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  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • September 1986 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

Eastern Electric Apparatus Repair Company (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Harry Gruner
As principals engaged in structuring leveraged buyouts for a well-capitalized risk arbitrage firm, Bob Meehan and George Schwartz are preparing to bid for the business and assets of a Westinghouse subsidiary. The case focuses on the value of the opportunity, methods of... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Bids and Bidding; Opportunities; Business Subsidiaries; Strategy; Valuation; Equity; Electronics Industry
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  • November 1991 (Revised January 1995)
  • Case

Teradyne Japan

By: Michael Y. Yoshino
Describes a parent-subsidiary relationship in the high technology industry. The subsidiary, located in Japan, has been expanding its activities throughout the 1980s in the face of stiff local competition. Examines the dilemma facing corporate and country management as... View Details
Keywords: Relationships; Mergers and Acquisitions; Expansion; Competition; Business or Company Management; Communication; Buildings and Facilities; Business Subsidiaries; Japan
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  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

victory from the Czech Republic. Železný somehow managed to turn the loss to his advantage and ended up a member of the European Parliament. For business managers and investors, the story of TV Nova and the joint venture that spawned it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

effectiveness information. These findings could spur more effective labeling policies that facilitate healthier choices, do not decrease overall beverage purchases, and are publicly accepted. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54008 2018... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609050 NEC Electronics Harvard Business School Case 209-001 Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC, trade at a discount to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

patterns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53100 June 12, 2017 Harvard Business Review Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here's How to Fix It By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Yuchun Lee Abstract— U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

incremental to the effects of other forms of organizational structure, namely business and geographic diversification. I also find that the level of debt at subsidiaries affects the parent company's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

situations that challenge his loyalties, conscience, and sense of duty. The book, which will be made into a movie, took Kim 20 years to write. Kim sees no conflict between the business and literary parts of his life. “I like doing deals... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

America Harvard Business School Case 908-004 Describes the auction of Cable & Wireless America (CWA), a bankrupt subsidiary of the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. While an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308052 Monitor's Opportunities in India (B): Grail Research Harvard Business School Supplement 708-483 Supplements the (A) case. Describes the decision by leaders of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-066 Steinhoff International: Accounting Irregularities and Financial Markets Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. was a holding company... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • December 1999 (Revised October 2003)
  • Case

BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Two new product launch decisions face Christopher Carson, managing director of BRL Hardy, Europe. Responsible for the European operations of a major Australian wine company, Carson has begun to globalize his strategy beyond selling the parent company's wines. After a... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Joint Ventures; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Negotiation Style; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 25 Jan 2017
  • HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

company’s obligation lie? The struggle over the advertising of India’s fairness creams is the centerpiece of a March 2016 case “Fair & Lovely vs. Dark Is Beautiful,” which was written by Rohit Deshpandé, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAvaya (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-048 Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace