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  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

of "BO," "Undie Odor," and "Dishpan Hands," and to market the cures in the form of Lifebuoy and Lux Flakes. By the end of the 1930s sales exceeded $90 million, and in 1946 they reached $150 million. By the interwar years soap had a firmly... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • Fall 2013
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In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

By: Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Oil Companies; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; Brazil; Mexico; Norway
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Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini. "In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms." Cornell International Law Journal 46, no. 3 (Fall 2013): 569–610.
  • December 2010
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The Case for Professional Boards

By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).

    From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China

    The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives, and the creation of investment opportunities through stock markets indicate China’s movement from a socialist, state-controlled economy... View Details

    • November 2002 (Revised February 2010)
    • Case

    Intel Corporation: 1968-2003

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, David B. Yoffie and Sasha Mattu
    Describes three stages in Intel's history: the initial success and then collapse in DRAMs and EPROMs, its transition to and dominance in microprocessors, and its move to become the main supplier of the building blocks for the Internet economy. Allows a rich discussion... View Details
    Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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    Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, David B. Yoffie, and Sasha Mattu. "Intel Corporation: 1968-2003." Harvard Business School Case 703-427, November 2002. (Revised February 2010.)
    • 20 Sep 2017
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    Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

    • Spring–Fall 2015
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    Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? I offer evidence of some important shortfalls, then consider how the legal system might appropriately respond. Though it is tempting to forgive many violations in light of... View Details
    Keywords: Transportation Network Company; Uber; Lyft; Regulation; Lawfulness; Transportation Networks; Laws and Statutes; Law Enforcement; Transportation Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    Edelman, Benjamin. "Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks." Competition Policy International 11, no. 1 (Spring–Fall 2015).
    • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
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    The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
    The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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    Paine, Lynn S., and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci. "The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-047, December 2019. (Revised June 2024.)
    • 2009
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    Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

    By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

    Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

    Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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    Dujarric, Robert, and Andrei Hagiu. "Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-114, April 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
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    Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation

    By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon
    Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of innovation. In this review paper we consciously move beyond the Schumpeterian tradition of... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Strategy
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    Ahuja, Gautam, Curba Morris Lampert, and Vivek Tandon. "Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation." Academy of Management Annals 2 (2008): 1–98.
    • March 2010 (Revised January 2012)
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    Microsoft's IP Ventures

    By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate venture capital. The program provides "IP for equity" and has proven very successful in achieving its main... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Intellectual Property; Rights; Software; Washington (state, US)
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    Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Microsoft's IP Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 810-096, March 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
    • March 1999
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    City of Charlotte (B)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    This case shows how two operating departments-transportation and police-translate the high-level corporate scorecard for the city into departmental balanced scorecards. The transportation department follows a highly structured approach designed to link initiatives... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Global Strategy; National Security; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Design; Technology Adoption; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry
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    Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (B)." Harvard Business School Case 199-043, March 1999.
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    Culture Is Not the Culprit: When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business Is Broken

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague
    When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription. That's what most everyone said GM needed to do after its recall crisis in 2014—and ever since, CEO Mary Barra has been focusing on creating "the right environment" to promote... View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Cultural Reform; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Business Processes
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    Lorsch, Jay W., and Emily McTague. "Culture Is Not the Culprit: When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business Is Broken." R1604H. Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 96–105.
    • February 2015 (Revised August 2016)
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    Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
    "Not another Bochum." Nokia Board Chairman Jorma Ollila was clear in the goals he set for the 2011 restructuring that Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, had decided was necessary to address the dramatically changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones... View Details
    Keywords: Layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Business or Company Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Restructuring; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry
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    Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-002, February 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
    • 14 Oct 2010
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    Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

    Keywords: by Andrew Hill & David Thomas; Sports
    • 04 Nov 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Real Cost of Bribery

    analyze the negative effects of bribery on corporate performance. The results of his study, detailed in the paper Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery, surprised him. As it turns out, the biggest problem with View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 2013
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    Managers and Market Capitalism

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna
    In a capitalist system based on free markets, do managers have responsibilities to the system itself? If they do, should these responsibilities shape their behavior when they are engaging in the political process in an attempt to structure the institutions of... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Economic Systems; Managerial Roles; Government and Politics
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    Henderson, Rebecca, and Karthik Ramanna. "Managers and Market Capitalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-075, March 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
    • 2019
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    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Design; Management Teams; Business History
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    Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-033, September 2019.
    • October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
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    OAO YUKOS Oil Company

    By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joshua N. Rosenbaum
    This case presents the history and current position of Russia's second-largest oil company, YUKOS, as it seeks listing on the NYSE as an ADR and attempts to rid itself from a punishing "governance discount" by the capital markets. This is a company with a history of... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Capital Markets; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Russia
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    Salter, Malcolm S., and Joshua N. Rosenbaum. "OAO YUKOS Oil Company." Harvard Business School Case 902-021, October 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
    • 07 Sep 2012
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    IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property

    Keywords: by Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Willy C. Shih
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