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- 05 Sep 2023
- News
Don Kohn’s Reflections on Jackson Hole 2023
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) wants to rescript Africa’s role in the world. “For too long the continent has been seen as a place people give things to,” he says. “I want to connect Africa to the world on equal terms.” As vice president of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
To help Chinese CEOs operate more effectively in the global economy, HBS has teamed up with two other business schools to develop the Global CEO Program for China (GCPC), an... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
covers an impressive amount of territory, for the energetic Juliber, it's only a start. "One of the main challenges for a global company is how to accelerate the transfer of experience and information from one part of the world to... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
Walter Kuemmerle. These realities include the importance of local context and the need to adhere to a global perspective on opportunities and access to resources. These same issues provide fascinating research fodder for the course he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
engine manufacturing division of United Technologies, offered him a post managing a joint venture in Taipei, Taiwan. Keohane had chosen the company because its global operations presented many “right-sized”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?
It’s safe to assume that Harvard University alumni collectively have a significant impact in the world, but just how significant is hard to know. That is why Harvard Business School is leading a University-wide effort to quantify the View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A)
By: Juan Alcacer and Nancy Hua Dai
In April 2013, Ford Asia Pacific & Africa (FAPA) was examining its options for e-coating service metal parts for the Ford Customer Service Division in Sanand, Gujarat, India. Randy Creel, Director of Parts Supply & Logistics, FAPA, worked with his colleagues in the US,... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Investment; International Business; Location Strategies; Global Strategy; Supply Chain
Alcacer, Juan, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A)." Harvard Business School Case 914-014, January 2014. (Revised March 2014.)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
and geopolitical change and uncertainty; compete on a global scale; and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth by Regina M. Abrami,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
associates Chisato Toyama (MBA ’99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. As head of the first-year required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
colleague, interviewed Levitt for a special video presentation shown at the The Globalization of Markets colloquium. Noting that in 1983 Levitt’s HBR article had “created a firestorm of debate,” Greyser asked him to recall its impact at... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
abroad, an advantage for investing in Africa. The main disadvantage for South African firms to operate in the African markets is that their risk profile will be correlated. In other words, they're going to be overexposed to Africa from a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
operations covering widely recognized brands including Lipton, Hellmann’s, Birds Eye, Ben & Jerry’s, Dove, Sunsilk, and Pond’s. Taking advantage of full access to corporate archives and executives, Jones discusses Unilever’s strategies to... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"Privatization and the Role of the Governments in a Global Economy," the prime candidates for state-run operations clustered around five sectors of the European economy— transportation,... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
coffee drink sold from a vending machine. Where do we compete? "What should a company's global footprint look like? How should it allocate resources across countries?" Collis asks. In the eternal battle between Coke and Pepsi, should... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
organization’s operations more efficient through strategic improvement projects, thus allowing salauno to better serve its patients. Leger’s passion for social impact was itself borne of growing up a citizen of the world. Born in France,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 28 Aug 2023
- News