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- October 2013 (Revised December 2015)
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Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A)
By: Paul Healy and Penelope Rossano
In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream...
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Acquisitions;
Strategy;
Aluminum;
Accounting;
Financials;
Alcoa;
Rio Tinto;
Alcan;
Metals and Minerals;
Competition;
Consolidation;
Emerging Markets;
Acquisition;
Financial Statements;
Manufacturing Industry;
Canada;
China;
Russia
Healy, Paul, and Penelope Rossano. "Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 114-029, October 2013. (Revised December 2015.)
- Article
The Dark Side of Strategic Alliances: Lessons from Volvo-Renault
By: Robert Bruner and Robert Spekman
This article explores sources of failure in strategic alliances drawing on field research into one of the most prominent alliance collapses in recent years. The alliance of Volvo and Renault married the two largest enterprises in their respective countries for economic...
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Bruner, Robert, and Robert Spekman. "The Dark Side of Strategic Alliances: Lessons from Volvo-Renault." European Management Journal 16, no. 2 (April 1998): 136–150.
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of...
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- 10 Oct 2023
- News
HBS Responds to the Attacks on Israel
MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR Dear members of the HBS community, I wanted to follow up on the message I joined with Harvard’s leadership in sending last evening, and on the statement issued by President...
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- Web
Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
offers Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their View Details
- May 2009
- Case
Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education
By: Allen S. Grossman and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education (MCBRE) was a business-public education partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) that promoted cross-sector knowledge sharing and academic excellence. Its suite of core student programs, such as “720,”...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Education Industry;
United States
Grossman, Allen S., and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education." Harvard Business School Case 309-105, May 2009.
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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni
Careers Finding Job Opportunities Careers Finding Job Opportunities Starting to get the job search underway but feeling overwhelmed? These tools can help you stay organized and informed as you start to explore your options. Finding Job...
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- 2 Sep 2021
- Interview
Amy Edmondson
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Deepak Jayaraman
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.
Amy has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #3 in 2019. She studies teaming,...
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"Amy Edmondson." Episode 78. Play to Potential (podcast), September 2, 2021.
- May 2020
- Case
Trust Merchant Bank
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Salim Dewji
Trust Merchant Bank (TMB), a leading bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), needs to decide whether to enter the soon-to-be-liberalized insurance industry. Since its founding in 2004, TMB has played a pivotal role in reshaping the DRC banking landscape by...
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Keywords:
Retail Banking;
Financial Services;
Financial Inclusion;
Turnaround;
Fintech;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Condition;
Insurance;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Business Model;
Family Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
Monopoly;
Banking Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Africa;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Salim Dewji. "Trust Merchant Bank." Harvard Business School Case 720-449, May 2020.
- April 2017
- Article
The Effectiveness of U.S. Energy Efficiency Building Labels
By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
Information programs are promising strategies to encourage investments in energy efficiency in commercial buildings. However, the realized effectiveness of these programs has not yet been estimated on a large scale. Here we take advantage of a large sample of monthly...
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Asensio, Omar Isaac, and Magali A Delmas. "The Effectiveness of U.S. Energy Efficiency Building Labels." Art. 17033. Nature Energy 2, no. 4 (April 2017).
- September 2017
- Case
Harvard Men's Soccer
By: Alison Wood Brooks and Katherine Coffman
In the fall of 2016, the Crimson, Harvard’s undergraduate newspaper, broke a story revealing that the 2012 Harvard Men’s Soccer team had produced a sexually explicit “scouting report” about the Women’s Soccer team. The story generated national headlines and...
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Brooks, Alison Wood, and Katherine Coffman. "Harvard Men's Soccer." Harvard Business School Case 918-011, September 2017.
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HBS Application Tips from MBA Admissions - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to...
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- 2009
- Chapter
Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of the Chief Risk Officer
By: Anette Mikes
Enterprise risk management, under the leadership of chief risk officers (CROs), has the promise to bring enterprise-wide risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is...
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The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Apparatus, ca. 1920 Full text available as a networked resource Construction of the Western Electric Hawthorne Works on over 100 acres in Cicero, Illinois, began in 1905. By 1929 more than 40,000 men and View Details
- 11 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
- 2018
- Race and Leadership Development
Why Are We Talking About Race at Work?
Managing School Districts for High Performance
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Dean Nohria Addresses the Class of 2016
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
strategy a continual process; and mobilize leadership for change.) In the following excerpt they tell how Mobil NAM&R applied the last of those principles—mobilizing View Details
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
You don't need to be a frequent flier to know that the friendly skies aren't so friendly anymore. Cramped, overloaded planes, flight delays, and bare-bones amenities are the norm on most of the legacy carriers. But low-cost airlines like...
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