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  • November 2019 (Revised January 2020)
  • Supplement

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy (B)

By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
After the legendary founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) retired, the new chairman had to grapple with fresh challenges related to its China market: a recently opened factory in China had to find ways to reverse its financial loss and meet its... View Details
Keywords: Cross-cultural; Foreign Investment; Government; Business and Government Relations; Globalization; Change Management; Customer Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Global Strategy; Leadership; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; China
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  • June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Renewing Germany: Kohl's Legacy and Schroder's Dilemma

By: Huw Pill, Michael Linse, Marie-Anne Popp and Ingrid Vogel
The German economy has long been seen as the locomotive of European (and, on occasion, global) growth. Germany appeared to weather the stagflation of the 1970s more successfully than many other economies, and reunification in 1990 appeared to present opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economy; Policy; Germany
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    Louis E. Caldera

    Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Mattias E. Fibiger
    Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

    Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
    • October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar
    This case describes how Ambareen Musa, Founder and CEO of Souqalmal, a Dubai-based online comparison aggregator of banking and insurance products launched her business in 2011 and rapidly grew it over next couple of years. However, by 2017, the Mauritian entrepreneur... View Details
    Keywords: Unit Economics; Finance; Accounting; Competitive Strategy; Financial Statements; Insurance Industry; Middle East
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    • April 2021
    • Case

    The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition

    By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
    In May 2019, amidst of an ever-worsening trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump added Chinese telecom giant Huawei to the Department of Commerce’s “entity list,” essentially forbidding American firms from doing business with the company. Huawei,... View Details
    Keywords: 5G; Telecommunications; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Trade; Competition; International Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China
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    • 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
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    • April 2017 (Revised February 2023)
    • Case

    Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Kathy Choi
    This case examines the entrepreneurial career of Helena Rubinstein before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started... View Details
    Keywords: Female Entrepreneur; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

    By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green and Eugene B. Kogan
    Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union,... View Details
    Keywords: Kissinger; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Coercive Diplomacy; Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; United States
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    • February 2023
    • Module Note

    Illiberalism and Interdependence

    By: Meg Rithmire
    This module note explains the themes of Illiberalism and Interdependence, the cases and readings used to teach these themes, and how the themes fit into the MITI course. After decades of international political economy scholarship focusing on the impact of rules, there... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Globalized Economies and Regions; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Economic Systems
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

    By: Jeremy Friedman
    A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

    In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
    Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • 31 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

    Imagine you’re a consultant and you notice a few eyebrow-raising behaviors, such as a colleague who misuses a client’s meal stipend or an executive who screams inappropriately at his staff. Should you step in and speak up? For consultants, especially those starting... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
    • May–June 2015
    • Article

    Dead Weight: How Greece Wound up Trapped in the European Union

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the early 1990s, Greece fell far afield of the economic criteria laid out by the Maastricht Treaty, the EU's founding document. In 1999, when the European monetary union was launched, Greece failed to meet the criteria again, but managed to squeeze into the body two... View Details
    Keywords: EU; Geopolitics; Economic Conditions; Economy; Financial Crisis; Greece; European Union
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    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    "impressive." 21 By 1939 Spry's sales had reached 75 percent of Crisco's, but the resulting price war meant that Lever made no profit on the product until 1941. Lever's sales in general reached as... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
    • March 2016 (Revised November 2021)
    • Teaching Note

    T-Mobile in 2013: The Un-Carrier

    By: John Beshears and Francesca Gino
    By 2013, the U.S. wireless industry was in the midst of a costly transition. As consumers began to embrace more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data... View Details
    Keywords: Wireless Industry; Telecommunications; Mobile; Service Contracts; Behavioral Economics; Add-on Fees; Shrouded Attributes; Contracts; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
    This working paper examines corporate strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a German-based pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks... View Details
    Keywords: History; Risk Management; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Intellectual Property; Cooperation; Business and Government Relations; Germany
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    • 29 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor

    Keywords: by Faaiza Rashid & Amy C. Edmondson
    • 2019
    • Article

    Industrie-Holding: Creating a Community of Interest among Swiss 'Multinationals'

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This article focuses on the genesis and evolution of Industrie-Holding, a federation of Swiss multinationals, from 1942 onwards. Thanks to recent donations from the Alusuisse and Hero archives, historians now have access to the minutes of the Industrie-Holding... View Details
    Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Multinationals; Lobbying; Business and Government Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Switzerland
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    • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
    Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing

    By: Ai Hisano
    This working paper examines how innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details
    Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Business History; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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