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  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing firms (or brands) can face a larger demand for new products than new entrants. Moreover, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 2010
  • Book

Unilever'i Yenilemek: Dönüşüm ve Gelenek [Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition]

By: Geoffrey Jones
Unilever's brands can now be found in one out of every two households in the world. This arresting and impressive fact shows the scope and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Globalization; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

networks, product packaging, and financing instruments to meet the needs and requirements of very poor customers. As members of the School's Global Poverty Project (GPP), Kash Rangan, John Quelch, and other faculty members have studied... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • Fast Answer

Managing Global Operations

products and industries worldwide from Euromonitor International. Useful for understanding consumer lifestyles.   Business Source Complete Articles and examples from academic and industry publications on topics in this category, such... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Career to Smile About

Foods, joined Colgate in 1988 as head of its Far East and Canada operations. "How do you take an idea or product that may work in Latin America and introduce it into Asia or Africa, instantaneously? All View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Brand China Can Succeed

tightened and enforced nationwide. Western multinationals have a role to play in ensuring their Chinese subcontractors deliver on quality, but Beijing must push provincial governments to upgrade and enforce existing laws. Tough sentences... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • November 2008
  • Teaching Note

Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule
Teaching Note for [807167]. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Information Technology; Transformation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • August 2009
  • Teaching Note

Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A): Becoming Truly Global (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [309030]. View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Value; Multinational Firms and Management; Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2009
  • Teaching Note

Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (C): Integrating Gillette (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [309032]. View Details
Keywords: Integration; Mission and Purpose; Value; Problems and Challenges; Transition; Business Units; Governance Controls; Multinational Firms and Management; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

devastating and saddening human costs, the earthquake in Japan is another reminder of the complexity of the world's supply chains and the great interdependencies in global production systems. The world's supply chains are complex and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

linkages with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

was on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq, in the office of General Joseph Medina to talk about his future. In addition to leading a multinational unit on everything from reconnaissance to route security, Rogers was serving as a general’s aide,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 06 Dec 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

analyzers and advisors, aggregators and distributors, transaction facilitators, and more. A useful starting point for managers is to construct an institutional map to identify institutional voids—which may themselves present business opportunities. Western View Details