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- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/glaxosmithkline-in-china-a/an/514049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-050 GlaxoSmithKline in China (B) In 2013, Chinese investigators detained four GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) employees for allegedly bribing health care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
company. They can either sell the company to a large public company, raise another round of capital from a preeminent venture capital fund, or continue to grow using existing positive cash flow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
corporate control that in the 1980s was facilitating the selling of operating divisions and the acquiring of those of other companies. This shift in its product portfolio started in 1982 with the purchase of Sherwood Medical Company, the... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
case:http://hbr.org/search/313036-PDF-ENG El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan John Coates, Clayton Rose, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 313-021 On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Although Novartis would improve its position in oncology by acquiring GSK’s promising drug portfolio, it had to sell its vaccines and animal health businesses, while giving up control of the over-the-counter (OTC) business. Jimenez and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are motivated to excel in all areas? A: Frei: Even superstar managers would probably admit to being... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
Case 111-071 Todovino sells Spanish wines through wine clubs and websites. Founder-CEO Gonzalo Verdera has partnered with many companies to create cobranded wine clubs, but now he is pondering a joint venture with one of his rivals, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
Rohm and Haas board decided how to move forward after its largest shareholder chose to sell all of its shares in the company. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411001-PDF-ENG The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (B)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
them and many agents are reluctant to sell them. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510040-PDF-ENG A Letter from Prison Eugene SoltesHarvard Business School Case 110-045 Stephen Richards, the former global head of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
policy implications of these findings. The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
Fisher made a fortune selling trendy, inexpensive home furnishings to baby boomers. With that generation beginning to enter its sixties, he sees a huge opportunity in products for aging consumers. Focus groups and surveys confirm strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment coming due. TPG must decide whether to sell the business and get out "whole," or whether it can develop and execute a more successful strategy going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 807-143 NCH Capital is considering whether to sell its Ukrainian company Univermag Ukraina, which it has held and built up over the past decade. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
company founded by the Aga Khan fund for economic development in Afghanistan during an ongoing civil conflict. Company leaders must now decide financial and market strategy for the next phase of development of the company. Should they View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Henry Ford think he could keep selling black-only Model Ts? "Denial has always been a problem," writes Harvard Business School historian Richard S. Tedlow in a new book, Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face-and What... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
produce and sell personal computers. They all learned the importance of being smart, effective stewards of themselves, their employees, and the opportunities and resources they controlled. They saw the importance of carrying out their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
a hunting and fishing equipment retailer in the U.S. In June of 2003, founders Dick and Jim Cabela wanted to liquidate some of their holdings. However, Cabela's was not ready for an IPO, and the brothers were not interested in selling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia’s impending bankruptcy, the FDIC intervened again, voting on Monday, September 29, to sell Wachovia’s retail bank to Citigroup for $1 a share. Three days later, Wells Fargo offered $7 a share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
develop a supply model to predict product development responses to changes in store locations. Through policy simulations, I discover that the firm uses outlet stores to serve lower-value consumers who self-select by traveling to outlet stores from central shopping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne