Publications

October 1999
Case

Argentina's YFP Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

In June 1999, Spain's former state-owned oil giant Repsol, acquired 97% of YPF, despite opposition from YPF management. The case describes the status of the two companies at the time of the acquisition and highlights concerns expressed by industry analysts on the deal. View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; State Ownership; Acquisition; Decisions; Profit; Privatization; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; Argentina; Spain

September 1996
Case

InterSoft of Argentina (C)

By: Linda A. Hill and Stacy Palestrant

Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. Designed to be handed out at the end of class. View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict Management; Information Technology Industry; Argentina; Russia

01 Feb 2002
News

Thumbs Up Down Under

It was with mixed emotions that Rich Wilson (MBA '82) and his coskipper Bill Biewenga set sail from New York Harbor last September aboard their 53-foot trimaran Great American II, heading south on a long-planned voyage to Melbourne,... View Details

Keywords: Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

After decades of decline, despair, and neglect, the last ten years have brought some preliminary signs of revitalization to a number of inner-city neighborhoods in the United States. Blighted areas such as Chicago's North Side, New York's View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

May 2011
Teaching Note

The Dutch Flower Cluster (TN)

By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter

Teaching Note for 711507. View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Industry Clusters; Competition; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Netherlands; China; Colombia; Ecuador; Kenya

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

the addition of Spangler Center on the south side of campus and the opening of a south entrance to Baker Library, the School now prominently faces Harvard’s future expansion into Allston. The reconstruction... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Nov 2008
News

No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey

fowl an honorary degree, whereupon she headed south to Wall Street with a clutch of updated résumés. Or was that Capitol Hill? In case you missed the flap about Turk, she moved in without invitation about a year ago and, for a while at... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

May 2016
Supplement

2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred

This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Faculty Books

United States, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. Vietor challenges the widespread notion that, in market-driven economies like the United States, a strong government can only hinder business success. He offers insights into... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2004
News

Celebrations in LA, Florida, London

Summers, and a group of HBS professors at the February gathering. The following month, Dean Clark flew south to meet with enthusiastic groups of Florida alumni at well-attended events in Palm Beach, Miami, and Naples. In late March, the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

anti-American sentiment in many nations was rising because of the Iraq war. Most of the consumers were like the South African who candidly said, "I hate the country, but I love their products." A Filipino confessed: "I used... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

01 Mar 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider

Mount Rushmore, so we packed up and drove to South Dakota. Of course, my parents didn’t know that was the week of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.” Break on through: “We launched the Street 750 motorcycle in India to respond to customer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
Case

Paez

By: Jill Avery, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Laura Urdapilleta

Paez, an Argentine start-up fashion brand, sold traditional alpargatas, a sleepy shoe category that suddenly woke up when U.S. company TOMS borrowed the traditional alpargata design, covered it with fashionable colors and prints, and tied it to a social cause. Paez's... View Details

Keywords: Brands; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Retailing; Fashion; Competitive Strategy; Marketing; Advertising; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Argentina; Spain

December 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Beidahuang

By: Ray A. Goldberg and David Lane

Beidahuang is a major new Chinese player in global grain trading that in 2013 is seeking access to grain both to help assure China's food security and in pursuit of its own commercial goals. Focusing on potential trade in Brazilian soybeans, the case asks students to... View Details

Keywords: China; Brazil; International Trade; Grain; Soybeans; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Globalized Markets and Industries; Cooperation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China; Brazil

August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
Supplement

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (D)

By: David F. Hawkins

The fourth case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to the imposition of foreign currency controls? View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Governance Controls; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela