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    International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications

    The comprehensive guide to managing and leading companies that compete internationally

    Drawing on the course material developed at the Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management by David Collis, International Strategy... View Details

    • June 2007 (Revised September 2021)
    • Case

    Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Grace Ballor and Adrian Brown
    Considers the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a manufacturer of punch cards, in Nazi Germany before 1937. Opens with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting Adolf Hitler in his capacity as President of the International Chamber of Commerce. IBM had acquired a German company... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Values and Beliefs; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Germany; United States
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    • September 2016
    • Case

    Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (A)

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
    Explores strategies to achieve system-level impact for a nonprofit focused on addressing patients' basic social needs through healthcare institutions. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit; Healthcare; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Reform; Health Care Delivery; Scaling Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Health; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    • 03 Oct 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

    additional trucks and hired a team of drivers, a move that enabled him to get off the road and look for new customers. For the next two years, his business thrived, but when poor economic conditions forced many of his newly won customers... View Details
    Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
    • 27 Jul 2014
    • News

    Are We Seeing A Manufacturing Renaissance?

      Growth and Shared Prosperity

      In June 2015, 73 chief executives, mayors, governors, university presidents, economists, and thought leaders from across the political spectrum gathered at Harvard Business School to work on a question of deep and growing concern in the United States: How can our... View Details
      • August 2007
      • Column

      Pitch Your Offer—and Close the Deal

      By: Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman
      The article offers several strategies on how to be a good negotiator and decision maker for business developments. The strategies that are presented were an extract from the book Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Negotiation; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy
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      • 2016
      • Chapter

      Unpacking the Dynamics of Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      Book Abstract: The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Transformation; Australia; New Zealand; China; United States; Europe; Southeast Asia
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      • February 2005 (Revised April 2006)
      • Case

      Rx Depot: Importing Drugs from Canada

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In 2002, a handful of entrepreneurs began to ship drugs from Canada into the United States, taking advantage of regulatory and price differentials across the neighboring countries. Using the Internet and a low-cost network of Canadian pharmacies, firms like Rx Depot... View Details
      Keywords: Courts and Trials; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Laws and Statutes; Pharmaceutical Industry; Canada; United States
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      • 04 Oct 2019
      • News

      GPIF’s Hiromichi Mizuno’s Term Is Extended for Six Months

      • 12 Dec 2023
      • Blog Post

      Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

      freshly honed business acumen. Navigating the complex corridors of a multinational's existing strategies was part of the game. My recommendations needed not only to be insightful but also to harmonize with... View Details
      • 24 Jul 2014
      • News

      The Future of Talent Is Potential

      • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
      • Case

      d.light

      By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
      Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to... View Details
      Keywords: Alternative Energy; Business Model; Capital; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Renewable Energy; Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Africa; Kenya; India
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      • 03 Mar 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

      "I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
      • Case

      AT&T Resource Link: Revisioning the Managerial Workforce

      Resource Link is an in-house temporary firm, supplying managers and technical workers to the 26 business units of AT&T on a contract basis. The challenge facing Resource Link is how to grow, since an increasing number of managers are eager to use variable workers to... View Details
      Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Organizational Design; Personal Development and Career; Employment Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      • 30 Dec 2010
      • News

      Shrink It, Cure It

      • 09 Nov 2020
      • News

      After a hard election, the real work begins

      • 30 Oct 2019
      • Video

      María Emilia Correa

      María Emilia Correa, co-founder of Sistema B, a Latin American organization promoting B Corporations and sustainability, discusses the origins of the B Corporation in the United States, and how she and her... View Details
      • April 1997
      • Case

      Pricing for Profit: The UK Credit Card Industry in the Late 1980s (A)

      Describes the United Kingdom credit card industry in the late 1980s, which was really three businesses: a cashless transaction business for merchants, a cashless transaction business for card holders, and a credit business for card holders. At the time of the case,... View Details
      Keywords: Credit Cards; Price; Decision Making; Game Theory; United Kingdom
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      • February 2023
      • Teaching Note

      Colette Phillips and GetKonnected: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-035. View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
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