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- August 1999 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Tricon Restaurants International: Globalization Re-examined
By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Tarun Khanna
Describes a leading fast food operator/franchiser trying to consolidate and standardize its operations worldwide and focus its efforts on a few key markets. Lends itself to a discussion of how global the fast food industry is, whether Tricon's new international...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Global Strategy;
Markets;
Operations;
Competition;
Consolidation;
Food and Beverage Industry
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Tarun Khanna. "Tricon Restaurants International: Globalization Re-examined." Harvard Business School Case 700-030, August 1999. (Revised July 2009.)
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
(and omitted) race as a key factor. We ask a critical question within this review: what do we know about the intersection of mentoring and race in organizations? Finally, we explore some of the unfinished business concerning race and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2012
- Supplement
Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb
The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Crime and Corruption;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governance Compliance;
Law;
Joint Ventures;
Business Subsidiaries;
Government Legislation;
Rail Industry;
Nigeria;
United States;
United Kingdom
Goldberg, Lena G., and Annelena Lobb. "Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-019, August 2012.
- October 1994
- Case
Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
In October 1992, Eugene Shanks, president of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and Brian Walsh, head of the Global Investment Bank (GIB) business unit, are considering a proposal for a large and complex financing involving the North Sea Oil Co. (NSOC). The financing...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Risk Management;
Value Creation;
Business History;
Capital Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Markets;
Corporate Finance;
Banking Industry;
Energy Industry
Perold, Andre F., and Kuljot Singh. "Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank." Harvard Business School Case 295-010, October 1994.
- August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell
The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Cooperative Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Competitive Advantage;
Retail Industry;
Finland
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik, and Jordan Mitchell. "Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail." Harvard Business School Case 709-409, August 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
- July 2000
- Case
Aerospace Technologies, Inc.
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses...
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Keywords:
Accrual Accounting;
Accounting;
Revenue;
Cost;
Business or Company Management;
Profit;
Engineering;
Bids and Bidding;
Government and Politics;
Private Ownership;
Consulting Industry;
Israel
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Aerospace Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 101-003, July 2000.
- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Glass Egg Digital Media
Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to offer brand-name publishers-Microsoft EA, Atari-significant cost savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at...
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Keywords:
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Product Development;
Organizational Structure;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Godes, David B. "Glass Egg Digital Media." Harvard Business School Case 508-066, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
investor base. For example, adoption of integrated reporting could be a step in this direction. Integrated reporting provides a holistic picture of the business describing the economic, environmental, and social performance of the...
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- September 2017
- Teaching Note
The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?
By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan
In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity...
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- 15 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Mixed Source
- September 2001 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
DIENA
By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Requires students to draw a new organization structure diagram for a rapidly evolving business. A/S DIENA is a newspaper publisher founded during Latvia's 1990/91 struggle for independence from the USSR with a clear social mission to support democracy. With the help of...
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- November 2012 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Cisco in 2012: Reorganizing for Efficiency and Flexibility
By: Ranjay Gulati, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Luciana Silvestri
In 2012, Cisco was under intense pressure to show results: growth in its core business was decelerating and a number of exploratory ventures and acquisitions had not proven as profitable as expected. CEO John Chambers vowed to restore the company's health in a way that...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Restructuring;
Adaptation;
Performance Efficiency;
Emerging Markets;
Information Technology Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, and Luciana Silvestri. "Cisco in 2012: Reorganizing for Efficiency and Flexibility." Harvard Business School Case 413-069, November 2012. (Revised August 2014.)
- Dec 2019
- Survey
A Recovery Squandered
Despite a decade of steady economic growth since the Great Recession, America has done remarkably little to address underlying structural weaknesses in the country’s economy and society. Surveys of HBS alumni worldwide, HBS MBA students,...
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- March 2010 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes
By: Robert G. Eccles and Thomas H. Davenport
Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Product Development;
Service Delivery;
Business Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Cooperation;
Information Technology Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes." Harvard Business School Case 410-084, March 2010. (Revised February 2011.)
E. Scott Mayfield
Scott Mayfield is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School. Prior rejoining the faculty in 2011, Professor Mayfield was an assistant professor and member of the Finance Unit at HBS from 1997 to... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Supplement
ghSMART(-er) & Co., 2008: Pioneering in Professional Services
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Ashraf Haque
Geoff Smart, founder and CEO of ghSMART & Co., wanted to build ghSMART into the #1 management-assessment firm for CEOs and investors. However, he had just received two pieces of very bad news: the demise of an existing project and the loss of a $1 million engagement he...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Loss;
Motivation and Incentives;
Service Industry
Wasserman, Noam T., and Ashraf Haque. "ghSMART(-er) & Co., 2008: Pioneering in Professional Services." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-025, July 2008. (Revised December 2011.)
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
American business history, he looked outward to Europe and then to the rest of the world. His many articles and his 3 greatest books—Strategy and Structure (1962), The Visible Hand (1977), and Scale and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
Michael L. Tushman
Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
expressed as shareholder value. Its focus is on formal structure and systems. It is driven from the top with extensive help from consultants and financial incentives. Change is planned and programmatic. Theory O has as its purpose the...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- April 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Be Our Guest, Inc.
By: Dwight B. Crane and Penny Joseph
Be Our Guest is a rapidly growing equipment rental company with substantial seasonality in its revenues and profits. In the spring of 1998, the senior management team is reviewing its financial plans in preparation for a meeting with the company's bank. The case...
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Keywords:
Financial Strategy;
Borrowing and Debt;
Banks and Banking;
Revenue;
Management Teams;
Business Plan;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Utilities Industry;
Service Industry
Crane, Dwight B., and Penny Joseph. "Be Our Guest, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 299-001, April 1999. (Revised March 2001.)