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- September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Malini Sen
Bühler Group, a Swiss multinational processing technology provider, started by selling machines for processing grains and later transitioned into selling food processing solutions. A family-owned business in the fifth generation, Bühler’s high-end milling, grinding,...
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Family Business;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Machinery and Machining;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Innovation Leadership;
Switzerland
Gulati, Ranjay, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Malini Sen. "Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 822-001, September 2021. (Revised March 2024.)
- April 2012
- Article
Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It
By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to...
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Operations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Globalization;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Local Range;
Retail Industry
Corstjens, Marcel, and Rajiv Lal. "Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
- February 2010
- Case
Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,...
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Business Model;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Logistics;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Trade;
Equity;
Corporate Finance;
United States;
Europe
Hamermesh, Richard G. "Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 810-102, February 2010.
- 14 Sep 2021
- HBS Seminar
Dashun Wang, Northwestern
Waze Connected Citizens Program
Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data in exchange for data on anticipated road closures, re-routing, etc....
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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network Affiliated Organizations & Institutions The View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
you.” Calvin Tjandra – Class of 2022 I landed at San Francisco International Airport on a Boeing 747 in 1999. We had travelled so far from Jakarta that the plane had refueled twice. I was five, an immigrant, a refugee, in kindergarten,...
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
and attract venture capital.” Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Nov 06 5 Weeks $1,850 + applicable international taxes Enrollment deadline October 31 View weekly calendar Enroll Now Starting Jan...
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- October 2020
- Case
Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress
By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be...
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Geopolitics;
Technology Ecosystem;
Software Engineers;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Business Startups;
International Relations;
Cooperation;
Opportunities;
Problems and Challenges;
Technology Industry;
Israel;
Palestinian state
Ofek, Elie, and Lia Weiner. "Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress." Harvard Business School Case 521-046, October 2020.
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an essay on the opportunities...
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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
in the country in question that the interviewee has made a long-run institutional contribution with his or her organization to that society. Why are some countries chosen for interviews and not others? It is logistically challenging to interview on video in View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
person harassing them, the most common reactions were avoiding the perpetrator (53%), avoiding thinking about the harassment (50%), and trying to create an internal narrative that the incident was not important (49%). A significant...
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- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
willing to contract to purchase the energy with a price escalator based on input price increases. However, offtakers may not be willing to internalize such variability in expenses and may indeed look to other alternatives instead. Key...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
even investors. At a national level, it can damage international relations. Here’s a sample of some indicators of differences between pride and arrogance: Pride We work for the customer We worry about what we can learn from others We’re...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Research Summary
Overview
The Information Age has introduced well recieved opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands show individuals their own performance; service companies including Uber and leading hospitals help pick from drivers or doctors based on how others rate them;...
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- March 2024
- Teaching Note
CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
By: Frank Nagle and Maria P. Roche
This teaching note is the companion to case N9-624-010 CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub, which takes place in late 2021. The case briefly describes the history of both GitHub and Microsoft with a particular focus on open source software (OSS)—software...
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- January 2024
- Case
Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Josh Domingues had accomplished what countless young entrepreneurs long to achieve: founding a promising company that aspires to make the world a tangibly better place. Shocked to learn that international food waste cumulatively amounted to the world’s third largest...
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Entrepreneur;
Founder;
Startup;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Food;
Applications and Software;
Mission and Purpose;
Environmental Sustainability;
Canada
Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment." Harvard Business School Case 824-131, January 2024.
- 2012
- Teaching Note
ChemChina (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
developing infrastructure projects and intra-Africa trade as well as those in value-added exports from Africa to international markets. “I’m happiest about a project when I feel we’ve established a real basis for sustainable development...
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