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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS...
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Judith A. Ross
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
startups. Our cases focus on founder decisions during this search and discovery phase, both in the experiments that they design and run as well as the organizations they build. LTV has a tactical, implementation bias rather than a strategic one. There is a modest...
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- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
integrate management across the company. First and perhaps most important, he had the leaders of all the breakthrough projects report to a single executive, Adrian Hunter, the vice president of R&D, who had a deep knowledge of the...
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- December 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Boortmalt: The Master Maltster
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene and Emer Moloney
By May 2023, Boortmalt was the world’s leading producer of malt, with a production capacity of 3 million tonnes, 15% of global market share, and 27 malting plants across five continents. It had recently acquired a major competitor and had sustained an EBITDA growth of...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Talent and Talent Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Values and Beliefs;
Financing and Loans;
Employee Relationship Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Management Style;
Resource Allocation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Strategic Planning;
Environmental Sustainability;
Organizational Culture;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Belgium;
Europe
Reinhardt, Forest, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene, and Emer Moloney. "Boortmalt: The Master Maltster." Harvard Business School Case 724-021, December 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- March 2023
- Teaching Plan
Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-014.
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- 1990
- Chapter
Executives' Attitudes toward Advertising Regulation: A Survey
By: B. B. Reece and S. A. Greyser
- October 2002 (Revised March 2009)
- Background Note
Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Esteban Clavell
Briefly reviews motivations and trends behind foreign direct investment and multinational corporations as well as the policy debate that surrounds them.
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International Finance;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura, and Esteban Clavell. "Foreign Direct Investment." Harvard Business School Background Note 703-018, October 2002. (Revised March 2009.)
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
service technologies from a provider, customer, and investor perspective. Customers are concerned with integration and driving down costs, said Steven Lewis, Microsoft's general manager of .net market...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
Conference Coverage on the Working Knowledge website. European Business Conference Seeks to Understand Differences Americans expect to find luxury goods at the mall. Europeans don’t. American shoppers expect to be waited on. U.K. View Details
- November 1991 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
Pressco, Inc.--1985
A capital budgeting problem is viewed from the context of a marketing representative attempting to make a sale of energy saving heavy industrial equipment. Tax law changes promise to have a significant impact on the customer's decision process. Teaching purpose: To...
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Capital Budgeting;
Machinery and Machining;
Valuation;
Taxation;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Cost vs Benefits;
Inflation and Deflation;
Cost Management;
Product Marketing;
North and Central America
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Pressco, Inc.--1985." Harvard Business School Case 292-085, November 1991. (Revised December 1996.)
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
executive roles at Kemin since joining the company in early 2006. Most recently, as corporate vice president, she managed marketing, sales, IT, operations, and HR. She honed in on personal care in 2010, as consumer demand for natural...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
Christensen and Anthony present a model to assist managers in identifying opportunities from creating new brands to revitalizing existing ones. It’s a model most managers will need to apply sooner or later....
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- March 2017
- Case
SEAS and HBS in Allston
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Kerry Herman
The case describes opportunities for and barriers to collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School as SEAS prepares to move two-thirds of its faculty and classes to a new campus in Allston, 1.5 miles...
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Business Education;
Engineering;
Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Change Management;
Education Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Kerry Herman. "SEAS and HBS in Allston." Harvard Business School Case 817-064, March 2017.
- November 1991 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
AT&T: The Dallas Works (B)
Describes the innovative use of a cross-level team as a tool for driving change at a troubled AT&T plant. After the team is disbanded, the case raises questions about the group's achievements, and about how well the organization is positioned to tackle the changes that...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Groups and Teams;
Telecommunications Industry;
Texas
Jick, Todd D. "AT&T: The Dallas Works (B)." Harvard Business School Case 492-024, November 1991. (Revised June 1992.)
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
3 Steps to Better Virtual Meetings
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IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology
market for websites and web publishing. We want to empower HBS website owners by adopting a more user-friendly, self-service model for web content management. HBS websites have previously been managed using an outdated, highly View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
that doesn’t work sometimes,” says Hoye. “This is why we do what we do. So far, it’s working.” From Baker Library: Want to excel at customer engagement like Faction Collective? Read McKinsey’s advice on truly listening to View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
course the lobster industry tried it, but in less than two years, the traps rusted and the welds broke. Our customers came back, because they realized cheaper wasn’t better.” Equipment that automates repetitive tasks—such as a $2.5...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
evolve along this continuum, forward or backward," he says, "is a useful strategic tool for managers who are assessing what type of relationship they're in and considering if and how they should progress to...
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Nancy O. Perry