Publications

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

Western corporate strategies have long been held up as role models for businesses in emerging markets. The reaction to recent financial crises in Asia and Latin America has only served to reinforce this... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

01 Apr 2001
News

Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

Portnet a global standard, particularly as the state-run corporation expands overseas. It now has about ten port ventures in seven countries. Khoo reckons that within the next six years, more than a third of PSA’s business will come from... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

January 2014 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Mittal Steel's Pursuit of Arcelor (A)

By: Paul M. Healy and Penelope Rossano

Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of Mittal Steel, a UK-based company with Indian roots, took advantage of a weakened Arcelor that had successfully won a bidding war for Canadian steel company Dofasco, with an unsolicited bid to buy the company. Mittal's plans for acquiring Arcelor... View Details

Keywords: Fiduciary Duty; Steel; India; Europe; Governance; Mergers; Board Decisions; White Knight; Strategy; Negotiation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Steel Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; Russia; India

May 2023 (Revised July 2023)
Case

Ferrari: Shifting to Carbon Neutrality

By: Raffaella Sadun, Elena Corsi and Leila Doumi

A sports car manufacturer commits to carbon neutrality and to electrifying a large part of its car fleet. View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership Style; Auto Industry; Italy

November 2012
Case

Sugar Bowl

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Alisa Zalosh

Shelby Givens, a recent business school graduate, returned home to Raleigh, North Carolina, to help rescue her family's ailing and outdated bowling alley, Westlake Lanes. Although she cut costs and addressed inefficiencies, moving the business from near-bankruptcy to... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Performance; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Raleigh

May 1991
Case

Firestone, Inc.: Globalization

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; Corporate Strategy

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20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

questions still to be answered,” Toffel says. “Right now, it’s still early days as CEOs think through the potential opportunities and risks.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: FangXiaNuo] Related Reading: When CEOs Become... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

right funds to follow. Since distinguishing ability from luck in investing is always a challenge, that last requirement may not be so easy to fulfill. Q: Do you think the Web-based data input accounting standards such as XBRL would affect the fund investment View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

April 2004
Teaching Note

Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises (Multi-Media Case)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Teaching Note to (9-304-034). View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Brands and Branding; Perspective; Segmentation; Management Teams

January 2000 (Revised February 2000)
Case

The HBS California Research Center

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scott D Landry

Harvard Business School's (HBS) California Research Center, a three-year experiment initiated in July 1997 to facilitate research, case-writing, and course development centered in the Silicon Valley Region, has been a "phenomenal success." In June 1999, HBS Dean Kim... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Success; Education Industry; San Francisco