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- April 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Mercadona
This case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home. Fifteen years earlier, this Spanish supermarket chain had adopted its own version of total quality management, called the...
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Keywords:
Customer Satisfaction;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employee Relationship Management;
Service Operations;
Business Processes;
Retail Industry;
Spain
Ton, Zeynep, and Simon Harrow. "Mercadona." Harvard Business School Case 610-089, April 2010. (Revised April 2010.)
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'
By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses.
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Keywords:
Trusts;
Business Ventures;
Business Organization;
Family Business;
Restructuring;
Change;
Disruption;
Transition;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Finance;
Financial Management;
Governance;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Activism;
Innovation Leadership;
Labor;
Law;
Common Law;
Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Ownership;
Ownership Type;
Family Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Society;
Social Issues;
Wealth and Poverty;
Value;
Value Creation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United States
- November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
NovoCure Ltd.
By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Testing and Trials;
Technological Innovation;
Financial Services Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Sarah Flaherty. "NovoCure Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 810-045, November 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Climate Custodians
By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Can custody banks become key players in climate change? Custody banks joining the battle against climate change will signal a significant shift in governance ideology for this highly regulated industry so critical to the global financial system. While global custody...
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Keywords:
Pollutants;
Climate Change;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Institutional Investing;
Policy
Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "The Climate Custodians." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-138, June 2016.
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
environments. CEOs have little idea what to expect in terms of health care policy, financial transactions, national security, and global trade—all of vital importance to themselves, their employees, and...
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by Bill George
- 14 Dec 2022
- News
Santa Claus Debates Whether to Outsource Toy Production
- 2010
- Book
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
By: Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government and Politics;
Markets;
Business and Government Relations;
Research
Balleisen, Edward J., and David A. Moss, eds. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-172, January 1999.
- 2019
- Chapter
Integrated Partnerships in Cultural Sponsorship: The Cases of Guggenheim UBS and MFA Boston-Fleet
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Ragnar Lund
This chapter presents and interprets two field-based studies of sponsorship collaborations between major museums and significant financial institutions—a global multi-year partnership between the Guggenheim Foundation and UBS, and the pioneering regional integrated...
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Greyser, Stephen A., and Ragnar Lund. "Integrated Partnerships in Cultural Sponsorship: The Cases of Guggenheim UBS and MFA Boston-Fleet." Chap. 11 in Museum Marketization: Cultural Institutions in the Neoliberal Era, edited by Karin M. Ekström, 188–207. Mastering Management in the Creative and Cultural Industries. Routledge, 2019.
- March 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Vestas' World of Wind
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Elena Corsi
The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas launched the industry's first highly localized and customized new product launch campaigns which used also new tools such as web 2.0 platforms. Used to operate in a market where demand exceeded supply, Vestas had lost contact with...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Marketing Channels;
Internet and the Web;
Product Launch;
Demand and Consumers;
Advertising Campaigns;
Global Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Finance;
Product Marketing;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Elena Corsi. "Vestas' World of Wind." Harvard Business School Case 511-121, March 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 2016
- Book
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets
By: Lakshmi Iyer
Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"...
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Keywords:
Property Rights;
Economic Policy;
Political Economy;
Emerging Markets;
Economic Growth;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations
Iyer, Lakshmi. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets. World Scientific Publishing, 2016.
- March 2018 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Lynn Schenk
This case focuses on the 10-year journey of one of the world's largest global financial institutions developing a sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Sustainability;
Green Bonds;
ESG;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Business Units;
Integration;
Financial Institutions
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Lynn Schenk. "Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 318-103, March 2018. (Revised April 2018.)
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for C. Stevens, Vice President, Assembly Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for C. Stevens, Vice President, Assembly Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-174, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-173, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for Dr. D. Monosoff, Vice President, Data Devices Division." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-170, January 1999.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (A): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-169, January 1999.
- 19 Nov 2019
- Video
Lilian Simbaqueba
Lilian Simbaqueba, founder of the Colombia-based microfinance company LiSim, explains how her early international efforts, first in Mexico and then in many other locations, were motivated by economic crisis at...
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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big corporations, the distinguishing feature of the modern global economy, integrate doing good...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2001
- Case
GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
GE's chief litigation counsel sought to rationalize litigation flow by viewing it as a manufacturing process. By applying the principles of Six Sigma, P.D. Villareal created an Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) system that enabled both lawyers and managers to work...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Six Sigma;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Problems and Challenges;
Conflict and Resolution;
Energy Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-395, June 2001.