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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
headquarters are large (255 median staff for a 20,000 FTE MNC) and European headquarters smaller (124). Implications are drawn that countries will lose activities if domestic firms are acquired by foreign MNCs, and that MNCs need to allow more View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund
By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decisions;
Capital;
Investment Banking;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Wealth;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
China;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Xiaoyu Gu. "Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund." Harvard Business School Case 311-137, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017.
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Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Levers Of Control;
Strategy;
Risk Management;
Decisions;
Cooperative Ownership;
Product Development;
Moral Sensibility;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Expansion;
Science-Based Business;
Research;
Management Practices and Processes;
Business Subsidiaries;
Biotechnology Industry;
Sydney
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive landscape with its superior pricing...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
1959 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company to facilitate sales and distribution in the United States. The details of American Honda’s early history have long served as evidence in debates among scholars and practitioners...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
subsidiary of Sony Japan, they now develop a wide range of digital content offerings for mobile phone users, mostly original content "made in Japan"—including keitai novels. But can SDE's subscription model compete in a market...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
multinational firms hold cash in their foreign subsidiaries because of the tax costs associated with repatriating foreign income. Consistent with this hypothesis, firms that face higher repatriation tax burdens hold higher levels of cash,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to...
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Personal Services
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Harvard Business School Case 714-471 Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg's Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
diversification and additional market penetration in both developed and emerging markets. He and his colleagues would depend on their experience of acquiring numerous companies, entering and retaining new markets, restructuring the organization, and managing hundreds...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
poverty? A: Yes, there are many. Here are two: DaimlerChrysler some years ago, under pressure from the Green Party in Germany, decided it had to increase the amount of renewable resources it used in the manufacture of its cars. The manager of the company's Brazilian...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
technological innovation only in high-margin verticals? Or through a separate subsidiary with a new low-cost business model for commoditized verticals? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112084-PDF-ENG Virgin Group:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
808-109 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808109 Moët Hennessy España Harvard Business School Case 408-108 Since being appointed CEO of Moët Hennessy España (MHE), the Spanish View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
the auction of Cable & Wireless America (CWA), a bankrupt subsidiary of the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. While an initial "stalking-horse" bid valued the assets at $125 million, after a long day...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the company and its subsidiaries as part of a national public relations campaign. This exhibit showcases their efforts. You did a splendid job on presenting Lehman Brothers – better than I have ever seen it. - Ambassador John L. Loeb,...
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real estate View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established business. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807156 M-TRONICS (B) Harvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company-essentially a collection of subsidiaries operating under a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
markets around the globe: What can Silicon Valley learn from your experiences? And what happens if the Startup Capital of the World ignores these lessons? READ MORE Nicole Poindexter: My name is Nicole Poindexter (MBA 1997) and I'm the CEO of Energicity Corp and its...
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