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- March 1991 (Revised January 1996)
- Case
The General Mills Board and Strategic Planning
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Examines the General Mills Board of Directors' role in the General Mills joint venture with Nestle S.A. to sell cereals outside of North America. It raises the more general question of the appropriate role for the board of directors in strategy formulation.
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Joint Ventures;
Trade;
Corporate Governance;
Managerial Roles;
Expansion;
Food and Beverage Industry;
North America
Lorsch, Jay W. "The General Mills Board and Strategic Planning." Harvard Business School Case 491-117, March 1991. (Revised January 1996.)
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
experimentation will improve performance over time. However, the benefits of experimentation vary. Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- News
Last Look - September 2010
course, but I suspect that this might have been the occasion for the photo.” Sectionmate Brion Applegate added, “For the life of me I can’t remember the case or the surrounding circum-stances!” And sectionmate E.Y. Snowden wrote, “I’m pretty sure the guy in the middle...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
approach that takes both ethical and economic imperatives seriously. Paine's book speaks directly to those responsible for a company's performance —executives, entrepreneurs, directors, managers — but any stakeholder in the global economy...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
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by Ann Cullen
- September 2001 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
DIENA
By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Requires students to draw a new organization structure diagram for a rapidly evolving business. A/S DIENA is a newspaper publisher founded during Latvia's 1990/91 struggle for independence from the USSR with a clear social mission to support democracy. With the help of...
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Yiwei Li
managerial accounting—using data to solve an organization’s problems, which has very broad applications.” Yiwei notes that he prefers management accounting to economics because it’s more practical and...
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- Student-Profile
Patrick Ferguson
Patrick Ferguson (he/him) has always been inclined to combine interests that might not seem compatible at first glance. During his undergraduate career at the University of Melbourne, he received a B.A. in English and History, and a B.Com in View Details
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Belco Global Foods (TN)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
Teaching Note for 211033.
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- Profile
Nicola Leahy-MacManus
career. I was also attracted by the idea of learning in a classroom full of bright individuals from many different backgrounds. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My Harvard Business School experience has enabled me to transition from consulting to a...
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- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Transparency, the concept if not the reality, is all the rage in business circles. If you knew why a company charged a certain price for a product, would you be more willing to pay it? If your boss confessed her managerial screw-ups,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
1991 to 1994, he served as the first senior associate dean, director of financial and information systems, at HBS. He has coauthored five books and written nearly two hundred cases and articles. The Managerial Implications of Deregulation...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman There is no shortage of evidence demonstrating that the hiring process is one of the ways in which economic inequalities are perpetuated. Take, for example, the...
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- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50873 Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Drawing on her left- and right-brain strengths, Grace Ng (MBA 2019) double-majored in economics and film at Rice University. “That might seem unusual to some, but I found having these two interests...
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- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
the same way Art Schleifer showed us in Managerial Economics in my first year at HBS. And I do try to use the Socratic Method when I teach. You can’t hide in my classroom.”
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of...
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- October 2010
- Supplement
Belco Global Foods: Spreadsheet Supplement (CW)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
This case introduces students to the fundamental issues that managers face when deciding what international trade finance terms to use when transacting with other firms. In late 2009, Pam Arnold, the Head of Global Credit at Belco Global Foods must decide which trade...
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