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- February 2005
- Article
European Integration and Corporate Restructuring: The Strategy of Unilever c1957-c1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Peter Miskell
This article examines the role of the large Anglo-Dutch consumer products company in promoting European integration. It shows that Unilever contributed financially to campaigns to support the creation of the European Union, and its subsequent expansion, despite a... View Details
Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Organizations; Policy; Expansion; Market Transactions; Geographic Location; Restructuring; Competition; Brands and Branding; Production; Capital Structure; Value; Consumer Products Industry; European Union; United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Peter Miskell. "European Integration and Corporate Restructuring: The Strategy of Unilever c1957-c1990." Economic History Review 58, no. 1 (February 2005): 113–139.
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
might even be impeded by, an international agreement. As he put it, because "scale advantage is reversed" in the alternative energy field, change "will be driven from the bottom, not the top." In other words, will... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
want to capitalize on the first-movers' research and development. . . . Regardless of the type of complexity, whether product- or choice-related, the consumer is ultimately overwhelmed." Addressing the issue of product complexity, K.... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
(see Figure 2-3) and several new internal business objectives. Mobil U.S. Marketing and Refining, like Rockwater, moved to a new "customer intimacy" strategy that would offer a superior buying... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
About the MBA/MPA-ID Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is... View Details
- October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)
By: Peter Tufano
ABN-AMRO, the largest bank in the Netherlands, must decide whether to take any action in regard to the poor performance of Smit Transformatoren, a Dutch transformer manufacturer. ABN-AMRO acted as lead underwriter for the IPO of Smit, and also released a favorable... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Netherlands
Tufano, Peter, and Cameron Poetzscher. "ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 296-030, October 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- 22 Jul 2024
Diverse Student Voices Series: The Black & Latino Experience
Join us for a 20-minute webinar with a current student and get a peek into their life at HBS. On this episode, we’re chatting with Daniel Quental, (MBA 2025), who is currently interning as an Investor at Mu Ventures, a NY-based pre-seed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital View Details
- October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
Blink: The European Air-Taxi Service
By: William A. Sahlman and Jackie Donnelly Russell
This case describes a new venture that is about to launch a Pan-European air-taxi service in 2008. View Details
- Web
Europe - Global Activities 2020
peacekeeping in the region during the Balkan Wars (1991–2001). Pictured: House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia “Serbia makes for an excellent Business, Government, and the International Economy case study,” he says,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
"In India, we are creating two different societies with a large disparity in income as well as access to knowledge and information." In large part, the comments seemed to reflect reactions to both differences in the fluidity of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
UN President Speaks at HBS
The keynote speaker for last October’s International Week at HBS, UN General Assembly president Srgjan Kerim, called on the future leaders in his audience to use capital not only to realize profits but also... View Details
Keywords: Government
- January 2025 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation
By: William C. Kirby and Daniel Fu
DJI was founded in a college dorm room in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. By 2020, DJI, a company manufacturing drones, occupied a 77% share of consumer drone sales in the United States with a wide array of clients including law enforcement and government agencies. Its... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
could go on as usual were out of sync with reality. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail in the days ahead. — Laura Alfaro Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. She has focused extensively on View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using both broad cross-sectional and narrow event-window tests, we find that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
competitive with someone who is personally advising you, and at a fraction of the cost,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. Viceira explores... View Details