Publications

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The Business View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

30 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered

Keywords: by Noel Maurer; Energy; Utilities

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

benefitted from the change in ownership. This paper presents data and evidence that supports only the first of those assertions, and only to a limited extent: the companies devised political strategies that maneuvered Roosevelt into... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2013
What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

of coffee prior to the board meeting. Instead of summoning someone to clean it up, he asked a colleague to get him cleaning compound and a cloth, things easily found in a company that provided cleaning services. Whereupon he proceeded to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise

By: Michael Chu, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Yuanzhuo Wang

This case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive... View Details

Keywords: State-owned Enterprise (SOE); Traditional Chinese Medicine; Yunnan; Yunnan Baiyao; Consumer Health; Enterprise Transformation; Transformation; Health; Business History; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

June 2022
Case

Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization

By: Jeremy Friedman and Jingyu Liu

Many of the West’s political problems in the Middle East and in Iran in particular can be traced to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh by military forces supported by the American CIA and the British MI6 in August 1953. Mossadegh, at the head of a... View Details

Keywords: Neo-imperialism; History; Conflict Management; War; Globalized Economies and Regions; Natural Resources; National Security; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries; Middle East; Iran

14 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

etc.) to implement the new strategy. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109015 BMW's Project Switch (B): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Beauty & Cosmetics

2008
Case

Great Negotiator Case Study Package

By: James K. Sebenius, Jeswald Salacuse, Daniel Curran, Rebecca Hulse and Kristin Schneeman

This special curriculum package includes the following case studies in the Great Negotiator Case Study Series, each of which features a past recipient of PON's Great Negotiator Award:

2000 PON Great Negotiator: "To Hell with the Future, Let's Get... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2007 (Revised May 2012)
Case

PRG-Schultz International

By: Paul W. Marshall and James Weber

PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms which employed accounting professionals... View Details

Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Restructuring; Cost Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

emerged in areas ranging from labor markets to credit applications to housing—sometimes made worse by a lack of regulation, the absence of in-person interactions, and the use of automation and big data. How can companies reverse the tide?... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Dec 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2016
First Look

April 12, 2016

company examples such as eBay, Lending Club, and Airbnb to offer practical advice for avoiding those hazards. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50940 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Culture Is Not the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Article

Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio

This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil