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- June 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
World Wildlife Fund US
By: Jane Wei-Skillern and Kerry Herman
World Wildlife Fund US is a leading international conservation nonprofit that operates within a global network of WWF organizations. This case examines WWF US's strategy to achieve its mission of protecting natural wildlife and resources. In contrast to traditional...
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Globalized Firms and Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Environmental Sustainability;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Trust;
Integration;
Sumatra;
United States
Wei-Skillern, Jane, and Kerry Herman. "World Wildlife Fund US." Harvard Business School Case 308-035, June 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
- April 1998 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998
By: Huw Pill and Donald H. Mathis
Describes, in detail, events precipitating crises. Provides both conventional and new explanations of crises. Presents a chronology of crises as the events unfold, and a brief summary of four particular countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand) and their...
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Financial Crisis;
Crisis Management;
International Finance;
Development Economics;
Thailand;
Malaysia;
South Korea;
Indonesia
Pill, Huw, and Donald H. Mathis. "Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998." Harvard Business School Case 798-089, April 1998. (Revised January 2005.)
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and regulation by the private...
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- 08 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950–1980
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by Geoffrey G. Jones
- 2019
- Working Paper
Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design
By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on...
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Monitoring;
Supplier Relationship;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Sustainable Operations;
Sustainable Supply Chains;
NGO;
Globalization;
Corporate Accountability;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Labor;
Working Conditions;
Business Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Evaluation;
Safety;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Electronics Industry;
China;
Indonesia;
India;
Bangladesh
Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill. "Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-001, July 2016. (Revised September 2019. Formerly titled "Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions" and "Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics.")
- 13 Jan 2011
- News
View from Jakarta
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
his photo to each summit. Subsequent climbs were Mt. Aconcagua, in South America (2011); Mt. Everest, in Asia (2011); Mt. Elbrus, in Europe (2012); Carstensz Pyramid, in Indonesia (2012); Mt. Vinson, in Antarctica (2012); and Mt....
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Jill Radsken
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
South Korea, Mexico, and Indonesia are among the largest economies in the world. If business history is to remain relevant as a subject, it must transition as a discipline from being heavily focused on North America, Europe, and Japan to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
trip to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia because their daughters, ages nine and six, have never been to Asia. Born in Pennsylvania, Brooks was raised in Arizona by her mom, a teacher and school administrator, and dad, an IT...
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Jennifer Myers
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
Chiaphua Group Vietnam (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [207090].
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- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
reforested each year in the United States during this same time period). Thirty percent of all indigenous mammals in Indonesia are threatened with extinction, while 13% of Japan's birds are threatened and 24% of higher plants in the...
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
a forest in the interior of British Columbia or in the tropical areas of Indonesia will look different than the temperate coastal rainforest from between Alaska and Washington state. It may look different, but key principles, they apply....
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
conceptions of development in another. Lessons from the collapse of democracy in Indonesia were later applied in Chile, just as the challenge of political Islam in Indonesia informed the policies of the left...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
social issues continued across the world, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, which produced 80% of palm oil. The case discusses the sustainability strategy implemented by Unilever across time with regards to palm oil, together with the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and Indonesia to the Philippines, is now just half the world average. Poverty is not, of course, a new phenomenon. But during the Cold War, economic misery abroad did not matter to Washington; the United States and its allies were...
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by George C. Lodge
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912003-PDF-ENG Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. GreenHarvard Business School Case 912-028 Describes the background and career of Lakhdar Brahimi in numerous roles...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
and beyond to Indonesia and the Philippines are one half the global average. Poverty in Central Asia is increasing as it is in many countries of Latin America, even those that are relatively prosperous like Mexico and Brazil. The key to...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- June 2017
- Case
AKB48: Going Global? (A)
By: Juan Alcácer, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul and Mayuka Yamazaki
After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities overseas for his artistic creation. This case introduces the business model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what...
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Keywords:
Brand Building;
Brand Extension;
Culture-based Products;
Global Products;
Differentiation;
Intellectual Property;
International Business;
Local Products;
Strategy;
Value Capture;
Market Entry and Exit;
Music Entertainment;
Business Model;
Global Strategy;
Global Range;
Brands and Branding;
Value Creation;
Expansion;
Music Industry;
Japan;
China;
Indonesia;
Taiwan;
Philippines;
Thailand;
South Korea
Alcácer, Juan, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "AKB48: Going Global? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-445, June 2017.
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
ultimately benefits business as well.” As a member of the eleven-person private-sector department, Naidoo has led multinational project teams in building on research that Oxfam did in partnership with Unilever to determine the multinational’s impact in View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We find a strong correlation...
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Sean Silverthorne