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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
approaching things," speculates Marquis. "Our assumption is that this will then have an influence on the local company. Having all of those influences somehow breaks down the effect." As companies put more of a focus on CSR, understanding these underlying distinctions...
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by Michael Blanding
- August 1994 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
MicroFridge
By: Norman A. Berg and James Weber
MicroFridge, a five-year-old, $12 million company based in Sharon, Mass., develops and sells a unique, combination compact refrigerator and microwave oven. All of the manufacturing is done for it by Sanyo in various overseas locations. The founder and president...
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Production;
Competitive Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Supply Chain Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Consumer Products Industry;
Massachusetts
Berg, Norman A., and James Weber. "MicroFridge." Harvard Business School Case 395-027, August 1994. (Revised October 1996.)
- May 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Infosys Technologies
By: Ashish Nanda and Thomas J. DeLong
Creating and sustaining a third-world-based technology company to compete globally (i.e. in the first-world) poses many challenges. Such challenges are examined through the genesis and progression of Infosys Technologies Ltd. Key decisions made by Chairman N.R....
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Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Business Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Planning;
Technological Innovation;
Emerging Markets;
Information Technology Industry
Nanda, Ashish, and Thomas J. DeLong. "Infosys Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 801-445, May 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
- August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Supplement
Gazprom (C): The Ukrainian Crisis and Its Aftermath
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Sogomon Tarontsi and Alexander Jorov
The case describes the resolution to the January 2006 gas crisis, precipitated by the decision of Gazprom, the largest natural gas producer in the world, to cut off gas supply to Ukraine because of disagreement on the terms of future trade. The case also narrates the...
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Trade;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Conflict Management;
Reputation;
Energy Industry;
Russia;
Ukraine
Abdelal, Rawi E., Sogomon Tarontsi, and Alexander Jorov. "Gazprom (C): The Ukrainian Crisis and Its Aftermath." Harvard Business School Supplement 709-010, August 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:In Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Neal M. Ashkansy, Oluremi B. Ayoko, and Karen Jehn. Edward Elgar...
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Carmen Nobel
- July 1997 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation (B) (Abridged)
By: Robert D. Austin and F. Warren McFarlan
H.E. Butt Grocery Co. led the grocery industry in adopting many innovations, including category management, electronic data interchange, and continuous replenishment. They have also moved aggressively and profitably into newer applications such as Scanner-based payment...
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Information Management;
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Organization;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Science-Based Business;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Risk Management;
Electronics Industry;
Computer Industry
Austin, Robert D., and F. Warren McFarlan. "H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 198-016, July 1997. (Revised June 2001.)
- December 2020 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Riverstone
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In 2020, Luke Minion and the leadership team at Riverstone, a hog producer founded in 2013 in Shandong, China, were evaluating Riverstone’s strategy as it rebounded from outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) in two of its three farm complexes. Riverstone was a joint...
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Strategy;
Globalization;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Disruption;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Risk Management;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Consulting Industry;
United States;
China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Riverstone." Harvard Business School Case 521-063, December 2020. (Revised May 2021.)
- December 2007
- Article
China + India: The Power of Two
By: Tarun Khanna
China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages by viewing the two as symbiotic. If Western corporations fail to do the same, they will lose their competitive...
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Competency and Skills;
Economic Growth;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Competitive Strategy;
Cooperation;
China;
India
Khanna, Tarun. "China + India: The Power of Two." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 12 (December 2007).
- Article
The Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia
By: Rawi Abdelal
Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries' relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national...
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Performance;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Profit;
Framework;
Corporate Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Policy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Crisis Management;
Government and Politics;
Energy Industry;
Europe;
Russia;
France;
Germany;
Italy
Abdelal, Rawi. "The Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia." Review of International Political Economy 20, no. 3 (June 2013): 421–456.
- October 2023
- Case
JPMorgan Chase in Paris
By: Joseph L. Bower, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Michael Norris
In 2019, Daniel Pinto, President and COO of JPMorgan Chase, has to make a recommendation to the bank’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, about where to physically locate the bank’s European trading operations after Brexit takes effect in 2020. The decision-making process...
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Change Management;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Markets;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Decisions;
Banking Industry;
Europe;
European Union;
France;
United Kingdom;
Paris
Bower, Joseph L., Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi, and Michael Norris. "JPMorgan Chase in Paris." Harvard Business School Case 724-001, October 2023.
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS...
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Alejandro Reyes
- March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Shepard Quraeshi Associates (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
Samina Quraeshi, principal of Boston-based Shepard Quraeshi Associates, must decide whether to take legal action against her key employees after they leave her firm to start their own, taking with them key clients and data. Quraeshi sees the situation as reflecting...
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Ethnicity;
Nationality;
Ethics;
Employees;
Gender;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Immigration;
Growth and Development Strategy;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Harold F. Hogan Jr. "Shepard Quraeshi Associates (A)." Harvard Business School Case 398-112, March 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
- June 2016 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
In February 2015, Daniel Loeb (a U.S.–based activist investor) announced his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and...
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Hedge Funds;
Economic Policy;
Investments;
Government Policy;
Deregulation;
Financial Management;
Valuation;
Investment Funds;
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Macroeconomics;
Investment Activism;
Change Management;
Financial Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Japan;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies." Harvard Business School Case 216-042, June 2016. (Revised May 2017.)
- July 2022
- Case
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative? (Abridged)
In the midst of increasing press scrutiny of the bottled water industry’s environmentally harmful practices, FIJI Water made a series of sustainability promises. The boldest of these was a pledge to go “carbon negative.” The company said that not only would they offset...
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Carbon Footprint;
Carbon Offsetting;
Environmental Accounting;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollution;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Brands and Branding;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Fiji;
United States
Toffel, Michael W., George Serafeim, Francesca Gino, Stephanie Van Sice, and Tom Quinn. "FIJI Water: Carbon Negative? (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 623-004, July 2022.
- 2014
- Chapter
The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption
By: Diego A. Comin
We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to...
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Economic Growth;
Microeconomics;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Analytics and Data Science;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Relationships;
Technology Adoption
Comin, Diego A. "The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption." In Handbook of Economic Growth. Vol. 2 edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014.
- February 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Cimetrics Technology (A-1)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jose Royo
Jim Lee, president of Cimetrics (a young, fast growing, software start-up) is reevaluating his small company's geographically dispersed product development model. To take advantage of talented low-cost labor in Russia, the company has relied on two software engineering...
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Business Model;
Applications and Software;
Business or Company Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Human Resources;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Labor and Management Relations;
Product Development;
Performance Evaluation;
Information Technology Industry;
Russia;
Canada;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Jose Royo. "Cimetrics Technology (A-1)." Harvard Business School Case 399-108, February 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Otis South Africa (A)
By: Michael Beer
Otis Worldwide CEO, George David, was frustrated with the slow pace of nonwhite advancement within Otis South Africa. After a few years of trying to elicit action from South African management, he decided to send a 28-year old U.S. employee to take over as the human...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Race;
Operations;
Business Headquarters;
Performance Improvement;
Human Resources;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Industrial Products Industry;
South Africa;
United States
Beer, Michael. "Otis South Africa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 492-049, April 1992. (Revised June 1993.)
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a...
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- 2008
- Book
Business Market Management: Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value
By: James C. Anderson, James A. Narus and Das Narayandas
For business-to-business marketing courses. The authors build the book around a framework of understanding, creating, and delivering value.
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Business Processes;
Value
Anderson, James C., James A. Narus, and Das Narayandas. Business Market Management: Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value. 3rd ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
2019 HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power By: Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology View Details
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Dina Gerdeman