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- 2007
- Case
Continuous Process Improvement at Deere & Company
By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
After decades of tense relationships with the United Auto Workers, Deere & Company broke through with a landmark agreement that built an expectation of continuous improvement into the compensation plan. The company then built a set of management forums and processes to...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Machinery and Machining;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Management Practices and Processes;
Labor Unions;
Compensation and Benefits;
Auto Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Govindarajan, Vijay, and Chris Trimble. "Continuous Process Improvement at Deere & Company." 2007. (Case No. 2-0024.)
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial
In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December...
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Keywords:
Human Behavior;
Human Dignity;
Human Resource Practices;
Corporate Change And Sustainability;
Corporate Culture;
Strategic Corporate Decisions;
Strategic Change;
Strategic Decision Making;
Emotion;
Management Challenges;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Culture;
Human Resources;
Crisis Management;
Law;
Courts and Trials;
Labor;
Labor and Management Relations;
Management Practices and Processes;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
European Union
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Ashley V. Whillans. "France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-422, December 2020.
- March 2016 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa's democracy persists, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition — the African National Congress, the labor unions, and the Communist Party — still controls the political system but with diminishing economic...
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Keywords:
Politics;
Development;
Productivity;
Labor;
Labor Unions;
Infrastructure;
Government and Politics;
Economic Growth;
Performance Productivity;
Economy;
Social Issues;
South Africa
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?" Harvard Business School Case 716-069, March 2016. (Revised September 2021.)
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
7, 2020 and was built in part from research conducted during Harvard Business School’s 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU) in 2018 (visit Agents of Change website for more information about and...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
in the Media Age by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills (Cambridge University Press) Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges posed by terrorism, Russia, China, and the European View Details
- Profile
Leo Markel
U.S. granted us refugee status and we moved from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without this move and my family's toils, my prospects would have been very different. Recognizing that there are billions of people who can scarcely afford to...
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- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
employees often endured in steel mill towns, where soot billowing out from plant smokestacks covered streets and homes. 36 Fritz Henle. Grievance Committee meeting with union workers and company officials, Homestead District Works,...
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- April 1984
- Teaching Note
United Kingdom (A): The Decision to Join the Common Market, Teaching Note
By: Bruce R. Scott
- 2021
- Working Paper
Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999
By: Grace Ballor
In 1991, in the midst of the program to create a liberal Single European Market and in the context of a new Joint Declaration for cooperation with Japan, the European Commission brokered a private deal to restrict Japanese imports into the European Community for nearly...
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Keywords:
Market;
Protectionism;
Liberalization;
Trade;
Markets;
International Relations;
Auto Industry;
Europe;
European Union;
Japan
Ballor, Grace. "Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-145, June 2021.
- May 2013
- Article
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
By: Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the...
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Falck, Oliver, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr. "From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 3 (May 2013): 419–449.
- 2008
- Report
State of the Region Report 2008: Sustaining Growth at the Top of Europe
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2008 State of the Region Report is the fifth edition in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region. The Report is organized into three parts: Part A of the Report describes the economic, political, and...
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Keywords:
International Relations;
Performance Evaluation;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Cooperation;
Baltic Countries;
European Union
Ketels, Christian H.M. "State of the Region Report 2008: Sustaining Growth at the Top of Europe." Report Series, Baltic Development Forum, Copenhagen, December 2008.
- Winter 2017
- Article
Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play
By: Benjamin Edelman
I present Google practices that have raised objections from competition regulators. I consider the key impediments to competition and examine the business models foreclosed by Google's restrictions.
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Keywords:
Antitrust;
Mobile;
Mobile Technology;
Search Technology;
Technology Platform;
Contracts;
Lawfulness;
Competition;
Information Technology Industry;
European Union;
Russia;
South Korea
Edelman, Benjamin. "Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play." Antitrust Chronicle (Winter 2017).
- Web
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology
philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, or containing genetic, biometric or health data or data concerning sex life or sexual orientation, and criminal convictions and offenses. Identifiable genetic, biometric and health data...
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- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option as creeping socialism. View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all kinds of inefficiencies into the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors This field-based study of the Union of European Football Associations and its main international sporting event,...
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- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
Image credit: Dan Bejar ALUMNI One Paramount Priority Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) on how to preserve the republic after the election A More Perfect Union America’s faith in democracy is fading. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001) is leading a...
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
multilateral negotiations, and tedious wordsmithing that led up to the Paris Agreement. It also examines the consequences of President Donald J. Trump’s 2017 withdrawal from the accord; the emerging leadership of the European Union and...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the North continued to suffer crushing numbers of casualties. Pressure grew on the Union side to end the conflict, even if it meant foregoing universal emancipation. Facing the prospect of an upcoming presidential election against a...
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- Profile
Ralph Johnson
banking were not the right roles for me. Specifically, the African-American Student Union and the Management Consulting Club were really helpful. The latter had a panel of people who had not initially gotten the consulting internships...
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Consulting