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- 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007
and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United Africa Company in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
French General and Harvard Business School professor, Georges Doriot, who established the American Research and Development Corporation (ARD) in 1946. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812110-PDF-ENG Bharti Airtel...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to...
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by Debora L. Spar
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
(A) Harvard Business School Case 407-106 Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cite should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994,...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
original. Cary's 1695 Essay had indeed been cumulatively translated three times (into French in 1755, Italian in 1757-58, and German in 1788). The Italian and German translators never even returned to the original English edition, and the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel data of French...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
How will the proposed new complex be received be faculty, students, alumni, neighbors, and the public? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208079 Crossing Borders: Notes on a Middle Eastern Journey...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715457-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-052 Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), quickly read through the most recent news updates regarding the Ebola crisis in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209001 The New York Jets—A West Side Story Harvard Business School Case 207-027 In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Assessing Political Risk in a Volatile Environment Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Case 712-009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712009-PDF-ENG Veracity Worldwide: Evaluating FCPA-Related Risks in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
by Harvard Business School's Aldo Musacchio in the BGIE Unit, showing that this hypothesis has little empirical support. A careful study of 19th-century French and American law, for example, found little difference between the two...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
Business School Case 808-025 Explores the opportunities and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
access to potentially life-saving drugs? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-011 Veracity Worldwide: Evaluating FCPA-Related Risks in West View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family firms fall between two...
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- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand was the sheer tragedy of the calamity that struck the poverty-stricken country, recently emerged from a long and painful civil war; on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
obligations, but by 2009 it was rated America's most livable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Countries, like cities, have gone through their own bankruptcies on the path to recovery. Liberia, a small country in West View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
organizations as well as in emerging markets in Africa and India. They are spending lavishly at home to establish institutional infrastructures, create free-trade zones for manufacturing and services, and build recreational facilities...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
control over canvassers' selection and behavior than is typical to most campaigns. This paper takes a different approach by assigning entire precincts to either a control group or a treatment group in a countrywide experiment during François Hollande's campaign in the...
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Sean Silverthorne