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- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA '06)—wrote a paper on the "repotting" of the manufacturer Celanese....
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54553 May 2018 Harvard Business Manager Was kostet die Zeit? By: Thomke, Stefan H., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Christina Kestel Abstract—A German luxury watch View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
2001. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of developing a beauty business. These included the long-established, but relatively small, U.S. fragrance company...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
brands and manufacturing network, he intends to reposition the company as a branded retailer of furniture and home fashions. Just as management is poised to implement a new strategy that involves a heavy investment in brand advertising, a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA
pestle’s manufactured from recycled pipes; shoes made from recycled plastics; and enough recycled containers to fill a truck! We also paid a visit to the exquisitely skilled weavers near the Shero Meda market. While there, I had an...
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- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
failures thus create managerial challenges and opportunities for focal firms and their competitors. Focal firm failures often result in sales decreases and cost increases associated with remedial public relations and manufacturing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
presweetened cereals. The major ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal manufacturers, such as Kellogg's and General Mills, were supporters of the CBBB self-regulation programs and were invited to participate in the CBBB initiative. Each manufacturer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
manufacturing facilities in the country increase their local content. To address both problems at once, Joachim Zahn, the head of DaimlerBenz in Brazil, arranged with POEMA, a local antipoverty program in Belem, to construct a modern,...
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by George C. Lodge
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales and a manufacturing function within a firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507050 E.ON Corporate Strategy Harvard Business School Case 706-015 Examines the corporate strategy of German energy giant E.ON. The firm is vertically integrated,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
relies on Costco as a distributional partner, which adds credibility as well as helps to the brand without overspending on advertising. A logistics system allows Vizio to import televisions from a manufacturer in China in just-in-time...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
otherwise difficult to get an interview. I also had a cubicle at Intel in Santa Clara for fourteen months, and I also visited some of their sites including their fabrication facilities, which are incredible manufacturing operations. Q: So...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
firm financed the Miami port tunnel, paying a French construction company that used a German tunnel-boring machine, and another French company won the contract to operate Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subways and trains....
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