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- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more economically interconnected... View Details
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
On April 3, 2013, Hani Barhoush and Oscar Fahlgren of Mubadala Capital (“Mubadala”) considered how to salvage Mubadala’s $2 billion preferred equity investment of a 5.63% stake in the EBX Group. At the time, EBX was the holding company of a myriad of subsidiaries and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
third-party retail sales might cannibalize some of Amazon's own revenues in certain product categories. Then Amazon went a step further with its Prime membership announcement, offering participants free shipping for all transactions for... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
development project at BBA might progress in the following way: A customer requests a meaty flavor for a soy product, and the sample must be delivered within a week. BBA marketing professionals and flavorists jump into action, and the sample is View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
low-cost PC options had emerged and OLPC had not started shipping yet, leading some observers to wonder if the non-profit should reconsider its strategy and options. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Business School Case 207-092 How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
which collects and parses shipping information from US Customs and Border Protection. "From there we simply tested: If you have a lot of one country's ethnic makeup around you, are you more likely to import or export from that country?"... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
sites, transfer new product lines, update technologies, etc. Another cost of outsourcing is the cost of inventory. A part might be manufactured cheaply in Mexico, but shipping the part involves inventory, not to mention delays and risks.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
launches an initiative to solve this problem and identifies the number of spare power supply parts it sends out weekly as the measure it will use to track the progress. The transactional measure—the number of spare parts shipped... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407071 Free the Grapes—Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry Harvard Business School Case 707-472 While wine tourism in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Supplement
Mara Group (B)
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 114-061, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.)
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
million boxes of fresh oranges shipped out of state were colored with synthetic dyes.” By the 1930s, synthetic food dyes were used routinely in sausages, pastas, candies, ice cream, and a host of other foods. By 2016, the global food dye... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
mostly unskilled. They created molds for soles and other components that then could be shipped elsewhere for production. As a result, the local workforce dropped by 15 percent between 2006 and 2012. "What happens in some contexts is that... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American Revolution, Boston became a major... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309074 Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (A) Harvard Business School Case 808-158 Considers the entrepreneurial career of the founder of Mitsubishi, Yataro Iwasaki, who built a large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
parts order comes through, so they have the part ready to ship as soon as the order is placed. 86 Here too, GM was attempting to replicate the new business models pioneered by companies like Dell and Cisco. However, GM was not alone in... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510055-PDF-ENG Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Lynn S. Paine and Lara AdamsonsHarvard Business School Case 310-043 Richard Wingfield considers whether to continue a cooperative agreement with industry peers in the deep-sea... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/Belk--Towards-Exceptional/an/415023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-002 Reinventing Retail: ShopRunner's Network Bet ShopRunner considers adjustments to improve its online shopping service, which offers no-charge two-day View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
set out to surmount the Soconusco's geographical isolation. He sent surveyors to assess the region, he negotiated the approval of an international port, and he arranged for an international shipping company to stop there once a month.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
risks of changing life expectancy, inflation, and interest rates. Course Corrections Merton uses the analogy of an ocean liner sailing from England to New York. When just out of port, there are many unforeseen things to correct for along the way so a precise course is... View Details