalry;
Second-generation;
Foundation;
Trust;
Work-life Balance;
Succession Planning;
Corporate Culture;
Shareholders;
Board Of Directors;
Retail;
Department Store;
Shopping Mall;
Real Estate;
Growth;
Non-executive Chairman;
Sustainability;
Family Business;
Conflict Management;
Management Succession;
Governance;
Leadership;
Transformation;
Leading Change;
Organizational Structure;
Management;
Growth and Development;
Retail Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Lebanon;
Middle East
Wing, Christina R., Esel Y. Cekin, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "From Beirut With Love (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-024, September 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- July 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide
By: Heidi K. Gardner
This note outlines how leading professional service firms operating in China revise their standard hiring practices to fit local challenges and customs. Based on interviews with professionals in a number of established accounting, strategy consulting, and executive...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Service Industry;
China
Gardner, Heidi K. "Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide." Harvard Business School Background Note 411-029, July 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical...
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by Rachel Layne
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt...
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by Michael Blanding
- June 2020
- Case
Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah S. Goldberg
The case describes widespread misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank in the period leading up to 2017 and the company’s subsequent attempts to improve internal controls, company culture, and corporate governance. The case examines the potential causes of large scale...
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Keywords:
Corporate Misconduct;
Internal Controls;
Banks and Banking;
Crime and Corruption;
Corporate Governance;
Organizational Culture;
Governance Compliance;
Management Systems;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Improvement;
Governing and Advisory Boards
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Jonah S. Goldberg. "Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo." Harvard Business School Case 120-128, June 2020.
- January 2002 (Revised June 2002)
- Background Note
A Note on Building and Leading Your Senior Team
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
As performance demands intensify in fast-moving global markets, more executives are coming to rely on senior teams for strategic and operational assistance. Team building with powerful senior executives presents special challenges, including competition for their boss'...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Selection and Staffing;
Leadership;
Management Teams;
Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Rank and Position;
Strategy
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "A Note on Building and Leading Your Senior Team." Harvard Business School Background Note 402-037, January 2002. (Revised June 2002.)
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Nigeria: Africa's Giant
"Nigeria: Africa’s Giant" delves into the economic development and state building record of Africa’s most populous country. Despite being one of the continent’s largest oil-exporters, Nigeria’s economy has been struggling, and poverty is widespread. The country’s...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Government Administration;
Poverty;
Africa;
Nigeria
van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Nigeria: Africa's Giant." Harvard Business School Case 723-056, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 2007
- Book
Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband
This edited volume contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations. It explores the nature, forms and impacts of accountability efforts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies, and private...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Business and Government Relations
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Edward Weisband. Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- June 2002
- Case
"One Country, Two Systems"? Italy and the Mezzogiorno (B)
By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
In 1992, a corruption investigation and two assassinations created a crisis that prompted the Italian government to dispatch 7,000 troops to Sicily to "retake the island" from the Mafia. This case examines the crisis and the efforts of both the Italian state and the...
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Scott, Bruce R., and Jamie Matthews. "One Country, Two Systems"? Italy and the Mezzogiorno (B). Harvard Business School Case 702-097, June 2002.
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring...
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Salter, Malcolm S. "The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-062, March 2024.
- 2008
- Book
Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In fact, almost...
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Brooks, Arthur C. Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
- September 2023
- Article
Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League
By: Patrick Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani
Contests that non-contestants consume for entertainment are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. We exploit injury-induced changes to teams' line-ups in a professional sports setting to examine whether individuals prefer to consume contests that have...
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Ferguson, Patrick, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League." Economic Record 99, no. 326 (September 2023): 410–435.
- September 2003 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
"American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine
Examines the tensions multinationals cause by focusing on Europe's reaction to the growing U.S. multinational investment in the 20th century. Initially, Europeans rarely felt threatened by U.S. investments, however, tensions grew over time. After the Second World War,...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Investment;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
United States;
Europe
Jones, Geoffrey G., and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "American Challenge, The:" Europe's Response to American Business. Harvard Business School Case 804-057, September 2003. (Revised June 2006.)
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
CasPhotography What Can the Harley-Davidson Case Teach Us About Managing in a Politicized Environment? The advice to Harley-Davidson’s management from respondents of this month’s column is to (1) ensure that politics doesn’t deter the...
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- September 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Catalys Pacific
In 2019, BT Slingsby founds Catalys Pacific, the first biotech “venture creation” fund in Tokyo. After convincing some of the biggest Japanese pharmaceutical firms to invest, BT hopes the fund can make a big splash and transform biotechnology innovation in Japan. After...
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Keywords:
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Biotech;
Health Care;
Entrepreneur;
Innovation;
International Business;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Innovation Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Tokyo
Krieger, Joshua Lev. "Catalys Pacific." Harvard Business School Case 821-035, September 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- Article
Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust
By: Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
One of the toughest challenges leaders face is managing diverse perspectives—and given heightened tensions over politics and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that’s more difficult today than ever before. At the same time, productive disagreement and...
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Keywords:
Polarization;
Employees;
Perspective;
Interpersonal Communication;
Organizational Culture;
Trust
Minson, Julia A., and Francesca Gino. "Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 63–71.
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global outsourcing. But more recent...
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by David Stauffer
- December 2012
- Article
What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions
By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Based on Whitley's "National Business Systems" (NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42...
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Keywords:
Environment;
Environmental Performance;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Sustainability;
Institutions;
Institutional Theory;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Governance
Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions." Journal of International Business Studies 43, no. 9 (December 2012): 834–864.
- February 1992 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
The House of Tata
By: James E. Austin and Ashish Nanda
The case traces the evolution of the Tata group, one of the largest and highly respected Indian business houses, from its 19th century founding and early growth in diverse industries, to its response to changes in government regulation in independent India, up to its...
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Keywords:
Indian Economy;
International Business;
Government And Business;
Government Regulation;
Synergy;
Conglomerates;
Business Conglomerates;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Business and Government Relations;
Business History;
Steel Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
India
Austin, James E., and Ashish Nanda. "The House of Tata." Harvard Business School Case 792-065, February 1992. (Revised September 2019.)
- TeachingInterests
Managing International Trade and Investment
By: Dante Roscini
Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) is designed for students who expect to engage directly or indirectly in commerce and in strategic or financial investments across national borders. It covers concepts that are relevant to a number of operating and...
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