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- August 2005
- Background Note
Note on International Tax Regimes
By: Mihir A. Desai, Mark Veblen and Kathleen Luchs
Provides a framework for understanding different types of international tax regimes. Examines how alternative tax regimes tax the foreign income of their citizens (including corporate citizens); how tax regimes define foreign and domestic income; and how foreign tax...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Earnings Management;
Nationality;
Framework;
Taxation;
Profit;
Globalization;
Credit;
United States
Desai, Mihir A., Mark Veblen, and Kathleen Luchs. "Note on International Tax Regimes." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-014, August 2005.
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
restore a five-room operating suite, considerable feats given the complexities of business and finance in post–Soviet Russia. She is now looking to expand the group's fundraising reach and hopes “someday to...
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- June 1977 (Revised September 1992)
- Case
Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged)
Presents the issues facing a high volume, high margin (but lightweight) medical products business. The company is trying to improve its inventory control to reduce inventory investment and improve service. The present multi-site inventory system is described and major...
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Keywords:
Business Earnings;
Investment;
Volume;
Service Delivery;
Supply Chain;
Performance Improvement;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 677-257, June 1977. (Revised September 1992.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Former i-lab resident LovePop—founded by Wombi Rose (MBA 2015) and John Wise (MBA 2015)—had an atypical appearance on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank: By the end of their presentation, they...
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- July 2010
- Technical Note
Note on the Banking Industry
By: Clayton S. Rose and Scott Waggoner
This note provides an overview of the structure and function of the banking industry, with a primary focus on the U.S. It was designed to support the HBS MBA course "Managing the Financial Firm."
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Business or Company Management;
Industry Structures;
Banking Industry;
United States
Rose, Clayton S., and Scott Waggoner. "Note on the Banking Industry." Harvard Business School Technical Note 311-011, July 2010.
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
big screen. Our virtual conversation is live!Julia is the Director of Business Development at BaubleBar, and oversees the company’s global digital and offline partnerships. Before HBS, Julia never worked in retail, but had lots of good...
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- March 2004 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (A)
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Operations of Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia included a strategic alliance with Gazprom, the country's natural gas monopoly, the development of the Salym oil fields in Siberia, and a small retail refilling network in St. Petersburg. Focuses on the Sakhalin II project....
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Energy Generation;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Lawfulness;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Alliances;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
Russia
Abdelal, Rawi E. "Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 704-040, March 2004. (Revised June 2006.)
- May 2010
- Supplement
Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)
By: Robin Greenwood
Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40 percent in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund...
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- March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Resident
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Operations;
Entrepreneurship;
Competitive Strategy;
Initial Public Offering;
Decisions;
Marketing Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Demand and Consumers
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Thomas O. Jones. "Resident." Harvard Business School Case 821-090, March 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
- September 2006 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Providian Financial Corporation
By: John R. Wells
On October 3, 2005, Washington Mutual acquired Providian Financial Corporation, the ninth-largest credit card issuer in the U.S., for $6.5 billion. At the time, Providian had approximately 10 million customer relationships and a balance of $18.6 billion. For some...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Restructuring;
Customer Relationship Management;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Credit Cards;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Wells, John R. "Providian Financial Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 707-446, September 2006. (Revised January 2008.)
- Profile
Daniel Serna
Reservations demonstrated community-supported agriculture by managing a dairy herd and producing grass-fed beef. "I took an A.P. class in economics," Dan says, "to learn more about the business environment." When he...
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- September 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Tom Quinn
In 2023, executives with ReMo Energy (founded 2020) were deciding which size ammonia plant to build as their first project. Their innovative model produced ammonia—useful for making fertilizer and for energy storage—from renewable energy, and they had received funding...
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Startups;
Cost vs Benefits;
Design;
Energy Conservation;
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Venture Capital;
Investment Return;
Goods and Commodities;
Size;
Infrastructure;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Technological Innovation;
Chemical Industry;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States;
Boston
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Tom Quinn. "ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors." Harvard Business School Case 824-027, September 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School...
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- Profile
Dominic Mensah
will continue to be a resource. How have diverse perspectives in your section contributed to your understanding of business concepts, leadership, and/or problem-solving? I would borrow wisdom from my Finance...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an expensive one—US$320 million, View Details
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April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
restaurants’ finances and operations. “It’s been extremely stressful since December,” she admits. Debt and loan management, meetings with her seven-person senior management team, profit and loss reports, marketing plans, management...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to...
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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
outweighed the PG Ventures offer. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-004 KGFS: A New Approach to Rural Finance No abstract available....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
support and inclusion that will benefit every member of your team. Harvard Business School students and alumni shared with us what they have seen companies doing well to support LGBTQ+ employees, and where there are areas for improvement....
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Keywords:
All Industries
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
writes. The global pandemic has created an opportunity to “bring impact to the center of our economic system, to overthrow the tyranny of profit and to shift the basis for our business and investment decisions from risk-return to...
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