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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
that chance. What are some of that story's highlights? One striking aspect is that by the mid-1980s, the United States had almost entirely lost both the computer and the consumer electronics industries... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made... View Details
Charles R. Walgreen III
Charles Walgreen, III continued the tradition of success begun by his father and grandfather. Under his leadership, Walgreens stores continued to expand its existing operations and also entered the restaurant business. By 1979, the company operated some 600 stores in... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
that keep executives awake at night. But before you can do that, you have to find out what keeps them awake at night. Who did you talk to? At this point, my research associates and I have interviewed over 250 people in the United View Details
- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Teaching Note
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural... View Details
Keywords: Women; Racism; Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Innovation and Invention; City; Culture; Miami
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
emission reductions than the current regulatory approach. To keep the United States competitive with other countries, the plan would include a simple provision to impose the fee at the border on any energy... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States
Kirby, William C., and Noah B. Truwit. "Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 323-101, June 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
explains. “Rather than abandon U.S. manufacturing, my thinking was that once we had established a capability in China, we could then reinvest back in the United States and reinvent ourselves as a global... View Details
Juan T. Trippe
Known for his sharp negotiating skills, Trippe built PanAm into the world’s only truly global air carrier. Trippe’s success at PanAm was due in large part to his cooperation with different branches of national governments, winning large mail contracts in 1927 between... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
performance, and innovation. Peterson and three colleagues from Emory were among the program’s 68 participants from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. “We’ve always felt there was an... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
China Construction America (A): The Road Ahead
How did a Chinese state-owned construction company strike one deal after another in South Carolina despite political backlash and in New York where well-established competitors dominate? The case examines the U.S. market entry strategy of the CSCEC, China's leading... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Negotiation Deal; State Ownership; Construction Industry; China; United States
Abrami, Regina M., and Weiqi Zhang. "China Construction America (A): The Road Ahead." Harvard Business School Case 911-408, March 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
in Brazil. Furloughs as an alternative to layoffs are used less frequently in the United States than in the rest of the world. Sucher’s case on Honeywell reveals how the firm—the only one of its US peers to... View Details
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International Students | MBA
of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Sanctions: Lenders based in the United States (including the Harvard University Employees Credit Union) may not be able or willing to make loans to students from countries... View Details
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Rosita Najmi
I have two heroes: Tahereh and Tahirih. 1848: The state of women in Iran was dire – being a woman meant suppression, servitude, and violence. Then came Tahirih – erudite and brave, a poet and scholar. In that year, at a large gathering of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
calamitous for the United States as well. What's been the impact of NAFTA on the current situation? Unquestionably, Mexico must modernize its economy; NAFTA is a vital component of that. But when you force a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
Mercedes-Benz launched the super-premium auto brand after opting out of the bidding for Rolls Royce and Bentley in the 1990s. The company estimated there are 200,000 individuals in the United States with a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
In June 2000, when the National Commission on Terrorism released its report, the commission's chairman, L. Paul ("Jerry") Bremer III (MBA '66), issued a warning. "There's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the View Details