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- December 1998
- Case
Grupo Industrial Bimbo S.A. (1998)
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
A leading Mexican agribusiness firm wants to expand in the United States and other locations. How to do so in a manner that utilizes the strengths of the company?
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Food;
Global Strategy;
Strength and Weakness;
Expansion;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
United States;
Mexico
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Srinivas Sunder. "Grupo Industrial Bimbo S.A. (1998)." Harvard Business School Case 599-066, December 1998.
- 1977
- Book
Studies in Canadian Industrial Organization
By: R. E. Caves, M. E. Porter, A. M. Spence and J. T. Scott
Caves, R. E., M. E. Porter, A. M. Spence, and J. T. Scott. Studies in Canadian Industrial Organization. Toronto: Canadian Commission on Corporate Concentration, 1977.
- 1999
- Article
Commercial Use of UPC Scanner Data: Industry and Academic Perspectives
By: Randolph E. Bucklin and Sunil Gupta
Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science;
Information Technology;
Perspective;
Education;
Supply and Industry
Bucklin, Randolph E., and Sunil Gupta. "Commercial Use of UPC Scanner Data: Industry and Academic Perspectives." Marketing Science 18, no. 3 (1999): 247–273.
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
KT Corporation in the New Energy Market
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Dawn H. Lau
Keywords:
South Korea;
Korea Telecom;
Energy Markets;
Chang-Gyu Hwang;
KT;
Energy;
Energy Industry;
Energy Industry;
South Korea;
Korean Peninsula
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Dawn H. Lau. "KT Corporation in the New Energy Market." Harvard Business School Case 718-051, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- October 1996
- Teaching Note
Global Iron Proposal (A) and (B), Teaching Note
By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty
- August 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry
By: Paul M. Healy and Arjuna J Costa
Designed to explore recognition issues in the context of a potential market downturn. In late 2000, Lucent Technologies reports multiple revisions to its recent financial results due to revenue recognition problems, leading to a dramatic decline in its stock price....
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Keywords:
Corporate Disclosure;
Revenue Recognition;
Policy;
Supply and Industry;
Performance;
Communications Industry
Healy, Paul M., and Arjuna J Costa. "Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry." Harvard Business School Case 107-025, August 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry
By: DG Park, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the interactive media and services industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact...
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Keywords:
Product Innovation;
Impact;
Impact Investing;
Impact Measurement;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG Ratings;
Social Corporate Responsibility;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Social Impact;
Product Design;
Product Positioning;
Society;
Product;
Environmental Sustainability;
Measurement and Metrics;
Framework;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Media;
Technology Industry
Park, DG, George Serafeim, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-134, June 2021.
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
single, typically developed economies. The question is whether the concept of cooperation and individual sacrifice for the common good will work in a global labor market...
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by James Heskett
- fall 1999
- Article
The Evolving Market for Catastrophe Event Risk
By: K. A. Froot
Keywords:
Catastrophe Risk;
Corporate Finance;
Cost Of Capital;
Banking And Insurance;
Asset Pricing;
Hedging;
Banking;
Decision Choice And Uncertainty;
Financial Markets;
Insurance;
Policy;
Risk Management;
Natural Disasters;
Insurance Industry
Froot, K. A. "The Evolving Market for Catastrophe Event Risk." Risk Management and Insurance Review 2, no. 3 (fall 1999): 1–28. (Reprinted in Risk Management: The State of the Art, edited by S. Figlewski and R. Levich, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.)
- January 2002
- Background Note
The Major Global Stock Exchanges
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Lynn Villadolid Roy
Describes the major global stock exchanges.
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Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Lynn Villadolid Roy. "The Major Global Stock Exchanges." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-169, January 2002.
- December 2014 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
HomeAway: Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry
By: Rory McDonald, Feng Zhu and Cheng Gao
In less than 10 years, cofounders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the world's leading vacation-rental marketplace—a global online platform that links customers seeking vacation-home rentals to the...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Innovation;
Technology;
Acquisitions;
Operations Management;
Digital Platforms;
Acquisition;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Disruptive Innovation;
Disruption;
Accommodations Industry
McDonald, Rory, Feng Zhu, and Cheng Gao. "HomeAway: Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry." Harvard Business School Case 615-036, December 2014. (Revised August 2024.)
- June 2015
- Case
Ethiopia: An Emerging Market Opportunity?
By: John A. Quelch and Sunru Yong
This case centers on the potential and challenges of entering an emerging market. It provides a brief overview of the Ethiopian market, market reforms and policies, and the business environment faced by foreign companies. Three multinational businesses, CareCo, ShoeCo,...
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Quelch, John A., and Sunru Yong. "Ethiopia: An Emerging Market Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 915-501, June 2015.
- Research Summary
Rooting Marketing Strategy in Human Universals
Localization strategies can be costly to implement while globalization strategies may fail to develop or create demand by stressing readily shared product features rather than shared needs. Thus the question: Is there, somewhere between the extremes of localization...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Using LLMs for Market Research
By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly gained popularity as labor-augmenting
tools for programming, writing, and many other processes that benefit from quick text
generation. In this paper we explore the uses and benefits of LLMs for researchers and
practitioners...
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Keywords:
Large Language Model;
Research;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analysis;
Customers;
Consumer Behavior;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry
Brand, James, Ayelet Israeli, and Donald Ngwe. "Using LLMs for Market Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-062, April 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- May 2002
- Background Note
Project Valuation in Emerging Markets
Reviews the issues managers face when attempting to value projects abroad. These include dealing with multiple currencies, adjusting for country and industry risk, and considering expropriation and devaluation risk.
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Kennedy, Robert E. "Project Valuation in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-077, May 2002.
- March 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project
Traces changes in P&G's international strategy and structure, culminating in Organization 2005, a reorganization that places strategic emphasis on product innovation rather than geographic expansion and shifts power from local subsidiary to global business management....
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Trade;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Hong Kong;
Japan;
Taiwan;
Europe
Bartlett, Christopher A. "P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project." Harvard Business School Case 303-003, March 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors
By: Luis M. Viceira and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang
This paper conducts a theoretical and empirical investigation of global portfolio diversification for long-horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country...
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Keywords:
Investment Portfolio;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Diversification;
Capital Markets;
Global Range
Viceira, Luis M., and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang. "Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-085, March 2017. (Revised July 2018.)