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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

The End of Chimerica

By: Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick
For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with US over-consumption. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 likely marks the beginning of the end of the Chimerican... View Details
Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Currency Exchange Rate; Economic Growth; Trade; Financial Crisis; China; United States
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    Rembrand M. Koning

    Rem Koning View Details

    Keywords: high technology; software; biotechnology
    • July 1993 (Revised March 1995)
    • Case

    Millipore Corporate Strategy

    By: Nitin Nohria and V. Kasturi Rangan
    Millipore, a $750 million (sales) company with three divisions, had been growing at a rate of 20% in the 1970s, but this growth rate had slowed considerably in the 1980s. CEO John Gilmartin was looking for ways to reenergize the organization and redirect its strategy... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Organizational Structure
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    • February 1991 (Revised June 1993)
    • Case

    Ross Perot and General Motors

    By: Jay W. Lorsch
    In December, 1986 the General Motors Board of Directors must decide whether to accept the buyout agreement between GM and Ross Perot, a director of GM and its largest stockholder. The agreement called for GM to purchase all of Perot's GM shares in exchange for his... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Stock Shares; Resignation and Termination; Business or Company Management; Agreements and Arrangements
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    • September 1998 (Revised March 2002)
    • Case

    Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C.A.

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
    Petrozuata is a proposed $2.5 billion oil-field development project in Venezuela. The case is set in 1997 as the project sponsors, Conoco and PDVSA (Venezuela's national oil company), are planning to meet with various development agencies and rating agencies regarding... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Valuation; Project Finance; Capital Markets; Investment; Projects; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; Venezuela
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      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
      • September 1998 (Revised August 1999)
      • Case

      IBM's Lotus Development in 1999

      By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
      Describes Lotus' acquisition by IBM, its movement from proprietary standards to open standards, and its current market position. Microsoft is gaining ground with its Exchange Server, and Lotus has received unfavorable press. View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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      • January 2011
      • Case

      A Slice of the Pie: Ruby Collins and Tenants in Common

      By: John D. Macomber and Kristian Peterson
      A securitized small real estate investment vehicle fails and the many individual owners have to decide how to manage or dispose of the asset. This case follows Ruby Collins, a small investor, through the logic of Section 1031 Like Kind Exchanges as well as the... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Investment; Risk Management; Ownership Stake; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Real Estate Industry
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      • 2006
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms? Evidence from US Banks' Control over Firms' Voting Rights

      By: Joao A.C. Santos and Kristin Wilson
      In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control over their borrowers by investigating the loan pricing effect of banks' voting stakes in borrowers. We exploit the fact that banks may hold shares of firms in a fiduciary capacity to identify a clean... View Details
      Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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      • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
      • Case

      Covisint (A): The Evolution of a B2B Marketplace

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler--the three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that dominated the automotive industry throughout the 20th century--launched Covisint in February 2000 as an industry supply chain exchange that would drive out cost... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Supply Chain Management; Business Startups; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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      • December 1984
      • Case

      Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek

      By: Shoshana Zuboff
      Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost... View Details
      Keywords: Management Teams; Success; Cost Management; Technology; Pulp and Paper Industry
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer-Packaged Foods Industry

      By: Amanda Rischbieth, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
      We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the consumer-packaged goods industry. We design a methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates on customer... View Details
      Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Nutrition Database; Nutritional Information; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods; IWAI; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nutrition; Product; Safety; Consumer Products Industry
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S.

      By: Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu
      We study securities litigation risk faced by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We take into account not only the propensity for foreign firms to commit violations of U.S. securities laws but also the costs that investors face when suing foreign firms. We find... View Details
      Keywords: Litigation Risk; Cross Listing; Bonding; 10b-5; Securities Litigation; U.S.Listing; Class Action; Risk and Uncertainty; Debt Securities; Globalized Firms and Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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      • May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
      • Case

      Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens

      By: Willy Shih
      This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
      Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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      • March 2001 (Revised February 2009)
      • Case

      HDFC (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
      The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the emergence of intense competition at the end of the 1990s. Having founded the industry and dominated it for nearly 20 years, the well-respected company faces a bevy of new... View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Management Style; Management Teams; Competition; Financial Services Industry; India
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      • 20 Feb 2015
      • News

      Yes, Your Uber Driver Is Judging You

      • 2020
      • Article

      Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

      By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
      In this essay, we explore how strategic management research and practice could benefit from considering the benefits and challenges obtainable through working with user communities. User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and... View Details
      Keywords: User Communities; Innovation; Open Source; Collaboration; Cooperative Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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      • December 1980 (Revised January 1994)
      • Case

      International Foodstuffs

      By: David E. Bell
      Describes three fairly routine instances in which considerations of risk exposure in foreign exchange are necessary. The three are a delayed payment for a grain shipment, a foreign subsidiary facing devaluation of its domestic currency, and a foreign acquisition. The... View Details
      Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk and Uncertainty; International Relations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Money; International Finance; Financial Services Industry
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      • 06 Dec 2021
      • News

      Truth Be Told

      Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.... View Details
      Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
      • 17 May 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

      Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim