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  • October 2009
  • Case

Noble Group

By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Matthew Johnson and Linnea Meyer
What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Capital; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Risk Management; Supply Chain Management; Hong Kong
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  • 02 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

one big thing. The next issue was course development. Along those lines, Richard Bohmer and I created a new course, Managing Medicine, back in 1999. I collaborated with Richard, but it was really his idea and his thrust. However, outside... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Conduct, your jobs are secure. This decision was made with 100 percent support of the Firm’s Operating Committee. At the end of this year, we will know what we are dealing with, and hopefully, the economy will be on the mend by then.”... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

    Iavor I. Bojinov

    Iavor Bojinov is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and the Richard Hodgson Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and... View Details

    • November 2002 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    MedSource Technologies

    By: Robert S. Huckman
    Considers the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Production; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Management Teams; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • January 1997 (Revised June 1997)
    • Case

    Southwire: Beyond 2000

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
    Southwire, based in Carrollton, GA, was the leading producer of aluminum and copper rod, wire, and cable for the transmission and distribution of electricity. In one decade, CEO Roy Richards, Jr. grew annual sales from $500 million in 1985 to $1.9 billion in 1995, an... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 10 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

    ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on structured products were a historic... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Research Summary

    Technological Change and Competitive Strategy

    Richard S. Rosenbloom continues to explore issues in the strategic management of technology and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy. He is currently investigating the histories of radical technological innovations and their... View Details

      Ethan S. Bernstein

      Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details

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      Financial Risk Management

      By: Richard F. Meyer
      Richard F. Meyer is exploring the theory and practice of financial risk management in corporations worldwide. Three primary objectives of his research are: to understand the underlying sources of risk and corporations' exposure to them; to identify appropriate,... View Details
      • March 2022
      • Case

      Copper Nationalization in Chile

      By: Jeremy Friedman, John Masko and Jingyu Liu
      In 1970 Chile became the first country to elect a Marxist president through open, multi-party elections in Salvador Allende. In his first year as president, Allende nationalized the copper industry, Chile’s largest export industry that was developed and owned by US... View Details
      Keywords: Nationalism; History; Political Elections; Natural Resources; Globalized Markets and Industries; National Security; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Chile
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      • January 1993 (Revised November 1997)
      • Case

      BayBank Boston

      In 1992, the Federal Reserve released a study of mortgage lending patterns in Boston. It concluded that even when credit factors were taken into account, black and Hispanic applicants experienced higher rejection rates. Richard Pollard, chairman of BayBank Boston, had... View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Ethics; Race; Mortgages; Banking Industry; Boston
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      • 21 May 2018
      • HBS Case

      How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

      company executives debating how to set the price for its latest innovation, the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds watch. The CEO, head of production, and head of product development all had an equal say in pricing the limited edition platinum... View Details
      Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
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      The Role of Financial and Information Intermediaries in the Capital Markets

      Hutton's research investigates the role of financial analysts and short sellers in the pricing of equity securities. Recently, Hutton examines (with Patricia Dechow and Richard Sloan) the role of sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts in the pricing of common equity... View Details
      • 03 Dec 2008
      • What Do You Think?

      Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

      books, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, maintains that too much economic theory, formed by "Econs," is based on the behavior of homo economicus (economic man,... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett
      • 06 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

      market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
      • 01 Dec 2003
      • What Do You Think?

      Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

      a vile 'market timer' is a sad commentary on how inflexibly the mutual fund industry is viewed by academics, regulators and distributors." Richard Eckel suggests that both perceptions and real problems... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 25 Aug 2017
      • Op-Ed

      Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

      President Trump’s recent pullout from the Paris climate accord drew the ire of many high-visibility CEOs including Richard Branson, Lloyd Blankfein, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jeffrey Immelt. But the president’s statements around... View Details
      Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda