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Chris Hurst
deployed to Kuwait and Egypt, where he worked with international partners and supported the flow of engineer troops and materiel into the Middle East. These experiences, plus a subsequent civilian role managing infrastructure planning... View Details
- November 2010
- Supplement
Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details
- June 1992 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
The CFO of Fleetwood Enterprises is considering whether to recommend a large share repurchase to the board of directors. Fleetwood's core businesses, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles, are very sensitive to business cycles and oil prices. Following Iraq's... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital Structure; Stock Shares; Price; Crisis Management; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Iraq; Kuwait
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990." Harvard Business School Case 293-013, June 1992. (Revised March 1993.)
- June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
YAAS's Service Center
By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Emotions; Values; Compensation and Benefits; Human Resources; Labor; Negotiation; Organizations; Social Psychology; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Kuwait; Middle East
Hall, Brian, and Sara del Nido. "YAAS's Service Center." Harvard Business School Case 914-049, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- 30 Oct 2019
- Video
Kutayba Alghanim
Kutayba Alghanim, Chairman of Kuwait-based Alghanim Industries, a highly diversified business group, discusses the strategies of his son Omar (the group’s current CEO) to recruit more Kuwaitis and more women... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
East with its dependence on foreign oil a factor (as President George H.W. Bush said at the time, freeing oil-rich Kuwait was necessary “to defend our way of life”). Yet even this wake-up call, the Gulf War of 1991, was also eventually... View Details
- October 1994
- Teaching Note
Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc.,1990 (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for (9-293-013). View Details
- June 2019 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries
By: Paul M. Healy, Susanna Gallani and Esel Çekin
Building on his father’s legacy, Omar Alghanim (MBA 2002) had been working on strengthening a performance-driven culture based on meritocracy in the family business, Alghanim Industries. The task had been particularly challenging because of traditional Middle East... View Details
Keywords: Meritocracy; Social Norms; Family Business; Organizational Culture; Performance; Diversity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Middle East; Kuwait
Healy, Paul M., Susanna Gallani, and Esel Çekin. "Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries." Harvard Business School Case 119-019, June 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
- June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Supplement
YAAS's Service Center (B)
By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Emotions; Values; Human Resources; Labor; Negotiation; Organizations; Social Psychology; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Kuwait; Middle East
Hall, Brian, and Sara del Nido. "YAAS's Service Center (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-050, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
in Kuwait against nearly 2,000 other applicants. It was there that Parija came to the attention of two high-level executives who were HBS alumni—Aubyn Hill (MBA 1978) and Amal Wahab (MBA 1987). "I was extremely impressed with these two... View Details
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy (TN)
Teaching Note for [809004]. View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
sense of relief when it’s over but we have only a short time to relax before climbing into the cockpit again. (JEA, ed.) Coppa, in middle, at Kuwait staging area Courtesy Michael Coppa A graduate of West Point, Captain Michael N. Coppa... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
and is an adjunct faculty member teaching digital marketing at NYU and Rutgers. He has shared stories of growing up in Dubai and Kuwait on RISK! and The Moth Radio Hour. View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
the Startup Grind in Kuwait City Verses Please come right in and take a seat We’re very glad you’re here! Can’t wait to tell you all the things we’re planning for the year. The sign-in sheet is going ‘round; make sure your name is clear... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511137-PDF-ENG The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Case 912-002 In 2007, the Dow Chemical Company and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1987
- Book
Banking and Oil
By: Geoffrey Jones
This is the second of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Economics; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Business History; Problems and Challenges; Iran; Jordan; Kuwait; Oman; Dubai
Jones, Geoffrey. Banking and Oil. Vol. 2, History of the British Bank of the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
http://hbr.org/search/613053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-107 Ibrahim Dabdoub at the National Bank of Kuwait Ibrahim Dabdoub, the group chief executive of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK),... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino