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  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

understand the landscape of security concerns and actors in China. Firms should also learn how US policymakers view the security implications of their business and sector as a whole. Second, the nature of China’s political economic system... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • July 2017 (Revised March 2019)
  • Technical Note

The Future of Mobility: Economic, Environmental, and Social Implications

By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
This technical note explores how advancements in technology are fundamentally transforming how consumers interact with mobility. Transformation is being driven by three independent trends: the emergence of affordable electric vehicles, the development of autonomous... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Automobile Manufacturing; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Mobility; Inequality; Electric Vehicles; Ride-sharing; Ambidexterity; Transformation; Disruption; Change; Technological Innovation; Transportation; Equality and Inequality; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Distribution Industry
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Competition in Modular Clusters

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands... View Details
Keywords: Price; Profit; Digital Platforms; Industry Clusters; Competition; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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    Jan W. Rivkin

    Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

    Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
    • March 2022
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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    • 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B) (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lei Li
    This case describes the post-M&A integration of Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company) until 2013. Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine... View Details
    Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Postmerger Integration; Strategy; China; France; Chemicals; China; France
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    • Winter 2019
    • Article

    Value-based Health Care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist

    By: J.A. Martin, B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan and T.W. Feeley
    At one point or another in our life, we all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care.... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Anesthesiologists; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; United States
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    • July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (A)

    By: Willy Shih
    Metrology plays a key role in the manufacture of mechanical components. Traditionally it is used extensively in a pre-process stage where a manufacturer does process planning, design, and ramp-up, and in post-process off-line inspection to establish proof of quality.... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Machinery and Machining; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Planning; Quality; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Segmentation; Technology Adoption; Theory; Manufacturing Industry
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      NGOs and Organizational Change

      The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with global networks. Alnoor... View Details

      • 07 Jul 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

      Legacy of Enron's Collapse (Harvard University Press), the devastation of Enron was total—yet there is much that business today can gain from a postmortem of the once-triumphant company. Salter had access to an extensive library of public information, including volumes... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
      • 09 Aug 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      Career Advancement Without Experience

      contract workers are willing to accept, if it means gaining the experience and exposure that will lead to a new position. One technical writer put it this way: "I turned down solid offers from three companies, all paying over $100K a... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology
      • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
      • Supplement

      ABB: Accountability Times Two (A)

      By: Robert L. Simons
      Describes the complexity of setting and reconciling performance targets in a global, matrix company. The president of the Finnish industry and rail transport company has received targets from two bosses--his regional superior and his business area superior. Each has... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Expectations; Complexity; Multinational Firms and Management; Finland
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      • 22 Mar 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

      • 26 Jul 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: July 26

      supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611080-PDF-ENG Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A) Heidi K. Gardner and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 411-038 CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 20, 2013
      • Article

      The Tyranny of Minority Shareholders

      By: Josh Baron and Henry Foley
      The article discusses challenges arising from minority ownership in the context of the proposed Empire State Building IPO. It emphasizes the complexities that minority shareholders can introduce in business decisions when families take their assets public. The article... View Details
      Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Ownership; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Power and Influence
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      • Article

      Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity

      By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins
      World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details
      Keywords: World Models; Mathematical Methods
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      • January 2010 (Revised December 2011)
      • Case

      Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China

      By: William C. Kirby and G.A. Donovan
      With the recent announcement from the Chinese government that the country's healthcare system was going to undergo reform, Jiamei Dental Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15 year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical... View Details
      Keywords: Private Sector; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Expansion; Health Industry; China
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      • August 1994 (Revised May 1995)
      • Case

      Engineering Inspection & Insurance Company

      By: Robert H. Hayes
      Engineering Inspection & Insurance Co. (EIIC) is a small but highly successful company that offers machinery and boiler inspection and insurance services. After years of above-average growth and profits, both are retreating toward the industry average, policy delivery... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Business Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Insurance; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Insurance Industry; United States
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      • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
      • Supplement

      ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)

      By: Robert L. Simons
      Describes internal allocation conflicts in a complex global company structured as a matrix organization. ABB Switzerland has secured and will build an important power station project; however, internal market allocation policies dictate that this work be handled by ABB... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Conflict Management; Complexity; Sweden; Switzerland
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      • 2014
      • Supplement

      Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lei Li
      This case describes the post-M&A integration of Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company) until 2013. Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine... View Details
      Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Postmerger Integration; Strategy; China; France
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