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May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
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Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer

The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. View Details

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Purchase

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

structures (in which some regions seem to be much larger than others) are often preferable to an aesthetically pleasing (and in some respects simpler) symmetry of the sort implicitly evoked by much of the discussion up to this point. Even... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

I think that the rejection of pro-market reforms in Latin America or Eastern Europe or Africa is not related to economic interests, as most economists claim, but to the way that people see the world,"... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

empowering its black affinity network led to a sevenfold growth on the continent of Africa in seven years. He also is researching the dynamics that lead to blacks being chosen as chief executives—focusing on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

Business School. Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Laura Castrillo is the former head of analytics for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at True Fit. [Image: iStockphoto/cybrain] How has... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

It's a pittance in the West. A loan of only $500 to $1,200, however, can make all the difference for a man or woman eking out a living in the developing world. Just that much—the typical range of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

rate—a stark reminder of the perils of owning intellectual property in China at that time. Turning to the Internet itself, and particularly to content-sharing sites, the matter of ownership is challenged... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

317-013 Tolaram: Innovating in Africa Tolaram is a Singaporean company that began operations selling textiles in Nigeria in the 1970s. Executives... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

with enormous increases in wealth, as well as dramatic rises in the longevity, of humanity. Yet capitalism too has had its dark side. The book contains multiple examples of the amoral nature of global... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

auto makers have made advances, and Korean manufacturers are focusing on improving their quality and innovating on warranties and assurance programs to remove consumer uncertainty. Much further down the road, competition will come from View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

to develop agricultural diagnostics for rural farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to detect milk spoilage, corn mold, and a cow's breeding status. "The entrepreneurial bug has definitely bitten me," says Puz.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

consider other options in China. "I have no regrets," he adds, "because I learned so much from that experience." Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International's View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

from a distraught student. She was born and raised in one of the banned countries, and held a Canadian passport as well as a passport from that banned country. Her family was located in Canada and the United... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
Teaching Note

Uber: Competing Globally

By: Alexander J. MacKay

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details

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